- Welcome to "YouTube Creator News"
where I keep YouTubers like you up to date
with everything that's happening on YouTube
that impacts content creators.
Today we have some exciting news for podcasters,
for people with iPhones, and people that use YouTube Shorts.
Oh, actually we got some serious business
we have to talk about (laughs) as well.
So the first thing that we're gonna talk about
is the year-end tax forms are available
if you are a monetized creator in your AdSense account.
In order to access this
you want to go to your AdSense account
at adsense.google.com.
From there click on your Payments,
and then you want to click on Payments Info.
Then click Manage Settings,
and then scroll to your Payments Profile
and click Edit next to the United States Tax Info.
And this is all for US citizens by the way.
Select Manage Tax Info,
and then scroll down to Tax Reporting
and 1099/1042 forms,
they will be available under Documents.
So you wanna make sure that you are
keeping an eye out for that
so that you can pull those records
if you are a monetized creator
'cause you're gonna need that for your taxes.
In addition to that,
if you are a content creator that does podcasts
or plans to do podcasts in the future,
as you have already noticed inside of your YouTube studio
they already have the little podcast tab in there,
but now they have it
to where you can actually create the podcast.
And now with this it's gonna be rolling out to all creators,
and it's already started, your podcast, if you have one,
it's going to also show up in YouTube music
in the United States, which is a huge win
for content creators because then that way
it's just one more point where people can discover you.
Whereas typically podcasts just have trouble with discovery.
So this is huge.
In addition to that, to create a new podcast
all you have to do is create a new playlist,
in terms of how it works,
and then you turn an existing playlist into a podcast.
From there, you want to add a square podcast thumbnail.
You're gonna see all this in the actual setup process.
And it's square, not 16x9 like regular videos are
because this is gonna end up showing up all over the place.
But you want to go into the podcast tab in settings,
and they also are going to have separate podcast analytics
which is gonna be really cool as well.
So it's going to be separate from the analytics that you get
on your regular video content.
So when it comes to podcasts, if you're a content creator,
this is really great news for you.
So another thing to consider when it comes to podcasts,
you know, for those of you that do long-form content
like live streams, for example,
if you have live streams that you do on a regular basis,
one thing that you might want to consider
is kind of modifying everything in a way
that would also make it to where it would be
a really good podcast
if somebody were to listen to it on a podcast
so that you can structure things in the right way,
maybe add some audio branding and things like that
that would make it actually feel like a podcast.
So then you could have the live experience
that you would be able to benefit from.
You would have the actual replay of the video content itself
on your YouTube channel that you'd be able to benefit from,
and you would also be able to show up in YouTube music
as the podcast as well.
So just something to consider there.
I actually, shortly before the stream,
I created one for "Nimmin Live" as well.
Even though we have that available
on other podcast platforms, I wanted to create one
just to kind of go through the process
and see what was involved.
Super easy.
So if you're making long-form content,
this is one way that you also might be able to
get more reach on that.
But make sure that you are thinking about
content appropriate,
which means that if you are doing a live stream
and you're just sitting there
and just kind of like hanging out not really doing anything,
then in that particular case,
probably not the best for a podcast.
But if you're doing something where you're talking a lot,
then setting things up structurally
so that it would make a good podcast
is definitely something to consider.
The next thing that we have on our list here
is if you are on an iPhone,
rolling out now, and Android users had this already,
but rolling out now they have it to where
you are going to be able to select a thumb from your shorts.
Now this doesn't mean
that you're gonna be able to upload a custom thumbnail.
This means that during your upload process
that you could actually go in and you can choose a frame
from your short to use as the actual thumbnail for it.
because we know that some types of things
work better with shorts when it comes to the thumb.
And part of that,
just like on regular YouTube videos
if somebody does get presented that thumb
and they're not in the feed, but they're in the mobile feed
where they see those three or four previews,
then being able to pull them in is definitely a win.
So this is something you wanna use.
But in order to try this out,
if you have the feature enabled, if you don't have it,
you will have it soon if you're on an iPhone.
But what you need to do is record
or import a video with the shorts camera,
then navigate to the final upload screen.
From there, don't publish it,
from there you wanna tap the pencil icon
that's overlaid over the thumbnail of your video.
Then you wanna scrub along your video's timeline
to pick a thumbnail and then hit Done,
and then you've upload your short.
So one thing that they do note is that
it's not currently possible to change the thumbnail
after your short has been uploaded, but they look forward
to bringing that feature in the future.
So it is gonna be
to where we might be able to modify that in the future,
but as of right now we're able to select it,
which is pretty awesome.
In addition to that,
this comes from the Creator Insiders YouTube channel,
if you're using audio dubs
YouTube is going to be rolling out new analytics for those.
It's not available yet,
but it's something that they're kind of teasing.
So once that is available, of course,
I will let you know here.
And if you are a content creator
and you wanna make sure that you don't miss out
on any YouTube news at all,
make sure you subscribe,
and that's the news.
Oh, and by the way,
if you are a regular viewer of my channel,
I'm not gonna be streaming tomorrow.
It's my birthday weekend,
so I'm gonna be doing birthday stuff.
So have a great rest of your weekend.
I will be publishing a video though,
but have a great rest of your weekend
and I will see you next week.