- What's up creators, if it's Tuesday, it's news day.
Let's get in to this week's updates.
Let's talk about everybody's favorite topic, money.
Now, as you know, we're constantly working
to find ways to improve the creator experience.
And in this case, to make it easier for you to see
and manage your YouTube earnings and AdSense.
Now, today, what happens is your YouTube
and AdSense earnings are paid
into one single payments account.
And once the balance hits $100, earnings are disbursed.
But starting in March
and rolling out over the next couple of months,
users will begin to see their YouTube earnings
paid into a separate payments account.
Now, if you only use AdSense for YouTube earnings,
this change is simply cosmetic.
But here is one important thing to note.
Your YouTube payments account will appear
on a dedicated YouTube homepage within AdSense,
and you'll be able to find this
within the dropdown on the AdSense payments page.
Let us know if you have any questions
in the comments below.
Next up we wanna talk
about encouraging more respectful interactions on YouTube.
Now, what we're doing here is bringing a feature
that's currently available on mobile to desktop.
Now, what this feature does
is notifies a user before they make a comment
that the comment may be considered offensive to other users.
It'll remind them that the comment will be viewable
by all users on the platform.
And within that reminder notification,
it's also gonna do two things.
It's gonna give the user the opportunity
to reflect before they post,
as well as allow them the opportunity
to view community guidelines.
Now, as ever you're asking, what's the goal here?
Well, it's obviously to encourage respectful interactions
on the platform, but it's also to protect our creators
and their viewers from comments that may be offensive.
Now, as I said, this feature's already available on mobile
and we're bringing it to desktop.
First of all, in English and Spanish languages,
but we're hoping to roll it out
to more languages in future, so stay tuned.
As ever, let us know if you've any feedback
or questions in the comments below.
Next up, we wanna talk about spam best practices,
and you might ask why.
Well, as part of running this channel,
what the producer does is review all of the comments
underneath all of the videos on the channel.
I help out with that sometimes too.
And what she's found is we've recently gotten some comments
around spammy comments, but what we wanna do
is go through some best practices for now.
So, you'll have to bear with me
'cause I'm gonna be reading a little bit more
than I normally do, but I wanna get all of this right.
So let's run through it.
First topic is holding potentially inappropriate comments
for review allows you to hold potentially
inappropriate comments for review.
Again, make it easier for you to moderate comments
and control the tone of your channel, really important.
Comments appear in your held for review tab.
You have the final decision as to whether you approve,
hide, or report these comments.
And remember, you can choose to hide this tab entirely
if you don't wanna see the comments at all.
Next up, let's talk about text-based spam only.
Now, what you're gonna wanna do here is add words
or phrases to your blocked words list,
a list of words and phrases
that you don't want to appear on your channel.
Comments containing or closely matching these terms
will be held for review in studio,
and you can choose later to remove or to publish them.
Now, moving on to how to block a commenter
from your channel.
So you may use a feature to block a user from your channel.
And what that's gonna result in
is the comments that they write on your videos
will not be shown to other users.
You can of course change your mind,
and you can remove the user
from the hidden users list in your community settings.
But you're probably gonna wanna know
what happens when you actually block someone.
So, all previous comments from your videos
from that user are going to be removed,
or rather hidden from your channel within 48 hours.
The user will get no notification,
and they won't be aware that they're blocked.
Moving on to blocking comments with links.
Here you can hold comments that contain URLs for review
including live chat messages with URLs.
And then we wanna talk
about reporting spam or inappropriate comments
from the three dot menu in the comment itself.
The report or report a spam, or abuse option for comments
allows the community to control
the number of spam comments left on videos.
Another option is to add comment moderators.
This is where you can assign moderators to your channel
who can hold comments on your videos for review.
When one of these moderators
holds a comment on your channel,
watch page, or live chat,
it will be removed from public view
and you'll see it in your held for review tab
as removed by a moderator until you approve or remove it.
And finally, you can hold all comments for review.
This is where you can hold all of the comments for review
and only approve comments that you choose.
We hope this has been helpful.
Give us some feedback as well as check out
those links in the description below this video.
You'll find a ton more context and detail.
And that's about it for this week's news flash
from the creators of YouTube to YouTube creators.
We'll see you next week.