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9 New YouTube Features Revolutionising Content Creation

At the recent "Made on YouTube 2024" event, YouTube introduced several innovative tools and functions. These new YouTube features, while primarily aimed at content creators, offer significant opportunities for digital marketing professionals seeking to optimise their online presence, audience engagement, and monetisation on the platform. Let's explore the key YouTube features and updates that could influence your strategy.

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9 New YouTube Features Revolutionising Content Creation
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AI-Powered Video Creation: Veo in Dream Screen

YouTube has enhanced its Dream Screen feature, originally introduced in YouTube Shorts, with a new AI tool called Veo. Utilising Google DeepMind’s video generation technology, Veo creates more realistic backgrounds. This tool could prove invaluable for e-commerce businesses producing short-form content for products or campaigns, offering greater creative possibilities with minimal production costs.

Enhanced Inspiration Tab in YouTube Studio

The updated Inspiration tab now offers project suggestions and assists creators in refining their content, from titles and thumbnails to video outlines. This feature could save marketers considerable time in video content creation.

Deeper Community Relationships

A new Communities feature on channel pages allows creators and brands to interact more directly with their audience. The ability to share content (both creator and user-generated) directly on the channel page provides an additional avenue for audience engagement and brand loyalty building.

AI-Driven Interaction in Community Hub

The improved Community Hub in YouTube Studio offers better audience insights and AI-suggested responses to comments. This is particularly useful for brands or marketers managing growing audiences, enabling more efficient and meaningful interactions.

YouTube is expanding its automatic dubbing feature, adding dubbed audio tracks in multiple languages. This feature broadens content accessibility, allowing e-commerce brands to target global markets without the need for specialised translation teams.

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Automatic Dubbing Replaces Subtitles

YouTube is expanding its automatic dubbing feature, adding dubbed audio tracks in multiple languages. This feature broadens content accessibility, allowing e-commerce brands to target global markets without the need for specialised translation teams.

Hype Boosts Visibility for Mid-Sized Creators

The new Hype feature helps spotlight smaller and medium-sized creators by featuring them on a weekly leaderboard. This could be beneficial for businesses collaborating with small to medium-sized influencers or brand ambassadors.

YouTube Shopping Expansion

The YouTube Shopping feature continues to grow, with its affiliate programme expanding beyond the USA and South Korea into new markets such as Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam. This shopping method is significantly more popular in Asia, with some European countries still gradually adopting this sales approach.

Monetisation in Live Broadcasts

Gifs powered by the Jewels tool will soon be available in vertical live broadcasts, allowing viewers to react and send virtual gifts. Brands, and especially creators, can use this as a new method of real-time monetisation during live sales or product events.



Enhanced TV Viewing Experience

YouTube will allow creators to organise their content into series and episodes, enabling automatic video playback when visiting a channel page. This could be an excellent way to professionally present tutorials, campaigns, or serial content for your brand.

YouTube’s 2024 updates present new opportunities for global reach and audience interaction. Whether you’re looking to build a community around your brand, expand your reach to new markets, or improve video content production, these new tools can help brands grow on YouTube and build a community around themselves.

For more detailed explanations of these new features, we recommend visiting YouTube’s official channels.

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