Updates to Studio, YouTube Live, new gen AI tools, and everything else announced at Made on YouTube | TechCrunch

During this week’s YouTube annual event, YouTube has launched new updates, features and tools for creators, including updates to YouTube Live, new ways to currencies and more.

Studio updates include “similarity” detection and lip sync voiceovers, and the company is providing Podcaster with new AI tools to help promote their show.

This is all the content announced on YouTube.

A new studio

The company shows off New and updated tools for studioscreators use to manage their channels and track analysis. Updates include an Inspiration tab, Title A/B testing features, automatic voiceover, and more.

What caught our attention was the “similar” – the detection feature, which was announced last year and was offered to some creators. Beta is now open. People will be able to use their facial similarity to detect, manage and tag to remove any unauthorized videos.

Ask Studio, powered by AI, can guide users and answer questions about their accounts, and creators will be able to work with up to five people in a single video, which is available to all viewers involved in video maker.

YouTube Live

YouTube gave it Live broadcast, its live broadcast platformand some updates, such as having creators play mini games to entertain audiences, broadcast simultaneously in horizontal and vertical formats, providing AI-driven highlights, reacting to real-time events, using new ad formats, and more.

AI-powered highlighting automatically selects the best moments from the live stream to turn them into shareable shorts and closes new ad formats (called “side-by-side”) to the main content, similar to split-screen displays, rather than interrupting streams.

YouTube is Bring a custom version of veo 3Google’s text-to-video generated AI models, shorts and new mixing tools, “Edit with AI” features and more.

Using WEO 3 quickly with a custom version of WEO 3, creators can apply actions from video to images, add different styles to their videos, and then insert them into the video using simple text prompts. Creators can also use Google’s AI music model Lyria 2 to transform conversations from qualified videos to appealing soundtracks for other shorts.

YouTube Music

YouTube Music has some updatesaims to deepen engagement between creators and fans.

These include a countdown timer for the new version, and an opportunity to provide fans with “thank you” videos, the company is testing a pilot program for U.S. listeners that will give them access to artists’ exclusive merchandise sales.

AI for podcasts

American video podcast creators will be able to Using AI suggestions to make it easier to create clipsaccording to YouTube. New features launched next year will provide a way to turn audio podcasts into video podcasts

New monetization function

YouTube is Provide new ways of currency for creatorsthrough brand deals and YouTube shopping programs, which allow creators to make money by using and tagging products in their content. YouTube will now also allow creators to swap brand sponsorships in long-term videos.

Creators can also take advantage of automatic timestamps for product labels, automatic tags for qualified items mentioned in the video, and new brand links for shorts. An AI-powered system will help determine the best moments for a product to be mentioned and automatically display the product label at that time.

Creators of shorts will soon be able to add links to brand deals to brand websites, and YouTube will proactively advise creators who may be well suited for their creator partner center brands.