The Best New Features Coming to YouTube in 2024

At its yearly lawsuit held successful New York yesterday, YouTube announced a clump of features it’s introducing connected its level successful 2024. Several of these features are powered by Google’s DeepMind AI tech and are much focused connected creators than viewers.

In summation to liking videos connected YouTube, you tin “Hype” them, too. Hype is simply a soon-to-be-launched diagnostic that volition unrecorded adjacent to the Like fastener and propulsion the video to a play leaderboard each clip it’s pressed. Sometimes, I travel crossed a tiny creator I similar and privation to present to others, but sharing feels similar a batch of effort, and liking doesn’t look to beryllium enough. Hype volition get its ain trending committee and users are constricted to 3 “Hypes” per week.

YouTube volition besides soon let creators to signifier their contented successful seasons and episodes. I’m not definite if this volition regenerate oregon articulation Playlists, but I anticipation it’s the latter. Just arsenic Netflix starts auto-playing contented you’re previewing, YouTube volition besides statesman auto-playing videos connected a transmission erstwhile you click connected it.

The Community Hub connected the YouTube Studio app is upgrading to let creators to reply to their comments utilizing AI. They’ll spot AI-powered reply suggestions nether viewers’ comments (similar to the effect options offered connected Gmail) that they tin take from. YouTube hopes to marque the Hub much interactive and engaging with this one.

To further foster the creator-viewer relationship, YouTube is introducing a brand-new abstraction called Communities. This volition beryllium a abstraction creators tin alteration connected their channels if they similar and volition let a two-way enactment with their audiences. Basically, it’s Discord. Both the creator and their subscribers tin station images, ideas, oregon immoderate suggestions that they mightiness have. Audience members tin ballot oregon react, but not respond. YouTube’s taking it a measurement further allowing the subscribers much agency.

The Inspiration tab is besides getting an AI-powered revamp. It’ll soon let creators to instrumentality an thought each the mode from conception to a “fully-fledged project.” You’d beryllium capable to brainstorm with it and inquire it for suggestions connected the title, thumbnail, oregon video outline. It’s thing you can’t usage ChatGPT for, but astir apt having it embedded successful the YouTube Studio app keeps users successful the comfy confines of Google’s products.

Last year, YouTube announced Dream Screen, a diagnostic that lets you enactment AI-generated video oregon representation backgrounds connected your Shorts videos. This year, it’s upgrading that utilizing Veo. Apparently, Veo volition marque the inheritance much “realistic.” You conscionable request to input a punctual and a desired benignant (Cinematic, Watercolor, etc.) It’ll besides let standalone videos connected Dream Screen that creators tin insert arsenic filler scenes, transitions, oregon an opening oregon closing country to adhd much context.