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YouTube made over 3,000 updates and improvements to its platform in the last year. From the stage at Made on YouTube 2026, CEO Neil Mohan and the YouTube team shared a bunch more they’re working on. We want to talk about three game-changers.
tl;dr – Turning YouTube playlists into a Show You’ve already made the videos. You’ve even put them in a playlist. But when someone finishes one video, how do you get them to go onto the next? YouTube’s Shows feature gives creators another way to connect those videos.
“Doing the work” on YouTube works. Soon, YouTube Studio will do a little more of that work for you. On September 23, at its annual Made on YouTube event in New York, YouTube announced that Ask Studio will start watching your draft videos and come back with advice on how to improve pacing.
tl;dr YouTube Shorts custom thumbnails are finally here, and it’s a bigger update than it might initially sound. For years, creators who wanted a deliberate, branded thumbnail for a Short had to use an awkward workaround: add the thumbnail as a single frame at the end of the video, select it in…
YouTube is doubling the long form watch time and short form views required to get paid. As YouTube creator news goes, it doesn’t get much bigger than that.
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