This Week at YouTube: Shorts in Playlists and Your Impersonation Question Answered

Hello Insiders! Today, we're covering the new ability to add Shorts to a playlist, and a frequently asked question we heard from the audience from our update covering YouTube's impersonation policy.

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

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:06 [Launch] Shorts in Playlists
0:39 [Audience Question] "How can you report channels you believe are impersonating others?"
1:01 Creator Insider Producer on Maternity Leave

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[KarlRosePhotography]

Thank you and YES by subscribing & getting notices from you folks saves ME a LOT of time sending questions to YouTube directly

[ScottJWaldron]

Every survey I get in YTS that asks about the best YouTube resource, this channel is my answer! Thanks for the updates as usual.

[Muhluri]

That shorts playlist is long overdue. I’ve lots thousands of Classics because I couldn’t save it.
Thanks guys!

[SP_technology]

Thank you guys for your love and support❤️❤️❤️

[Freakinreviews]

The problem with reporting impersonation accounts is that they constantly change to impersonate a variety of people. So if/when someone at YouTube views my impersonation report, in most cases that channel is now impersonating someone else, so it doesn't get taken down.

My suggestion is to flag an account that 1. Uses the same profile picture of the account's video to which they are posting, AND 2. Replies to numerous comments on that channel in a short period of time. The current method will always allow the scammers to stay one step ahead of YouTube.

[VolkanYuksel]

Hi Connor, thanks much for the great updates. Wishing best of luck to Lauren and her loved ones with the baby 👶🍼🐥😍

[Not-Only-Reaper-Tutorials]

Finally that playlist, although I was always saving my own shorts on playlist to facilitate the users. now you got the point. Great

[MusicOrLoseItTV]

Feedback: YouTube creator settings appear to have no way to update phone number connected to account and this causes problems trying to manage admins. It doesn’t seem to update after changing overall Google account phone number. Creator settings are a mess (seemingly in 3 or 4 different locations) and not being able to change phone numbers causes problems such as not being able to update admin roles. Please fix

[GoingGreenMom]

Congrats Lauren and Family! I wish you an easy and safe labor and delivery!

[Coldsmoking]

I really like these updates. It beats having to just stumble across them by chance. Thanks Conor. Have a great summer.

[GoldenKCampers]

I noticed something a few weeks ago. I noticed on the desktop version on my subscriber feed that shorts now have their dedicated row (if that's the terminology) as opposed to shorts just taking up all the space on my subscription feed. I appreciate that so much. I actually resisted creating shorts and choosing to show in my feed because of how annoying this was to me. Thank You.. whenever that change was made. I've been waiting for someone to talk about this change.. but haven't seen anything.

[E.T.GARAGE]

I think that is typical for most channels, only a small portion of viewers are subscribed to channels they watch, one response I got over on FB was that they did not want to set up an account on YT witch is funny since they have other accounts on sites like FB.

[boondog]

Thank you for keeping everyone informed 😊❤

[KefaleAlemu]

The updates on Impersonation, Shorts & playlists are very useful. Impersonation is one of the problems of Youtube Creators. Well done. Thank you.

[MBommeli]

Some missing Features within Playlists:
- Search
- Filter for Video-Length, Location, Type (Live, 4k, hd, 360°…)
- Sort by Views, Public Date, Rating

[chezitoo]

i love how youtube is the only social media company right now that is making actual good choices and releasing updates we didn't know we wanted

[PhotiniByDesign]

Thank you for the update, and all the very best to Lauren and the family in their new chapter ❤

[criadoresemacao]

Hi, I have some suggestions:

1. In the "content > videos" tab, it would be nice to have a filter by type (Videos | Shorts);
2. The same for the real-time dashboard;
3. When publishing the video, it would be nice to have an option to forward only to a certain group of subscribers. For example: if I'm publishing a Shorts, only notify subscribers who watch Shorts, etc. Or if the algorithm could already do this automatically behind the scenes, that would be cool. Because I believe it would solve the problem of low interest in a certain format, by a specific group of users who only consume another format.

Anyway, just a few suggestions...

Thanks! ✌🇧🇷

[bukococonut]

Playlists are a great resource. If people like one video that is on a playlist then they can see more that are similar by clicking on the playlist.

[UniqetzFlights]

Thank you so much for everything you do!! All updates are absolutely wonderful and always so helpful!!! ❤