Overview
- YouTube is integrating DeepMind’s Veo 3 to generate and edit Shorts from text or references, with visible labels indicating AI involvement.
- Live streams will support simultaneous portrait and landscape broadcasts with a single chat, plus audience‑free test streams and seamless shifts to subscriber‑only access.
- YouTube is adding Playables for Live with more than 75 free games designed for streaming engagement.
- New ad mechanics include half‑screen ads during streams, interchangeable ad blocks in recorded videos, and external links in Shorts, alongside AI that matches creators with brands and flags products in shopping videos.
- Creator tools expand to reaction summaries, topic suggestions, auto‑generated clips from streams, A/B title testing, a channel‑advice chatbot, podcast‑to‑video conversion, AI lip‑sync for translated videos, and a pilot detector to identify AI‑made content; YouTube also cited $100 billion paid to creators over four years.