- What's up, creators.
Thank you for all your comments and feedback
on our updated profoundly policy.
If you miss the update, we'll leave it in the description.
For those of you who may be new here,
Creator Insider is a channel hosted by employees
on the tech and policy teams, here at YouTube.
We all have independent full-time jobs
but the goal here is to improve communication
and transparency with our creator community,
shed light on what we're working on, give more context
and background on policies and policy enforcement.
Keep those interested apprised of experiments, launches
and deprecations, both big and small,
and most importantly have an open
and frequent means of communication
for you to weigh in on what we're covering.
Now, if you've been watching for a while,
you know we have a wide variety of employees
spanning the company right here on the channel,
talking about their products and policies.
And all of us are interested and invested
in hearing your feedback.
So we've said it before and we'll say it again.
Your engagement with this channel means a lot to us
and we'd love for you to keep contributing your thoughts,
both positive and negative.
And in terms of content, every Tuesday we host this segment,
the Newsflash, which is comprised of creator centric updates
week to week.
And on Thursdays, we host a segment on a specific topic,
whether that be busting a myth we've heard
from the community, giving a sneak peek
on a feature or product we're ideating on.
Interviews with various execs and creators
or best practices.
So without further ado, let's get into this week's updates.
First up, a few weeks ago, we covered the expansion
of our feature called Multi-Language Audio,
in an interview with Mr. Beast.
If you missed it, we'll leave it in the description.
While the team is working to bring MLA to more creators,
we wanted to update you on the metrics we're launching
alongside this feature.
We're introducing new metrics in YouTube analytics
for those who've dubbed their videos
in multiple languages.
New metrics will break down viewer activity
by audio language and geography.
So think views, watch time, average view duration et cetera.
The goal is to help creators better understand how
their audience is ingesting their content when they use MLA.
Creators will be able to find these new metrics
under a new audio track report
at the video and channel level.
Let us know if you have any questions.
Speaking of Mr. Beast, we got a bunch of comments
from folks who said they really enjoyed
hearing directly from him.
So we wanted to highlight an interview,
our director of search and discovery,
Todd did with Mr. Beast a few years ago
on how to get more views.
We'll leave it in the description
if you'd like to check it out.
Next, users are now able to share links
to audio pivot pages on shorts.
If you're an artist, these links provide an easy
promotional lever, or if you're a creator,
a quick way to view and share content created to a sound.
Links can be shared by tapping the three dots
on the pivot page and then share.
And lastly, today I wanted to finish up
with a few frequently asked questions we heard
about profanity to make sure they didn't get lost
in individual comment responses,
so everybody can benefit from the information.
Some of you asked do the profanity guidelines
we outlined last Tuesday apply to shorts as well as VOD?
Yes, they apply to both.
One part of our intent behind the original update
was to shorten the window where we look for profanity
from the first 30 seconds to just the first 15 seconds,
increasing monetization opportunities
for all creators short and long form.
We heard your feedback though
and our own enforcement data backed up what you were saying.
So we updated our guidelines.
So the window in video where you need
to concern yourself is the first seven seconds.
Outside of that, you just need to keep profanity
out of the title and thumbnail.
Next, what is considered repetitive use throughout a video
when it comes to harsh profanity?
This is a great question.
Basically, if your video is laced with profanity
for example, the majority of your video contains profanity.
It's used repetitively throughout.
Fuck this, fuck that, fuck everything.
That kind of content.
Lastly, some of you asked about re-reviews.
We're re-reviewing all videos that were demonetized
under the previous update from November.
Any video impacted, so they had seen a yellow icon
for a violation of our profanity policy
after the November update will be re-reviewed by March 10th.
If you feel strongly, we've made an error,
contact support and they'll escalate the videos to my team
and we'll get them reviewed once more.
It might be worthwhile waiting until the end of the day
on March 10th before contacting us.
One thing to consider though is
whether there is an alternate violation,
for example adult content or violence.
If you see that feedback in studio
even if the video is no longer violative
of our profanity guidelines, it will remain yellow
as there's that alternate violation present.
And that's it for this week's news flash
from the creators of YouTube to YouTube creators.
We'll see you next week.