- I hope you're having a fantastic week.
I'd like to welcome you to "YouTuber News"
where I keep YouTubers like you
up-to-date with everything that impacts you
as a content creator.
Today, I've got some really big updates for you.
We've got some updates
for newer or smaller YouTube channels.
We've got some updates
for some integrations that YouTube has done.
We've got all kinds of great information
for you in today's show.
So to get us started,
the very first thing that I want to let you know about
is that when it comes to the Merch shelf.
YouTube has reduced the requirements of the Merch shelf
down to 1,000 subscribers.
So it used to be 10,000 subscribers that you needed
in order to get the Merch shelf.
So what the Merch shelf is if you're not familiar with that
is if you're watching this video right now
and you are in a location that shows it,
then you're going to see some things listed
underneath the video that you're watching right now.
That is what the Merch shelf is.
So if you are a YouTube content creator
that has over 1,000 subscribers
and you are in the partner program,
because that's also part of the requirements as well,
then you also get access to the Merch shelf
from today forward, which is awesome for you,
as a content creator, that maybe you just crossed
1,000 subscribers or something.
So that's really great news.
The next thing that we have on our list
is YouTube Content ID.
So when it comes to YouTube Content ID,
one of the things that is current, excuse me,
one of the things that's currently going on with that
is they have shortened the claims.
Let's see here,
the time that claimants have to appeal a dispute.
So one thing content creators always complained about
is when a copyright claim comes in and you dispute it,
it would take like 30 days
before you could know if you were in the clear or not,
if you disputed it.
Now, that has been reduced down to 30, or, I'm sorry,
down to seven days and you can also escalate
that whole entire process as well,
I've got more links to that
and everything that we're talking about today
down in the description of this stream right now.
In addition to the Content ID,
this one I'm really excited about,
is the integration with Shopify with YouTube.
Now what that is, what Shopify is
if you're not familiar with it,
is it's an E-commerce platform.
So with Shopify, if you have any types of products
that you sell from your YouTube channel,
digital downloads, things like that, or really t-shirts,
I mean, anything that you sell through Shopify,
you can now integrate your YouTube channel with Shopify
and you can have those things listed
right underneath the video.
So I'm in the process right now of setting mine up.
I ran into some glitches with it.
So it's me and a few other people that I know
have ran into a similar problem to where
they're having problems with things kind of syncing up.
And we're still trying to figure out
if it's on the Shopify end or on the YouTube end,
but that's what's going on right now with the Shopify
and a lot of people are just in there,
it's already working for them and everything's fine.
But in my case, I ran into some problems
and with some people that I know,
they also ran into some problems with it.
But the fact that this is now available,
it's really a game changer for content creators.
So let's say for example, you are somebody that has PDFs
that you make available for your viewers to download,
or you have crafting supplies that you sell
or something like that,
or any type of physical or digital product,
you can now make it available right within YouTube
and then they'll be able to
go ahead and make those purchases, which is great.
Another thing I wanna bring to your attention
is an update from last week.
So last week we mentioned that there was an update coming
to live streaming and that Barbara was going to,
who is a YouTube employee,
was going to be showcasing what that feature is.
She did and as you can see on the screen right here,
what it is is it's a stream-sharing option.
So that's gonna be available to content creators soon,
but she was just testing that out
and just giving us kind of a sneak peek
of what was going on in the back end there,
what the whole thing was about.
So if you wanna check that out, again,
you can look in the stream from last week
to see a direct link over to Barbara,
but I wanted to make sure that I gave you that update.
In addition to that, if you watch my live streams,
you hang out on my live streams,
my "Nimmin Live" live streams I do on Saturdays,
Rene Ritchie who comes in there quite a bit,
he is actually in there a lot for a period of time.
Now he comes in there from time to time,
but I wanna give him a high five and a fist bump,
because he is now the new YouTube Creator Liaison,
which is really cool.
So basically he works with YouTube
to best represent YouTube content creators
and help lean YouTube in the direction
of things that favor YouTube content creators.
So again, high five to you, Renee
for getting that gig, it's a sweet gig.
And I also wanna let you know that this coming Tuesday,
I'm gonna be live streaming on the StreamYard channel.
There's an integration between StreamYard
and TubeSpanner that I'm going to be revealing
over on the StreamYard channel this coming Tuesday.
So make sure that if you are a StreamYard user
or a TubeSpanner user
which if you are a YouTube content creator,
you should be checking out TubeSpanner,
we got links to them in the description as well,
but that integration's gonna be happening on Tuesday
where you're gonna be able to basically inject some things
into your StreamYard live streams.
Basically it's gonna help with your workflow.
So make sure that you show up in that particular stream
and you can go ahead and install TubeSpanner now
so you can be ahead of that if you are a StreamYard user.
In addition to that, I do wanna remind everybody
that we do have free resources for you for music
for your YouTube channel.
So if you do have anything
that you're wanting to add music to,
you can use Creator Mix, 100% free.
You can use that content or not the content,
but you can use the music
in your videos without any worries of copyright strike
so I wanna make sure that you know about that.
I also wanna let you know that if you have missed
any of these updates, and this is your first time
watching this content, I'm doing these every single week.
You can click into a playlist
of them right here, right there.
There we go, right over here on this side.
So go ahead and click into that
to stay up to date with everything
that is going on in case you missed anything in the past
and that's the news.
If I can just navigate over to this thing and close it.