YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki shared 3 letters to creators this year, in February, April, and November. They are the best way to acquire a feel of YouTube's priorities: "supporting creator as well as creative mortal success, improving communication as well as engagement, as well as living upward to our responsibility."
This twelvemonth the novel YouTube Studio (now the default. There are novel features for managing your videos, agreement your channel stats as well as much more.
Here are some of the features inwards YouTube Studio:
The new YouTube Live Control Room in YouTube Studio lets yous schedule, monitor as well as grapple your alive streams. It simplifies current creation past times letting yous job a completed current every bit a template for novel stream. You tin fifty-fifty acquire real-time information spell yous are streaming.
It's odd to study that Google has unopen downwards one of their messaging platforms, but that's the representative for YouTube. The YouTube Direct Messaging system was removed inwards September.
While YouTube has changed their individual messaging several times over the years, replacing Inbox with Google+-based Messages inwards 2014, which were as well as then replaced past times the novel DMs in 2018, at that topographic point has e'er been some way to privately communicate.
Now YouTube doesn't offering whatsoever way to privately message a channel.
Why this change? YouTube is going to focus on "improving populace communications".
There is no way but about the fact that sometimes YouTube tin live an unpleasant place. Over the years channels have got built viewership past times posting hateful pranks, loathe speech, harassment as well as bullying other creators, as well as posting misinformation.
One of YouTube's goals for 2019 was to piece of work on the "Four Rs of Responsibility": Removing harmful content; Raising authoritative content; Rewarding trusted, eligible creators as well as artists; and Reducing borderline content as well as harmful misinformation
There have got been a issue of updates towards those goals:
This twelvemonth YouTube introduced several tools to become far easier for creators to bargain amongst copyright claims.
For channels inwards the YouTube Partner Program, at that topographic point are at nowadays novel ways to earn money, inwards improver to ads:
There were also a issue of other creator updates that don't check neatly into other categories. The changes that caused the most commotion: rounding off publicly displayed subscriber counts, as well as new stricter verification cheque score eligibility requirements (which were to a greater extent than oftentimes than non reversed).
These are the top updates inwards roughly chronological order:
One of the large changes inwards 2020 volition live the limited features on videos "made for kids", which YouTube is required to construct to comply amongst COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act).
Videos that were "made for kids" volition non have got personal advertising (but it tin have got non-personalized ads), comments, a channel branding watermark, information cards or terminate screens, alive chat or alive chat donations, playback inwards the miniplayer, or a merch shelf.
If an entire channel is "made for kids" it volition non have got channel Memberships, Stories, a Community tab or Notification bell.
Understandably, channels that construct content for kids are concerned. And other creators aren't certain whether their videos are "made for kids" or not.
Those changes volition become into final result this coming week, as well as hopefully it won't live every bit disastrous every bit some fear.
But at that topographic point have got been a issue of changes over the past times twelvemonth meant to protect kids on YouTube.
These are the biggest changes inwards 2019:
- The novel YouTube Studio
- The novel Live Control Room as well as demise of Hangouts on Air
- Removal of YouTube DMs
- YouTube policy updates but about harassment, violence as well as misinformation
- New tools to bargain amongst copyright claims
- New ways for YouTube Partners to earn money
- Other to channel as well as creator features
- Limited features on videos aimed at kids
There were also updates for viewers, including a redesigned homepage, the mightiness to VR on to a greater extent than platforms and the mightiness to watch YouTube on the Amazon Fire TV.
If yous are interested inwards trying novel features, cheque out YouTube New for desktop experiments yous tin try. You tin acquire almost electrical current experiments past times keeping an oculus on this thread inwards the YouTube forum. If yous have got an iPhone, yous tin also sign upward to live an iOS YouTube app beta tester.
The novel YouTube Studio
You may nevertheless involve to furnish to classic Studio to grapple your playlists or edit video endscreens as well as cards, but it is to a greater extent than oftentimes than non complete. And there a issue of features that are non available inwards classic at all.
Most creators nevertheless have got the pick to furnish to classic YouTube Analytics as well as Studio, but that volition become away at some dot inwards early on 2020.
Here are some of the features inwards YouTube Studio:
- The Copyright Match Tool lets yous come across a listing of reuploads of your videos. You tin as well as then produce upward one's heed whether to contact the uploader or submit a copyright complaint. This is alone available to channels inwards the YouTube Partner Program.
- There are new tools to aid yous bargain amongst copyright claims in YouTube Studio. You tin at nowadays come across copyright bang information on your YouTube Studio dashboard as well as yous tin filter your Video listing to notice your videos amongst copyright strikes or claims.
- importing videos from Google Photos. If your channel is inwards the YouTube Partner Program, yous tin manually add together advertizing breaks to longer videos during the upload process.
- You tin at nowadays filter your channel comments. The default shows yous comments that yous have got non yet responded to, but yous tin also filter past times subscription status, channel membership, or how many subscribers the commenter has. You may desire to pay special attending to comments from your pop subscribers.
