[00:00] Hey Creators, let's dive into this month's&nbsp; Roundup. We're rolling out the new Likeness&nbsp;&nbsp; Detection feature in YouTube Studio. This&nbsp; tool is designed to help you detect, manage,&nbsp;&nbsp; and request the removal of unauthorized&nbsp; videos made with your facial likeness,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[00:14] giving you more peace of mind in protecting your&nbsp; likeness as AI content continues to evolve. You&nbsp;&nbsp; can find it in YouTube Studio by clicking on the&nbsp; content detection tab. Here you'll see a sub tab&nbsp;&nbsp; called likeness. Note that before YouTube can&nbsp; start searching for videos with your likeness,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[00:29] you need to complete a one-time setup process.&nbsp; If your channel has multiple creators, each of&nbsp;&nbsp; them can set up likeness detection for themselves&nbsp; by following this process. The likeness detection&nbsp;&nbsp; tool is rolling out to all YPP creators by January&nbsp; 2026. For more info, check out the links in the&nbsp;&nbsp;
[00:44] description. A/B testing is now available to all&nbsp; eligible creators. This feature lets you choose&nbsp;&nbsp; up to three video titles and/or thumbnails to&nbsp; test with viewers to help pick your winner.&nbsp;&nbsp; You can use the A/B testing feature in YouTube&nbsp; Studio Desktop when publishing a new video or&nbsp;&nbsp;
[00:59] with an existing video. On the video details&nbsp; page, click the icon under the title section&nbsp;&nbsp; or the thumbnail section and choose which test&nbsp; you want to run. After you've added your titles,&nbsp;&nbsp; thumbnails, or combinations of both, click run&nbsp; test. A/B testing is only available for public,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[01:14] long- form videos, and the test will start once&nbsp; you publish your video. YouTube will show your&nbsp;&nbsp; chosen titles and/or thumbnails evenly across&nbsp; your video's audience and will select a winning&nbsp;&nbsp; thumbnail based on which one generates the most&nbsp; watch-time share. If there's a statistically&nbsp;&nbsp;
[01:28] significant result, you'll see a winner label.&nbsp; You can always manually select the video title&nbsp;&nbsp; and thumbnail you want to use. Check out the&nbsp; links below for more info and availability.&nbsp;&nbsp; Ask Studio is now available for eligible&nbsp; creators in the US. Ask Studio is a new&nbsp;&nbsp;
[01:42] conversational AI partner in YouTube Studio&nbsp; to help you get insights on your community,&nbsp;&nbsp; understand analytics, and find new inspiration.&nbsp; To find this feature, head to YouTube Studio,&nbsp;&nbsp; then click the Ask Studio icon. Stay tuned for&nbsp; more updates as we work to expand the availability&nbsp;&nbsp;
[01:57] of Ask Studio soon. Public to members-only live&nbsp; streams are now available to all creators with&nbsp;&nbsp; channel memberships. This feature allows you&nbsp; to easily transition a current public live&nbsp;&nbsp; stream into a special members-only live stream.&nbsp; Non-member viewers also have the opportunity to&nbsp;&nbsp;
[02:12] purchase a membership to unlock access. We hope&nbsp; this makes it easier to provide valuable perks&nbsp;&nbsp; to your members and grow your community. We're&nbsp; gradually rolling out an updated AI-enhanced&nbsp;&nbsp; version of comment reply suggestions and expanding&nbsp; this feature to more creators on Studio Mobile,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[02:27] Main App mobile, and Studio Desktop. The new and&nbsp; improved version of this feature provides editable&nbsp;&nbsp; suggestions in your own style and tone to help&nbsp; make it easier for you to respond to comments&nbsp;&nbsp; from your audience. Suggestions are available&nbsp; in the 100 plus languages supported by YouTube&nbsp;&nbsp;
[02:41] comments. Comment reply suggestions are completely&nbsp; optional and editable before posting. Simply tap&nbsp;&nbsp; the suggestion to edit it before replying. Try&nbsp; it out! We're changing the way tagged product&nbsp;&nbsp; timestamps show on your content on mobile to&nbsp; make them less disruptive for your viewers.&nbsp;&nbsp;
[02:55] Videos with timestamps will now have a shelf that&nbsp; expands below the video. To minimize disruption,&nbsp;&nbsp; the shelf will stay open during gaps between&nbsp; product timestamps and will continue to show&nbsp;&nbsp; the most recent product until the next appears.&nbsp; We hope this creates an even smoother shopping&nbsp;&nbsp;
[03:08] experience for your viewers. We've added some top&nbsp; requested features to Communities. Communities are now available on desktop. This update&nbsp; allows you and your viewers to view, post,&nbsp;&nbsp; and engage with communities content directly&nbsp; from your computers. You can now also access&nbsp;&nbsp;
[03:23] community settings and moderate posts from the&nbsp; communities page on desktop. You can now pin&nbsp;&nbsp; a post to the top of your community to set the&nbsp; tone and shape the vibe of your space. You can&nbsp;&nbsp; highlight a welcome post, important announcement,&nbsp; community guidance, or standout fan contribution.&nbsp;&nbsp;
[03:37] Creators and their community moderators can pin&nbsp; posts from the main YouTube app. We've also added&nbsp;&nbsp; the ability for creators to heart viewer posts&nbsp; in your communities to show appreciation and&nbsp;&nbsp; give your viewers recognition. Finally, sharable&nbsp; community links are now available on the main&nbsp;&nbsp;
[03:51] YouTube mobile app. You can access your link by&nbsp; heading to your community page, then tapping the&nbsp;&nbsp; three dot menu. From here, you can share your&nbsp; link on social channels to invite more people&nbsp;&nbsp; to participate in your community. That's it for&nbsp; this month. We'll see you next time. [Music]