- Hello, Insiders, newsflash time.
First item,
the option to use the classic upload flow
will start to be removed very gradually.
I think we're staring with about 1%.
As you may recall, the new upload flow,
the number one complaint about it
was that it was not possible to do bulk uploads.
And now that has been added.
We've been getting great feedback,
so we're getting ready to retire the classic uploads flow.
So, if you have any feedback on that new uploads flow,
let us know in the comments below.
But so far, we've been hearing pretty good feedback,
and we're pretty excited about its improved reliability
over the classic uploads flow.
Next, a longstanding feature request
that we've been hearing for years is to make it easier
to know when your channel's audience is online at YouTube.
Obviously, if you're trying to schedule a premiere
or a livestream,
knowing if there's a certain day of the week
or time of day when they're not online
to avoid those kind of cold spots could be useful.
Actually, we did a sneak peek
about that feature a few weeks ago.
And we started rolling it out very gradually,
but now it's available to all 100% of creators.
So, check it out.
Super cool feature.
Might help you as you plan when to make your content
especially if it's live content available to your audience.
As a reminder, if you're scheduling a regular video upload
like a video on-demand,
that one you may not need to worry
as much about publish time
since the longterm performance has not been proven
to be related to what day
or time of week a video is uploaded.
But certainly if you're doing a livestream or a premiere,
something to keep in mind.
Next, as a reminder,
we're continuing to roll out the optional setting
that holds potentially inappropriate comments for review
as the default for channels
to help creators manage their comments at scale
and improve the quality
of the conversations on your channel.
We plan to finalize this rollout in the next few weeks.
You'll see a message in YouTube Studio
when the setting has been enabled for your channel.
This setting is available to all channels already.
You can turn it on or off at any time
with the instructions that are linked below.
When we first launched this feature,
enabled channels experience a 75% drop in flagged comments.
And over the past two years,
we've had teams focus on expanding the feature
to cover 13 languages as well as improved accuracy.
Link below for more information about this important
hold-potentially-inappropriate-comments feature.
Next, YouTube has removed live DVR capabilities
from HTML 5 in iOS,
mainly mobile web.
This means that a user will no longer be able
to seek backwards during a live event on those devices.
You know, the goal is
to deliver the best playback experience possible,
and this functionality sees very low usage
and adversely affects other core features
of a YouTube Live playback experience,
so we've chosen to retire it for the moment.
Next, scheduling community posts is now available
on the desktop web main app.
This launch allows creators
to draft community posts ahead of time
and specify that future publishing date.
It has been requested quite a bit,
so thank you for all the feedback.
We heard you, and the team has launched that feature.
Next, you may recall back in early April,
we were part of an experiment around video chapters.
You may have even spotted them
on Creator Insider Newsflashes, including this one.
We've seen a lot of positive creator and viewer feedback,
so we wanted to let you know how to opt in to this feature
as everyone will be getting access in a few weeks.
So, some details.
All you have to do is ensure
that if you have these timestamps in your description,
make sure that the first timestamp listed
in the video description starts at 0:00
and that your video has at least three timestamps
or chapters with each chapter being 10 seconds or longer.
You can just look in the description below
to see how we do it if that doesn't make any sense.
Now, if for some reason you use timestamps
in your description, but you don't like our chapter feature
where we kind of make it easier
for viewers to jump and visualize it,
you can disable it.
You can basically opt out.
And all you need to do is adjust the first timestamp
in your video description to be something other than 0:00.
For example, you could just change it to 0:01,
and that will indicate to us that,
hey, this video doesn't want the chapter feature enabled.
And you'll just kind of appear
like you've done an old-school mode.
If you have questions or feedback about that feature,
please leave it in the comments below.
We'll be sharing it with the team.
And lastly, this week's newsflash trivia.
First, let's acknowledge last week's winner or winners.
The question, as a reminder,
was if you wanted to get a sense of a channel's reach,
the size of its total audience,
what metrics would you look at?
And the hint was that subscriber count,
while it is very easy remember
and very visible and something we all know and think about
is actually not the best measurement
of your channel's actual audience.
For a variety of reasons, there are better metrics.
And there were two potential answers.
One was, okay, let's say you don't have access
to that channel's YouTube analytics.
You're just, like a main app, like just a viewer
looking at someone else's channel.
The first person to guess correctly
in that case was Awesome Wood Things,
and the answer was views.
So if you look at a channel,
and you look at their last few videos,
and you look at typically how many views they get,
that's generally a much better indicator of the reach
and how many people are kind of actively watching
this channel's content than the subscriber count.
The next is, what if you do have access to internal metrics,
you do have access to the YouTube analytics
for your channel.
What number or metric would you look at
to get a sense of the reach of your channel?
And the first person to guess that was
Fully Involved Media Group,
and the answer is unique viewers,
which is a metric we launched a couple years ago.
But many people may not know about it.
So if you go to YouTube Studio,
and you go to Analytics, and then you go to Audience,
you'll see a unique viewer's metric.
And if you just say like the last 28 days,
that's pretty much the best indication
of the general order of magnitude size of your audience,
which in some cases is actually bigger
than the sub count, some cases not.
But that's really a very good way
to think about the size of your audience.
Okay, so congrats to both Awesome Wood Things
and Fully Involved Media Group.
With that, I'll just say goodbye and keep it real.