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YouTube announced updates to its comments section and creator monetization tools at its Made On YouTube event, including support for GIF replies, voice-based comments on TV, a personalized comment moderation experiment, and expanded Channel Memberships that let creators run paid, members-only communities with posts and discussions.
At its Made On YouTube event, YouTube introduced a new editing feature that lets creators refine long- and short-form videos through a chat-style interface, giving instructions in natural language rather than manually cutting footage. The tool can select best takes, add music and transitions, insert text overlays, remove speech pauses, and suggest edits based on conversation context, while still allowing creators to manually adjust the timeline. YouTube says the feature will launch on Shorts and the YouTube Create app in early 2027.
YouTube unveiled two AI features for YouTube Music at its Made On YouTube event: Ask Music, a conversational search tool covering over 300 million songs including remixes and live versions, and Your Podcast Lineup, a personalized weekly audio guide highlighting recommended podcasts and episodes. Ask Music lets users type natural-language requests, like building a mix based on a song's influences or asking who played on a track, instead of searching by title or artist.
YouTube announced at its Made On YouTube event that creators can now organize short, vertical video clips into serialized microdrama-style series. The feature mirrors the format popularized by standalone microdrama apps, which use brief, cliffhanger-driven episodes shot for phone screens.
YouTube announced at its Made on YouTube event that users will soon create multiple custom video feeds by typing plain-language prompts, with dedicated homepage tabs for each topic, rolling out on desktop, TV and mobile in the US next month. The company is also expanding its experimental Ask YouTube tool, which can now pull information from videos and outside sources to build comparison tables and answer follow-up questions on a video's watch page.
Google unveiled Custom Feeds at its Made on YouTube event, a feature letting users type natural-language requests to generate a personalized homepage feed. The tool uses large language models to interpret prompts like genre or mood combinations and build a matching set of video suggestions. YouTube tested the feature earlier this year and plans a full rollout to all US users across mobile, desktop and TV.
YouTube announced at its Made on YouTube event that Ask YouTube, its conversational AI search feature, will now help users make shopping decisions. Users searching for products can get organized comparisons of attributes and categories, and can ask follow-up questions directly on a video's watch page. YouTube said the feature, powered by a custom Gemini model, was used by over 140 million people in June, up more than 500% since December.
YouTube unveiled 'Shorts Series' at its Made On YouTube event, a tool letting creators group Shorts into seasons and episodes with custom thumbnails on their channel pages. The feature is rolling out to YouTube Partner Program members across web, mobile and connected TVs.
At its Made on YouTube event, YouTube announced updates to its Studio app, including expanding the Ask Studio AI Q&A feature to iOS and Android, and adding AI-driven feedback on unpublished video drafts covering pacing and structure. The app also gains a research feed showing trending content, AI-generated thumbnails and titles matched to a creator's style, and a dynamic thumbnail tool that tests three versions on different audience segments.
At its Made on YouTube event, the company unveiled updates to its 2025 creator dashboard, adding an AI 'agent' that scans a creator's back catalog for videos gaining new relevance and suggests updated titles or thumbnails. The tool can also generate sponsor pitches using channel demographic data, and creators can now get AI feedback on thumbnails or have the system auto-generate them, alongside a dynamic thumbnail A/B testing feature that assigns different images to different audience segments.