"Leave YouTube?" Message on iOS External Links, Tips for 2021, Hashtag Landing Pages and MORE!

00:09 - Let’s get into it. First up, we’re gonna talk about tips.

00:12 - Now, last week we put on stories a ton of interviews that Matt had done with creators.

00:19 - If you missed that, we’ve put all of those tips into a neat video the link for which is in that description beneath this video.

00:26 - Next up, we have a message about staying safe on YouTube.

00:31 - So to help users stay safe on the platform we’re adding a message on iOS when you click an external link that’s in a comment on VOD.

00:41 - That’s gonna ask you if you’re sure you wanna leave the platform and pursue this link and that you’re sure that you trust this link to bring you somewhere safe.

00:50 - There are two things you’re gonna want to keep in mind when it comes to this leave YouTube message.

00:54 - The first is that it applies only to comments on VODs but we might expand to other surfaces in future.

01:02 - The second is that it doesn’t apply when it comes to any links from the channel owner on their own channel or for any links within the YouTube domain.

01:11 - So what this means is if you’re clicking on a link that’s linking to another YouTube video on the platform, for example that has specific timestamp, you’re not gonna be seeing this message.

01:21 - We do hope to expand this to desktop and Android in the future, but for now, that’s your update.

01:28 - Next up, we have some really good news if you’re fun of hashtag landing pages.

01:32 - What’s the news? Well, it’s launched to 100%.

01:36 - And what does that mean? It means that any time you search for a hashtag on YouTube, you’re gonna be brought to a hashtag landing page specific to that very hashtag.

01:47 - So let us know what you think in the comments below.

01:50 - We’ll send any of the feedback we get to the team that manages this awesome process for YouTube.

01:57 - In the last news flash, Dr. Palta asked how to switch to came to a brand account.

02:03 - Well, we contacted James who’s gonna help you out Dr. Palta, and he’s gonna walk you all through that now.

02:09 - - [James] I’m gonna give you a quick explainer here about how to move your permissions from being managed by your brand account to being managed by channel permissions.

02:20 - And also give you some information about why that may or may not be the right decision for you.

02:26 - So if you go to settings and then the permissions, if you’ve had a brand account in the past, you’re familiar with this top piece that says, hey manage permissions.

02:35 - And then when you click on it, it takes you to where you can manage permissions with your brand account.

02:40 - But this here at the bottom will be new where it says move permissions to YouTube Studio.

02:45 - And so I’m going to kind of walk you through what that will look like.

02:48 - So this is a test channel. I’m gonna go to move permissions and you can see here what will happen is the people that have permissions to your brand accounts will be pulled in here and you’ll have to choose a new access level for them.

03:02 - The reason for this is that the roles don’t precisely line up between the two.

03:09 - We’ve tailored the new roles more towards YouTube to be more granular and so you’re going to have to make a new choice.

03:17 - The other thing that it is important for you to realize and take a look at is that there are some places where the new channel permissions are not yet supported that brand accounts have worked in the past.

03:32 - All of this is outlined on our help text Sorry.

03:45 - Yeah, all of that is outlined on our help text here where you can see some of the limitations.

03:51 - And so just to give you an example, things like live streaming as the channel.

03:58 - If you had someone who was accessing your channel through brand permissions that’s managing this for you, this isn’t yet supported by the new channel permissions.

04:07 - We do plan to support it in the future, but I don’t want you to break your workflow by moving over and finding out, hey, actually this isn’t gonna work for me.

04:15 - So yeah. So let’s say you’ve decided that this is right for you or you like to try things out.

04:22 - You can choose a role for this person or you can choose to remove their access.

04:28 - In this case, I’m gonna use the new editor limited role even though my channel isn’t monetized am just so excited about it.

04:34 - And then you need to understand, this person is gonna have access to your channel through channel permissions.

04:40 - They’re also gonna lose access to the brand account.

04:44 - So they will not be able to access your channel through the brand account.

04:47 - They also won’t be able to access other Google services that use the brand account, things like Google Photos or Google My Business.

04:55 - If you didn’t know they had access to those things today, great.

04:58 - But if some of you are using a brand account permissions in this way, you wanna be aware.

05:05 - Last but not least you hit invite, they will then be removed from the brand account and get a new permission with a new invitation from YouTube Studio.

05:15 - So you can see this person has been invited here.

05:21 - Last but not least, let’s say you didn’t read the help text closely and you actually got…

05:28 - You know, you found something that’s not gonna work for you, you need to go back.

05:31 - You can always opt out. And what that will do is it will remove access to any users from channel permissions and then you’ll have to go back to the brand account to re-invite people over again.

05:43 - We don’t add people back on your behalf. Yeah. So that’s it.

05:47 - I’ll show you how this works really quickly here.

05:50 - Super easy. Just opt out so that you understand.

05:54 - And yeah, that’s it. Definitely take a look and let us know what you think.

06:00 - - All right, we’ve grown the channel significantly over the past year and it’s been in no small part with your help.

06:07 - I’ve gotten tips on how to perform better on camera.

06:10 - I’ve gotten a ton of really constructive feedback about presence and tone and energy and I just want to say thank you but also keep that feedback coming.

06:21 - Whether it’s in the send feedback link or through comments we read through absolutely everything.

06:27 - And I know I’ve become a little bit better at least as a result of all of your feedback.

06:32 - So that’s it for me this week. You’ll see me again next week with all of the official updates from YouTube right here on this channel where you can ask questions about anything you want.

06:43 - So from the creators of YouTube to YouTube creators, am O’Connor signing off, see you next week. .