Main topic: YouTube announces expanded suite of creation tools for YouTube Shorts to compete with TikTok and Instagram Reels.
Key points:
1. YouTube Shorts is now being watched by over 2 billion logged-in users each month.
2. New tools include Collab for side-by-side videos, Green Screen for background effects, Cut for snipping clips, and Q&A sticker for audience interaction.
3. YouTube will test a mobile-first vertical live experience to help live creators get discovered in the Shorts feed.
4. YouTube will insert live videos in the Shorts feed, similar to TikTok, and lower eligibility requirements for monetization.
5. New features aim to encourage inspiration, such as bundling audio and effects from videos being remixed and saving Shorts to playlists.
6. YouTube will soon test recomposition tools to turn horizontal videos into Shorts.
7. The changes come in response to recent updates from TikTok and Instagram to enhance their short-form video platforms.
8. YouTube Shorts has seen significant growth and positive trends in watch time and monetization.
YouTube Music introduces a new personalized TikTok-style feed called Samples. The feed shows short-form video previews of songs, allowing users to swipe to view other songs, add songs to playlists, and create Shorts using the track.
Main topic: YouTube Music launches a new TikTok-style short-form personalized video feed called "Samples" to help users discover new music.
Key points:
1. Users can swipe vertically in the Samples feed to discover songs and music videos.
2. The feed encourages interaction with the song and provides options to watch the full music video or live performance.
3. YouTube Music plans to explore incorporating short-form discovery in other parts of the app and roll out new experiences to discover new artists and music.
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YouTube Shorts, the platform's short-form video feature, is causing internal concerns about cannibalizing the core long-form video business due to a lack of consumer appetite and preference for short-form content, impacting ad revenue and click-through rates for advertisers.
YouTube now allows creators to link their Shorts videos to other videos on their channel, enabling them to drive viewers to long-form content, additional Shorts, livestreams, and more.
YouTube has announced new AI-powered tools for creators, including AI-generated photo and video backgrounds, AI video topic suggestions, and music search, signaling a shift in how digital creators make and structure their content.
YouTube for Android is testing a redesign that replaces the Library tab with a new "You" tab, breaking consistency with other Google apps and reflecting a resemblance to social media apps like Instagram.
YouTube is introducing several new features and design updates, including stable volume, bigger preview thumbnails, the ability to cancel a scrub, a lock screen feature, sparkling animation for "Subscribe" and "Like" buttons, rotating top comments, and a combined Library and account page called "You."
YouTube is introducing various mobile-based playback and creator-friendly features, including the ability to increase playback speed with a tap and hold, stable volume to reduce volume differences, the option to search for a song by playing or humming, a screen lock feature, the combination of the Library tab and account page into a new "You" tab, highlighting "like and subscribe" buttons when mentioned in videos, rotating top comments, and updating the video description menu for smart TVs.
YouTube has rolled out dozens of new features for its mobile app, including stable volume, voice recognition for identifying songs, bigger preview thumbnails, a lock feature for the video player, and animated Like and Subscribe buttons, as it cracks down on ad blockers.
YouTube is introducing new tools that allows creators to add timestamps to products in their videos, giving them control over when shopping buttons appear and helping them earn revenue from older content.
