Okay, so big update starting October 15th You can now upload YouTube shorts as long as through as long as three minutes now just to be clear Vertical videos uploaded between 60 and 3 minutes before this date will remain long form And any horizontal video, regardless of its length, won't be affected by this update and will stay as a standard YouTube video. Now I asked you all how you felt about this and there was a very, very mixed response. Not everybody's happy, but how will this affect your ability to be discovered?
How will this affect music? And how will this affect monetization? Alright, let's start with music usage.
So for shorts up to 60 seconds, nothing changes. You can still use any popular song from the shorts audio library. But for shorts over 60 seconds, using these popular songs, it's not an option. If you do, then the video will not be playable or recommended on YouTube and will not be eligible for monetization. But you can use any song from YouTube's audio library.
You find that by going to YouTube Studio and navigating to the audio library section in the left-hand sidebar. From there, you can browse through a wide range of royalty-free music that is safe to use in your content without worrying about copyright restrictions, And all those other royalty-free music sites are also fine. Now let's talk about search and discovery. Let's talk about how this is going to affect your ability to get found and discovered on YouTube.
Well, YouTube says that the shorts discovery system isn't changing. Your longer shorts will still pop up across home, watch next, and the shorts tab just like before. So there's not necessarily an advantage of making longer shorts.
But think about this update as giving you the breathing room to tell the stories that you want to tell. And if the video is better, then the video is going to perform better, and therefore you're going to get more views and more discoverability because of that. But inherently, just because there are three minutes now, doesn't change anything.
Let's talk about monetization, because that's something you might expect it to be really different. But it's not. Longer shorts will earn the same ad revenue as shorter shorts.
That sounds crazy. You still earn based on shorts views, not watch time. So a three minute short with two minutes of watch time won't earn you more than a 60 second short with the same amount of views. The only thing really changing here is your ability to have more breathing room to tell bigger and better stories and not being cut off. That's all that's changing.
The discoverability is not really changing. The monetization is not really changing. The music is changing just a little bit. All right, now let me know what you think about this update in the comments below. Is it good news?
Is it bad news? Do you just not care? And if you wanna hear about this new update that YouTube CEO just announced for smaller channels, go ahead and watch this video right here. I'll see you over there. I enjoyed hanging out with you and keep creating.