Category YouTube

YouTube’s looking to add in more long ad breaks in order to facilitate bigger blocks of uninterrupted content within its Connected TV experiences. Late last year, YouTube announced that it had begun testing longer ad breaks in CTV, because according…

YouTube’s looking to capitalize on the popularity of Shorts by promoting longer video clips within the Shorts feed. Which seems to contradict the whole concept, but with Shorts generating 70 billion views daily, it also makes some sense that YouTube…

An article from The platform’s creator liaison has produced informative clips about the algorithm, thumbnail strategies, how to use Shorts to grow and more. Looking to get a better understanding of YouTube’s systems, and how you can ensure that your…

For those creators who’ve been asking, YouTube is not planning to enable custom thumbnails for Shorts clips at this stage, but it is working on a related solution that’s pretty similar either way. Custom thumbnails enable YouTubers to create specific…

YouTube’s trying another way to integrate more social platform type elements, this time through a new Community Spaces test, which enables channel fans to engage and interact via text posts. As you can see in this example, posted by influencer…

YouTube’s rolling out some new features for Shorts, including a bunch of creative options to help customize and expand your Shorts usage. First off, YouTube’s adding auto layout, initially for Shorts created on Android, which aims to make it easier…

YouTube has made some improvements to its audio removal options for videos, in order to help creators address copystrikes, and keep their uploads active in the app. The new system utilizes improved AI for audio removal, which will give creators…

After rolling out @handles for channels back in 2022, YouTube is now expanding them to more languages, so that creators in more regions can utilize their short channel listing. As you can see in this image, YouTube’s @handles will now…

VidCon is being held this week, and YouTube has published a new “Fandom” trends report to coincide with the event, and highlight to creators the importance of building community in the app. The 10-page overview includes a heap of insights…

YouTube will now enable creators to edit super long videos, which was previously not an option due to system capacity constraints, while it’s also improving its comment moderation and removal processes within YouTube Studio. First off, on long video edits.…