- YouTube have added some powerful new tools
along with updating some old ones
that are really gonna help you run your channel
more smoothly and build a stronger community.
It doesn't matter if you have one subscriber
or a million subscribers
every creator has access to these tools.
So let's get started.
(screams)
And let's be honest spam comments are nothing new,
especially ones about the best ways
to invest in cryptocurrency.
However, high profile YouTuber's
complaining about this problem
and how it's getting worse is new
and so YouTube have decided to act.
So if you go to settings in the YouTube Studio,
click on the community section, and then the defaults tab
you'll see this new checkbox called Increase Strictness.
This should improve the chances
of YouTube filtering out spams self-promotion and gibberish.
But there's only one way to really test this out,
isn't there?
Come on, do your worst.
So gonna live to regret that.
On a similar theme you can now set channel guidelines
that may pop up when a viewer post a comment
on one of your videos or during a live stream, live chat.
These custom guidelines
won't cause comments or live chat messages
to be automatically hidden or removed,
they'll instead help you set expectations
for comments that may get held
for review by you or your channel moderators.
Now, if you have a tendency to (beep) swear a lot
in your YouTube video
but you're more than happy for your audience
to enjoy the full experience of a language,
you may wanna check out this setting.
You'll find this under the automatic captions
in the advanced settings of the channel section
of the YouTube Studio settings.
This will ensure that YouTube's automatic captioning tool
will show you all of the words
you are willing to say on camera.
Toggling this feature on or off
will not impact the monetization of a video in any way.
But the video still may get flagged
for the language used because
it's got to go through the ad friendly guidelines.
Which you'll learn more about
when you're self certify your content.
Oh, and by the way, you do know that you can make any word
sound really inappropriate
if you put the (beep) sensor sound effect over it.
You can use sound effects for all sorts actually.
(screams)
Did you know that viewers can clip sections of your videos
and live streams and share them?
It doesn't download the video off of YouTube
create a brand new video or anything like that
but it does allow anyone
to potentially change the context of your video.
If you don't like the idea of people being able to do this
you can disable the functionality
through the channel advanced settings
and unticking this check box.
And you know what?
I should probably disable it
for this video for (beep) obvious reasons.
The children's online privacy protection act
means you have to declare whether
or not your content is made for kids.
Every time you upload a video, you'll be asked this question
unless you set your answer by default here.
And just to be clear,
YouTube won't simply take your answer at face value.
They will check your content,
so don't intentionally mislead them.
It could get you in a lot of trouble
including channel termination and possible fines.
Nope, I'm not gonna screen for that one.
Did you know that YouTube can now create
automatic video chapters or timestamps
if it has enough information in the video to do so?
This video, for example, has auto generated video chapters.
But if YouTube is doing a terrible job of this
or you prefer your viewers not jumping around your videos
and creating weird audience retention graphs
that look like this, you can turn the feature off
through the advanced settings of the upload default section
of the YouTube Studio settings.
Now then YouTube Shorts.
I found out something really interesting about Shorts
while researching this video.
But you can only access it
through the mobile YouTube Studio app.
It's this thing called remixes.
And it shows you when other creators are using your content
in their YouTube Shorts.
Yes, this is allowed and it's actually turned on by default.
If you really don't like the idea of random creators
being able to do this,
your best option is to select all your videos
through the content screen in the YouTube studio,
and then using the edit dropdown to select short sampling
and then changing everything to don't allow sampling.
Currently this Short sampling tool
only allows creators to sample the audio from your videos,
not the video itself.
But this setting will only protect your long form content.
Any creator can still sample the audio
from any of your YouTube Shorts.
And you can't do anything about it.
Bit of an older one this,
but it's nice free advertising for your website
and other social media handles.
Channel banner links can be set up
through the customization screen
basic info tab in the YouTube Studio.
Just make sure to toggle the links on banner function.
Some creators actually bake in a call to action graphic
on the banner because the channel banner crops in
on the mobile display where channel links
don't actually show.
Now on that same customization screen
is one of the most important settings
on your entire YouTube channel.
And if you screw it up,
I'm afraid you could lose absolutely everything.
Your contact email address is seen by everyone
which is great for business inquiries
but it's also a huge security risk.
So whatever you do do not make your contact
email address the same as your YouTube login email address.
What the (beep).
(screams)
My thoughts exactly.
Now, if you think that's all there is to know
about running a YouTube channel, you are sadly mistaken.
There are YouTube settings coming
out of a (indistinct) whatever that means.
And if you wanna find out on over 16 YouTube settings
that are really gonna help you maintain
and grow your channel check out this video over here.
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(screams)