Stream Across Formats, Paid vs Organic Metrics, Gifts in Taiwan, Edit with AI, YT Help Chat, and More!

[00:00] a program manager working on our product team here at YouTube It's Tuesday, it's news day, so let's get into it.

[00:12] to easily stream across formats Now you can automatically generate a vertical layout from

[00:24] your horizontal live stream directly in the live control room. and more time for you to focus on your content. We're building this for simplicity and scale, helping more creators reach a wider audience.

[00:39] and pick the dual stream toggle from the layout settings. Next, your horizontal feed, which you can preview when you're ready.

[00:52] Stay tuned for updates in the coming months for more crop templates Up until now, creators were unable to see paid versus organic metrics broken down in YouTube analytics.

[01:08] Now, creators will be able to filter and see metrics like views, engaged views, likes, comments, shares, and watch time split from unpaid sources, and promoted content.

[01:24] creators can more accurately measure the impact of both their organic content strategy and paid promotions. how they want to grow their channel organically, or use

[01:39] Promote. Many creators have questions about advertising, whether it's a brand using their content in an ad campaign Promote. It's a topic with misconceptions that can cause creators to hesitate.

[01:55] which is will advertising hurt my channel's organic performance? and its performance as a paid ad are two separate processes.

[02:07] and here's why. Organic performance is determined by how the platform's algorithm recommends your video to viewers based on factors like watch time, This is your videos word of mouth reach determined by the quality

[02:24] Whether or not it also runs as an ad has no impact. Paid ad performance is determined by the budget and targeting settings. Either you via promote or a brand pays to get your video in front of a new,

[02:38] targeted audience that your channel might not have reached on its own. metrics in YouTube analytics, including both organic and paid, you may see lower numbers in audience retention and click through rate. This is

[02:52] of new audiences, which may engage To better understand your paid versus organic breakdown, you can now use the new metrics in YouTube analytics that we mentioned earlier.

[03:07] The team is happy to dive deeper into questions you have about ads or promote, we launched an improvement to text only quiz posts that allowed creators to the multiple choice answers in their quizzes. This feature was available

[03:23] and we're happy to share that it's now available to creators using iOS as well. to multiple choice answers at the time of quiz creation by clicking

[03:35] We've rolled out edit with AI, which helps you transform your raw footage into a compelling first draft. arranging the best moments from your footage into a coherent story with music

[03:51] and effects, so you have a starting point to refine and personalize. down the time it takes to generate a first draft. It even has unique Hindi voiceover styles like a cricket commentator

[04:05] You can use edit with AI in both the YouTube create app on Android for most creators in the coming weeks.

[04:17] Download the YouTube create app and stay tuned for more updates. help chat that surfaces help center content to provide instant support to share that we're launching it to more creators.

[04:32] and quicker for creators to resolve channel issues via troubleshooting policy and technical issues similar to what you'd find in our help center.

[04:47] support agent for further assistance, to speak to an agent through YouTube, help chat, type speak to an agent, or similar phrases to be transferred. information about account settings

[05:03] studio, for security reasons, it can not directly make changes to an account. analyzing your channel's performance,

[05:15] you can use our tools in studio like the inspiration tab or Ask Studio, We'll leave more information below. The YouTube help chat

[05:27] with their language preference set to English, and is gradually being rolled out to creators in all regions apart from the EU, UK and Switzerland. beginning with Spanish and Portuguese.

[05:42] We're launching Super Resolution, and improve video quality of new uploads and some existing videos.

[05:55] Why a significant portion of older video content exists in lower resolutions, and this negatively impacts the viewing experience, especially on larger, Super resolution will automatically upgrade eligible new and existing videos.

[06:10] Originally uploaded in 240 to 7 £0.20 to HD resolution of up to 1080p, Super resolution is on by default, and creators have the option to opt out.

[06:24] This setting can be managed in YouTube studio on desktop. Additionally, we're increasing the file size limits for video thumbnails from 2 to upload ultra high resolution thumbnails that look great on 4K TVs.

[06:40] We've also begun testing expanding the file upload size for long form videos. if you participate in a fundraising campaign, watch page on your TV.

[06:54] of your living room. We'll leave more information below, Lastly, we're bringing gifts and jewels to Taiwan.

[07:06] Up until now, these features were only available in the US. As a reminder, viewers can purchase jewels to send virtual gifts on vertical livestreams. on the number of jewels redeemed for gifts. We'll leave more information below.

[07:21] From the creators of YouTube to YouTube creators. We'll see you next week.