Category: YouTube

• May 25, 2021

  YouTube Shorts Permissions – What It Is and Why YouTube Dropped the Ball

  A few “short” weeks ago, a strange option started showing up in creator’s video settings. A small section that was titled “Shorts Permissions”. The short paragraph explanation was finished off with a bold, already checked check box that clearly stated “Allow people to sample this content”. Well the mysterious appearance of this on creator’s video…
• March 7, 2021

  How to Upload YouTube Shorts – Early 2021 Edition

  Since the latter part of 2020, YouTube have been pushing a new type of content on their platform called Shorts. Shorts are meant to be a competitor to the hugely popular Tik Tok platform that has been taking the world by storm in the last year or two. Other platforms are also weighing in with…
• October 12, 2020

  YouTube Studio Updated With Channel Customization Menu

  Over the last few weeks, YouTube have been rolling out a new menu in creator’s Studio dashboard. This menu item called Customization combines all the channel layout features into one central location. I was fortunate to be one of the earliest channels to receive the update as it rolled out over a 2 week period.…
• June 3, 2020

  YouTube Chapters – Your Quick-Start Primer

  

  Very recently, YouTube have rolled out a new feature to creators to enhance their viewer’s experience on YouTube in navigating videos – Chapters. Chapters are, as the name implies, sections of your video divided into topics, points, or other logical separation of thoughts within a piece of content. Chapters appear as clickable elements as you…
• April 8, 2020

  Schedule On Desktop, Go Live on Mobile!

  This one is for all you YouTubers out there! Ever wanted to schedule your live stream in advance from your YouTube dashboard on your main computer, but plan to stream when out and about on your mobile? Well you CAN! In this video, I show you how step by step. This is what you’re going…
• March 19, 2020

  YouTube’s New End Screen Editor – Tutorial

  In the ever inevitable march towards the new YouTube Studio becoming the one and only creator tool, YouTube have recently released a fresh End Screen editor for Studio. In the video below, I walk through the new layout and show how easy it is to add videos, playlists, links and subscribe icons to your video’s…
• March 6, 2020

  Creator Insider Tom Leung Hints at New Features Coming to Studio

  In a recent Twitter discussion, Tom Leung, Director of Product Management at YouTube shared some insights into possible upcoming features for YouTube Studio. One is imminent, and the other is some ways off. Firstly, just around the corner is the ability to bulk upload, a feature that was in Studio Classic, but not seen in…
• February 11, 2020

  Don’t Lose Your YouTube Channel!

  As we entered into 2020, there has been a sizeable up-tick in reports of channels that have been hacked, taken over by undesirables, wreaking havoc over someone’s pride and joy. YouTube has been hard pressed to help these creators due to the volume of cases and being under resourced. There have been reports that it…
• November 17, 2019

  YouTube Roll Out COPPA Compliance Requirements to All Creators

  Earlier this week, YouTube released a video for all creators on the platform instructing them to now flag their content as “made for kids” or “not made for kids” in response the changes to be compliant with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). This video, subsequent documentation and the resulting discussion, videos, etc. have…
• August 23, 2019

  First-Look: YouTube Upload Beta

  Recently, YouTube released a new beta for their upload flow, as part of the continuing roll-out of their Studio Beta product. In short, its an updated UI that encapsulates the upload process into 3 tabs. In the video below, I walk through the process as I take my first “look” at the new feature.