Simplifying Channel Pages Clarification and Inspiration Tab Improvements!

Hello Insiders! Today we're clarifying details about the channel pages simplification from last week and talking about some new updates to the Inspiration Tab.

Check it out and leave us your comments and questions below!

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:05 Simplifying Channel Pages Clarification
0:31 Inspiration Tab Updates
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Creator Insider is an informal YouTube channel to share information from the YouTube Creator technical team with the wider Creator community. We will feature different people talking about the products they work on and changes we are making so you have more context.

[airailimages]

Why are we limited to only one category for placing a video (education, music, etc...). So often, a video neatly fits into two categories. Please change this system to allow the selection of two categories.

[VarshaKorangaVlogs]

My channel is demonized 😭😭😭 Everyone was using my content. My Content is original. Why my Channel got demonitize after my lot of hard work???
This is not fair 😭😭😞😞

[Nomax_Official]

Just silently rolling out Dynamic Range Compression and enabling it by default is a bad move that affects the audio community here on YouTube. The feature is not the problem, but it should be turned OFF by default. Hopefully this can be fixed quickly.

[tube-master]

These channel page customizations are so welcome. Thanks 🙏

[AbandonedMines]

As always, the continuous updates and improvements to the YouTube platform and the Creator Studio app are much appreciated. 👍

[mrdarktime]

Remember when YouTube said in 2021 that it was going to add custom shorts thumbnails that worked and then nothing has happened in the three years since? I do.

[tenchfroast]

Thanks for the updates! Simplifying channel pages with not a lot of content is great. Glad you're making the home tab optional instead of just removing it.

Can you please pass on a feature I've been requesting for years? When inside a playlist, if we want to add a video to it, the screen gives us a bar to search ALL of youtube for it, or to paste the url. But for our own channel, it only gives us the option to scroll through recently published videos.

So it's a hassle if we want to add OLDER videos on the fly, because we either have to scroll through hundreds of videos in backwards order to find the one we want, search all of youtube and hope our title was unique enough to not return a bunch of results from other channels, look up the video on our channel to copy the url so we can paste it in, or look up the video in studio to add it to the playlist directly from the video details.

Please change that!

We already have a superior interface under customization. When we click to add or change the featured video for returning subscribers, it has TWO search bars. One to search our channel only, and the other to search all of youtube. That's how it should be when adding videos from within a playlist as well.

[KrisPNatz]

have yall ever thought about adding timestamps to comments? Both for the point in the video the comment is made and also to tell how much of a video a viewer has watched by the time they comment. The former would simply be if the user typed their comment 3min in then you know that is what theyre speaking on. With the latter it would be a measurement of the watch time theyve done on the video so if say a user's comment is at the 5min mark of a 5min video but they skimmed through most of the video their labeled watch time would be a few seconds so others would know this is someone who is commenting without watching the full video.

I think it would be helpful in giving context to vague reaction comments particularly on long form video as well as to show how much of a video has actually been watched before someone decided to say something. Its generally annoying and a source of mild misinformation to see people making large sweeping claims on videos and what a creator has said but then in the replies they reveal they didn't watch the whole video. This kind of transparency could better inform a more competent comment section as well as help creators sift and remove spam.

[ColePerrine]

Honestly, I’d like to see toggles for all of the tabs, and a return for the About tab. I understand the recent moves have been to simplify things, and I like them. But user control would be even better. Turn them off by default, sure. But let me turn something back on if I’d like!

[ThisSoundsGood]

Could you improve the editor of live?
Insert the possibilities of cut some sections

[UncleScottsKitchen]

There's a fine line between "inspiration" and "plagiarism." I've seen my competitors "inspired" to make clickbait copies of my successful videos. Why not encourage people to come up with their own original ideas? Why is it OK to take others' ideas on YouTube but it would lead to lawsuits in the music industry or any other media? For example, if rock music is popular, encouraging people to create new rock songs makes sense, but if you say "here is a specific great rock song now put your own spin on it" that's bad. It's not original and you can't take people's lyrics and melodies and make them your own. On YouTube people are taking parts of my scripts almost word for word, the concepts for the videos, and almost the exact same titles... it's not a "spin"... it's copying and unoriginal and not fair to the person who originally comes up with the idea.

[conteudoanimal]

How about shorts thumbnail? Auto add to playlist feature back ?

[samia]

You really don’t want to give access to outliers so easily for everyone. Just spent once again time reporting a channel that had straight copied my 10 best performing thumbnails. Earlier had to report another channel that had copied my titles, descriptions and everything.

[BenFinio]

Random feature request: a way to filter OUT comments from one or more specific videos in the comments tab in YT studio. We have a single viral video that is totally dominating our comment feed, making it nearly impossible to scroll through and find/reply to comments on other videos. I could be wrong but as far as I can tell that isn't possible with the current filter options. (I realize this has nothing to do with this video, but I know you guys read these comments so just in case).

[DestroyerMariko]

Please also do something about comments that randomly disappear, including my own comments on my own channel. Perhaps you could trust me to moderate my own comments section? My channel has been in good standing without any strikes for years. Pretty sure my judgement is better than a humourless bot that doesn't even catch real spam. It's also really frustrating that none of the deleted comments go to my held for review tab for me to check the bot's work, nor is there any ability to appeal its faulty decisions.

[Rhemaaa._yt]

Can I monitize a greenscreen shorts that was created with the greenscreen feature on YouTube tht involves only facial expressions??

[WayOfTheZombie]

When im typing in a video title in studio i get so many hashtag popups that its almost impossible to finish the title. Anyone else?

[DorianJones_]

Is there an update for audio-only podcasts in the works? I want the option to only show my podcast in the podcast tab. I post 2 podcasts weekly and it buries my long-form videos.

[Scablands_Scavenger]

I tried a few topics suggested on the "inspiration" tab and it has nearly sunk my channel, some of the lowest performing videos I have released in a decade what gives?

[Detu]

What happens if you visit a channel that has the home-tab disabled? Will you be directed to the Videos tab directly?