YouTube Unveils Exciting New Features for 2024: AI Dubbing, Enhanced Communities, and Creator Tools

The Best New Features Coming to YouTube in 2024

At its annual event held in New York yesterday, YouTube announced a bunch of features it's introducing on its platform in 2024. Several of these features are powered by Google's DeepMind AI tech and are more focused on creators than viewers. In addition to liking videos on YouTube, you can "Hype" them, too. Hype is a soon-to-be-launched feature that will live next to the Like button and push the video to a weekly leaderboard each time it's pressed. Sometimes, I come across a small creator I like and want to introduce to others, but sharing feels like a lot of effort, and liking doesn't seem to be enough. Hype will get its own trending board and users are limited to three "Hypes" per week. YouTube will also soon allow creators to organize their content in seasons and episodes. I'm not sure if this will replace or join Playlists, but I hope it's the latter. Just as Netflix starts auto-playing content you're previewing, YouTube will also begin auto-playing videos on a channel when you click on it. The Community Hub on the YouTube Studio app is upgrading to allow creators to reply to their comments using AI. They'll see AI-powered reply suggestions under viewers' comments (similar to the response options offered on Gmail) that they can choose from. YouTube hopes to make the Hub more interactive and engaging with this one. To further foster the creator-viewer relationship, YouTube is introducing a brand-new space called Communities. This will be a space creators can enable on their channels if they like and will allow a two-way interaction with their audiences. Basically, it's Discord. Both the creator and their subscribers can post images, ideas, or any suggestions that they might have. Audience members can vote or react, but not respond. YouTube's taking it a step further allowing the subscribers more agency. The Inspiration tab is also getting an AI-powered revamp. It'll soon allow creators to take an idea all the way from conception to a "fully-fledged project." You'd be able to brainstorm with it and ask it for suggestions on the title, thumbnail, or video outline. It's nothing you can't use ChatGPT for, but probably having it embedded in the YouTube Studio app keeps users in the comfy confines of Google's products. Last year, YouTube announced Dream Screen, a feature that lets you put AI-generated video or image backgrounds on your Shorts videos. This year, it's upgrading that using Veo. Apparently, Veo will make the background more "realistic." You just need to input a prompt and a desired style (Cinematic, Watercolor, etc.) It'll also allow standalone videos on Dream Screen that creators can insert as filler scenes, transitions, or an opening or closing scene to add more context.

Five features that caught our eye from today's YouTube livestream

YouTube's creator-focused , Made On YouTube, is here again, and there's plenty to talk about. From more AI integration to Communities, YouTube seems to be gearing up to compete against rivals like TikTok and Netflix. Here are five things that genuinely interested us among the deluge of updates and new features. YouTube is introducing the system, which lets viewers "go beyond" liking and sharing a video. The idea is to allow fans to give more visibility to smaller -- so hyping is only allowed for videos from creators under 500,000 subscribers, and only on videos under a week old. Content with the most hype will end up on a new leaderboard of the 100 most hyped videos in their country. Fans can only hype three times in a week for now, though additional uses will eventually be purchasable in the future. YouTube Shorts creators will be able to employ Google DeepMind's later this year. Veo can generate six-second clips after reading a prompt, and all creations will have a label showing that generative AI was used, along with SynthID watermarking. Veo integration will exist parallel to (but doesn't replace) YouTube's Dream Screen -- another AI video generation tool -- which was introduced . The is getting a revamp, slated to come out in early 2025. Currently, only the channel owner can post in the Community tab, but the new experience will allow subscribers to create posts, with a tab to view only creator posts if necessary. Of course, subscribers can post images to prompt conversation. Some creators interact with their viewers currently through other platforms (like Discord) and this seems to be an attempt to create an in-house alternative. Some of us lament being unable to understand creators using languages we don't speak, but YouTube intends to fix that by implementing auto-dubbing. With the help of AI, viewers can now listen to machine-translated audio in their preferred language. YouTube promises that the audio will sound natural, taking intonation into account along with the creator's surroundings. Finally, the will have an update mirroring Netflix's current layout. Creators will be able to organize their content in seasons and episodes, and there will be previews before users play any content. According to The Hollywood Reporter, we can expect to see these starting next year, though no concrete date was announced.

You'll See Automatic Dubs, More Robust Communities, and Powerful Creator Tools in YouTube Soon

This Dating App May Have Leaked Extremely Private Data: Check Your Account Now Get ready for some great new YouTube features. At today's Made On YouTube event, the video giant announced a host of additions arriving later this year and into 2025. Bringing Together Fans and Creators in Communities To help connect content creators and fans, one of the biggest new features is Communities. Instead of heading to Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, or somewhere else, YouTube wants to keep the community on its platform. Each community is linked from the creator's channel. To begin, only channel subscribers can post and comment. YouTube is also promising more controls to help moderate the content posted by fans. Creators will be able to also set clear guidelines for behavior by fans. The feature is available now with a handful of channels with wider access starting next year. To help make videos more accessible to a worldwide audience, YouTube has also unveiled an automatic dubbing feature. That will allow creators to generate translated audio tracks for videos in different languages. Some of the supported languages include Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian. YouTube is also piloting a new feature that will transfer the tone and intonation and add it to the dubbed audio for a more natural experience. Viewers can also help promote smaller creators with the upcoming Hype feature. If a video has been out for less than 7 days from a creator with less than 500,000 subscribers, Hype provides more than just liking and sharing. A new leaderboard will show the top 100 hyped videos, allowing smaller creators to get some notice. Looking to Improve the Creator Experience YouTube was also busy during the event announcing a number of new tools for content creators. The Inspiration section of YouTube Studio will receive a makeover. Thanks to generative AI, it will curate suggestions that you can form into complete projects with titles, thumbnails, outlines, and more. Coming in 2025, there will also be a shortcut to head directly to the Inspiration section. Starting next year, YouTube will also add Google's DeepMind model Veo to YouTube Shorts. That will allow creators to add unique video backgrounds. Creators will also be able to generate 6-second clips into Shorts with Veo. All AI-generated content will show a label. YouTube has been able to do a nice job adding AI into different parts of the service. YouTube Music's AI Radio creates custom playlists for you based on prompts.