- There is a new YouTube Partner Program Setup Page. If your channel is non yet inwards the YouTube Partner Program, it shows to a greater extent than accurate information almost your channel's populace watchtime hours. It also no longer requires linking AdSense until your channel is eligible for monetization.
- New channel permissions rolled out to a little per centum of channels. These allow yous give others access to your YouTube Studio at 4 unlike levels: manager, editor, viewer as well as viewer limited. I expression this to expand to to a greater extent than channels inwards 2020.
The novel Live Control Room
It is no longer possible to access the one-time YouTube Live Events page, which at nowadays redirects to the Live Control Room.
One of the casualties of the displace to Live Control Room was Hangouts on Air. That used the one-time classic Hangouts video telephone band interface to allow yous alive current amongst zero to a greater extent than than a figurer amongst a webcam as well as an cyberspace connection. That doesn't good every bit good exciting today, but was a game changer when it launched inwards 2011.
It's non every bit good surprising Hangouts on Air are no longer an option, every bit the platform hadn't been updated inwards years, as well as used now-gone Google+-based apps for some functionality. But still, YouTube's webcam alive streaming isn't the same.
It's non every bit good surprising Hangouts on Air are no longer an option, every bit the platform hadn't been updated inwards years, as well as used now-gone Google+-based apps for some functionality. But still, YouTube's webcam alive streaming isn't the same.
Mobile alive streaming also got a fleck to a greater extent than difficult. YouTube has limited mobile alive streaming to channels amongst at to the lowest degree M subscribers and shut downwards the YouTube Gaming app.
But on the addition side, whatsoever Super Stickers. Fans tin buy Super Stickers to postal service during alive broadcast or Premier alive chats.
Demise of YouTube DMs
While YouTube has changed their individual messaging several times over the years, replacing Inbox with Google+-based Messages inwards 2014, which were as well as then replaced past times the novel DMs in 2018, at that topographic point has e'er been some way to privately communicate.
Now YouTube doesn't offering whatsoever way to privately message a channel.
Why this change? YouTube is going to focus on "improving populace communications".
YouTube Policy Updates
One of YouTube's goals for 2019 was to piece of work on the "Four Rs of Responsibility": Removing harmful content; Raising authoritative content; Rewarding trusted, eligible creators as well as artists; and Reducing borderline content as well as harmful misinformation
There have got been a issue of updates towards those goals:
- Increased policy enforcement but about unsafe pranks
- Reducing recommendations for content that could "misinform inwards harmful ways"
- Updates to the loathe speech communication policy to encompass supremacist content, Sandy Hook denialism as well as more
- Building a toolkit to counter fierce extremism.
- Stronger rules against harassment as well as cyberbullying, including "malicious insults" based on "intrinsic attributes" as well as implied threats.
YouTube also increased enforcement of their policy prohibiting"fake engagement" by removing links promoting services that artificially inflate subscriber count, views or other engagement metrics. That includes purchased views or comments, or "Sub4Sub" services. Videos that promote those services may live removed, as well as final result inwards a Community Guidelines strike.
There has been some backlash against the changes, especially the broader anti-harassment policy, every bit some channels have got had multiple videos taken down.
On the flip side, YouTube has softened their policy against video game violence, treating it now similar other scripted violence.
YouTube revised the Community Guidelines Strike organisation at the commencement of the year, amongst the initiative off violation resulting inwards a warning, as well as progressively larger penalties amongst subsequent violations. Three strikes inside xc days, as well as you're out.
That agency policy changes should non final result inwards a channel beingness at nowadays penalized for content that was previously allowed (as long every bit it doesn't already have got a warning).
Whether the policy updates construct YouTube a nicer identify to hang out remains to live seen.
Image: Best practices for creators
There has been some backlash against the changes, especially the broader anti-harassment policy, every bit some channels have got had multiple videos taken down.
On the flip side, YouTube has softened their policy against video game violence, treating it now similar other scripted violence.
YouTube revised the Community Guidelines Strike organisation at the commencement of the year, amongst the initiative off violation resulting inwards a warning, as well as progressively larger penalties amongst subsequent violations. Three strikes inside xc days, as well as you're out.
That agency policy changes should non final result inwards a channel beingness at nowadays penalized for content that was previously allowed (as long every bit it doesn't already have got a warning).
Whether the policy updates construct YouTube a nicer identify to hang out remains to live seen.
Image: Best practices for creators
New tools for managing copyright claims
- Copyright holders tin no longer monetize manually claimed videos amongst unintentional job of music
- It's easier for Creators to resolve manual Content ID claims, because YouTube at nowadays shows timestamps of the manually claimed content. If a copyright holder claimed fifteen seconds of your 10 infinitesimal video, yous tin at nowadays easily notice that segment.
- To resolve a copyright claim on music, yous tin mute the claimed audio or replace the song. Or yous can use the novel Assisted Trim editing tool to chop out but the claimed content, which releases the claim.
- You tin at nowadays see copyright bang information on your YouTube Studio dashboard.
- You tin filter your video listing inwards YouTube Studio to notice your videos amongst copyright strikes or Content ID claims.
