YouTube Creators

We’re making it easier for you to define the culture of your channels by expanding access to channel guidelines for creators with intermediate and advanced features and, for the first time, bringing them to Communities. Channel Guidelines are still rolling out across Communities, and viewers should see it appear on your Community soon. This update is designed to help you foster the type of participation you want to see across comments, live chats, and your Communities.

More info 📝:
- You set the rules: You can create up to 3 channel guidelines. You have control over the rules you choose, provided they don’t violate YouTube’s Community Guidelines.
- Visibility for viewers: If you have channel guidelines enabled, viewers will see them the first time they comment, chat and post to your Community and at the top of your videos’ comment sections
- Acknowledgement: Before anyone can participate in your comments, live chats, or Communities, they must complete a one-time acknowledgment of your guidelines.
- Set-up: If you want to set up these guidelines for your channel, navigate to YouTube Studio on a desktop device > click on Channel Settings > Community Moderation > the Channel Guidelines tab.
- Eligibility: Channel guidelines are now available to creators with access to intermediate and advanced features on YouTube.
- You can also check out our Help Center article here: goo.gle/4qeQZT6

Channel guidelines make it easier for you to establish how you want people to treat each other in your comments, live chats, and Communities. We’re excited more creators will have access to this important feature - we’ll keep you updated on our expansion plans!

3 hours ago (edited) | [YT] | 791

YouTube Creators

We’re excited to announce that Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image), Google’s image editing model, is coming to YouTube. Use the feature to edit your image posts and connect with your audiences in new, creative ways.

Here are some ideas on how to use Nano Banana to edit the images in your YouTube posts:
- Picture yourself anywhere: Transport yourself to different locations, try on new outfits, switch up hairstyles, or time travel to different decades – all while keeping you and your own creativity as the main character
- Make specific edits: Need to remove a distracting object or change a background color? You can easily add, remove, or modify specific elements with just a prompt
- Refine your aesthetic: Restore older photos or adjust the vibe to match your channel’s branding

Note: Any post with images edited using Nano Banana in YouTube will automatically show a disclosure that the content is made with AI.

It’s easy to jump in and play around with Nano Banana:
1. Open the main YouTube app and tap Create > Post
2. Add an image to your post
3. Select the Edit button and describe the change you want to make
4. From there, Nano Banana will generate a draft. You can Save it or describe a new edit until it’s right

If you need some inspiration, try out these prompts:
- Change the background to a [location]
- Remove the [object] from my photo
- Give my [room] a [decor style] makeover

Nano Banana on YouTube is available to users who are at least 18 years of age and located in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and India. At this time, prompts must be entered in English. We plan to bring this feature to more locations and languages soon - so keep an eye out for news from us! Let us know what you think in the comments!

5 days ago | [YT] | 3,418

YouTube Creators

The YouTube Create iPhone app is launching to more creators around the world: support.google.com/youtube/answer/13952912!

If you’re a creator with access to the app, you can use it to take your videos to the next level and captivate your audiences:

- Enhance your videos with tools that remove distracting background noise, automatically add captions, create seamless visual transitions, and more
- Find the perfect soundtrack to your story using thousands of royalty-free and copyright-safe songs and sound effects
- Add a pop of personality to your videos by trying out the latest effects, filters, and animated stickers

…And more! The YouTube Create app is easy to use, and will empower you to create like a pro. It’s already available on Android in many countries, and now we’re excited to expand iPhones in new regions across the globe. We’re just getting started, stay tuned for more to come. Download the app today and let us know what you think 📱

Link to App Store: apps.apple.com/us/app/youtube-create/id6476327393?…

1 week ago | [YT] | 1,937

YouTube Creators

We’re launching the ability to stream across formats!

📹 Streaming across formats:
- This new feature automatically crops your horizontal live streams into vertical layouts within YouTube Studio, while also providing a single, unified chat experience for your viewers.
-The option to stream vertically is great for instances when the focus of your stream is centered in the frame (like just chatting, IRL, and facecam streams).
- Try it out from YouTube Studio on desktop devices:
Navigate to your Live Control Room > Stream Settings > Layout > Select “Dual stream.” After that, you can go Live from Studio and the vertical layout will be automatically generated from your horizontal stream.
- Viewers in the Shorts feed on mobile will be shown vertical streams. Outside of the Shorts feed, your audience will see the horizontal layout.