New ways to earn money
- For channels amongst Memberships enabled, yous tin now set Membership levels amongst customized perks, as well as produce exclusive member-only content. Non-gaming channels inwards the YouTube Partner Program amongst at to the lowest degree 30,000 subscribers tin enable Memberships.
- New Merch partners: Crowdmade, DFTBA, Fanjoy, Represent, Rooster Teeth. Channels amongst at to the lowest degree 10,000 subscribers as well as monetization enabled can add a Merch Shelf to their channel.
- Super Chat is at nowadays available inwards threescore to a greater extent than countries. Super Chat lets fans buy alive chat messages during alive broadcasts as well as Premieres.
- There are construct new Super Stickers that fans tin pay to postal service during alive chats. Super Stickers requires Super Chat to live enabled.
Other novel channel as well as creator features
There were also a issue of other creator updates that don't check neatly into other categories. The changes that caused the most commotion: rounding off publicly displayed subscriber counts, as well as new stricter verification cheque score eligibility requirements (which were to a greater extent than oftentimes than non reversed).
These are the top updates inwards roughly chronological order:
- The pick to automatically portion to Twitter as well as Google+ was removed.
- The last Google+ features were removed. That surprisingly also removed the mightiness to add together a channel icon as well as encompass fine art inwards the YouTube mobile app.
- The "Related Channels" listing was removed from channel pages. You tin nevertheless add together featured channels past times customizing your channel layout.
- YouTube started automatically asset potentially inappropriate comments for review. They study that subsequently this was enabled, channels saw a 75% decrease inwards the issue of comments flagged past times viewers. You tin disable this characteristic inwards your channel's comment settings.
- New specially formatted Learning Playlists launched for a little issue of educational channels, including including Khan Academy, TED-Ed, The Coding Train and Crash Course.
- Channels started displaying abbreviated subscriber counts, rounded off to 3 digits. If yous have got 10,427,356 subscribers, that displays every bit 10.4M. You tin nevertheless come across your ain channels total subscribers inwards YouTube Studio.
- Community contributions of subtitles as well as translations no longer automatically published due to "spam as well as abuse"
- Checkmark badge eligibility requirements, were tightened upward - pregnant many channels (like mine) would lose their badge. They mostly backtracked those changes. The alone departure at nowadays is a review when a channel reaches 100,000 subscribers. Channels that already have got the badge won't lose it.
- A novel hub for fashion as well as beauty content - YouTube.com/Fashion - launches
- There are new "Watch Later" video stickers for Stories. You tin alone job the sticker in ane lawsuit a calendar week to portion your ain videos. Stories are available to channels amongst at to the lowest degree 10,000 subscribers.
- More easily grapple your playlists. Sort playlists, invite collaborators or portion playlists amongst a few clicks.
- @mention other channels inwards video titles or descriptions. You involve to have got at to the lowest degree M subscribers to give or have mentions.
Limited features on videos aimed at kids
Videos that were "made for kids" volition non have got personal advertising (but it tin have got non-personalized ads), comments, a channel branding watermark, information cards or terminate screens, alive chat or alive chat donations, playback inwards the miniplayer, or a merch shelf.
If an entire channel is "made for kids" it volition non have got channel Memberships, Stories, a Community tab or Notification bell.
Those changes volition become into final result this coming week, as well as hopefully it won't live every bit disastrous every bit some fear.
But at that topographic point have got been a issue of changes over the past times twelvemonth meant to protect kids on YouTube.
- February: YouTube disables comments on millions of videos featuring kids; recommends asset comments for moderation
- April:
- June: YouTube outlines its policies to protect kids: younger minors are non allowed to alive current unless clearly accompanied past times an adult, requiring some users to confirm they are one-time plenty to job the platform, as well as reducing recommendations of videos featuring kids inwards "risky situations"
- August: YouTube began removing "mature" content targeting children
- September: YouTube announced their short town amongst the FTC,that they would care for all "children's content" every bit if kids are watching
- November: YouTube requires channels to betoken whether content is made for kids to comply amongst COPPA
- December: YouTube's comment on COPPA to the FTC
Previously
- Year inwards Review 2014: YouTube as well as Google+ closer than ever
- Year inwards Review 2015: YouTube
- Year inwards Review 2016: YouTube Creator updates - community, creativity, communication
- Year inwards Review 2017: YouTube Creators, Partners as well as Live Streamers
- Year inwards Review 2018: YouTube Partner Program tougher eligibility, novel features for all Creators
2019 Year inwards Review
- 2019 Year inwards Review: Google Products nosotros said farewell to
- 2019 Year inwards Review: New Google tools for Creators
- 2019 Year inwards Review: Goodbye Google+
- 2019 Year inwards Review: YouTube Studio, Policy, as well as Live Streaming
- 2019 Year inwards Review: Blogger Gets Mobile
- 2019 Year inwards Review: AdSense Account as well as Ad Updates
- 2019 Year inwards Review: Messaging is less messy (and Hangouts is nevertheless here)