📱Vertical live streams in the Shorts feed:
- Vertical live streams are shown in the Shorts feed on mobile devices.
- This opportunity for connection across all the different places that people watch YouTube.

Streaming across formats is rolling out to all eligible creators over the next few weeks. Stay tuned for related updates in the coming months (crop templates to accommodate different content types, 3P encoder eligibility rollout, and more!)

1 week ago | [YT] | 3,579

YouTube Creators

Dream it, prompt it, create it ✨ Veo 3 in the YouTube Create app on Android enables you to turn your ideas into images and video with sound!

To try it out:
- Download the YouTube Create app: goo.gle/ytcreate
- Access Veo 3 when adding media to your project then click the “Generate” button to open the prompt editor
- Write your own prompt or use one of the suggested prompts and click “Generate”
- Choose one of the images that gets generated > You can then use the image or create a video based off that image to add to your project
- Edit the draft and make it your own before you publish

Veo 3 is also available in specific regions via our Shorts creation tools. We can’t wait to see what you create!

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 3,482

YouTube Creators

Calling all music artists and creators 🎶

Dive into our new video series, "Resources for Artists", where you can:
- Learn how to fine-tune your release strategy
- Gain new listeners
- Catch up on our latest YouTube for Artists Masterclass on Visual Storytelling, taught by Lyor Cohen
- Check out the series here: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpjK41...

You can also find more relevant content at youtube.com/ - we hope you love it!

1 month ago (edited) | [YT] | 3,236

YouTube Creators

Hi Creators! We’re excited to announce that we’re starting to roll out Edit with AI, our new tool that enables you to turn your raw camera roll footage into a compelling first draft of a Short. Details:

- Edit with AI handles the initial heavy lifting of content creation by arranging the best moments from your camera roll so you can jump straight to the fun part of editing: refining the story, perfecting the timing, and adding your own personal style to make your Short unique before you publish the final product
- Edit with AI will be available via Shorts creation tools in the main YouTube app on both iOS and Android devices and the YouTube Create app on Android. Info on the app here: yt.be/help/createHC
- To get started with the tool, select images or videos from your camera roll and choose from a variety of editing styles to help kickstart your content
- Some editing styles include the ability to add an AI voiceover to narrate your video (note: AI voiceover is available in English and Hindi and only on the YouTube Create app for now and will be coming to Shorts in the coming months)

Sometimes the hardest part of video creation is getting started, which is why we built Edit with AI - we hope this new tool gives you creative momentum when you don't know where to begin! Edit with AI has already started to launch and will be available in Shorts and on the Create app in the coming months.

1 month ago | [YT] | 5,403

YouTube Creators

Starting today, we’re expanding multi-language audio to millions of new creators, allowing them to upload additional languages as audio tracks to their videos and share their content with a larger audience. If you’re eligible, you’ll be notified via Studio!

More here: support.google.com/youtube/answer/13338784?hl=en

2 months ago | [YT] | 8,439

YouTube Creators

Hi Creators! We’re aware that some of you are having issues where like, comment, and share buttons are missing from YT Shorts. The issue seems to be mostly occuring for Android users. Our teams are actively investigating this. Please follow this thread for updates: support.google.com/youtube/th... Thanks for your patience!

2 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 7,710

YouTube Creators

Expanding the ability to hype a video to new markets!

Over the past year, we’ve been testing a new feature to help smaller creators get recognized by their community and potentially be discovered by new audiences. Now, we’re expanding this feature to more countries so viewers in eligible countries will be able to “hype” a video published in the last 7 days.

Every week, viewers will be able to hype videos up to three times at no cost. The more that viewers hype a video, the more likely it is to land on a new leaderboard with other top hyped videos each week. The leaderboard will appear as a new destination under the Explore section.

For now, eligibility is limited to creators from select countries with between 500 and 500K subs, and whose videos adhere to our Community Guidelines. Full list of eligibility criteria (including the newly added countries) in our Help Center here: support.google.com/youtube/answer/15509925

We’ll continue to test and gather feedback to inform how we roll this out more broadly in the future!

3 months ago | [YT] | 4,827