- Hey insiders, welcome to the newsflash.
My name is Abenath,
and I'm back with a few
more updates this week.
But before we begin,
I wanted to say a big thank
you for all the great feedback,
and some really good tips
on last week's video.
As Connor noted in one of his videos,
it's really tough being a
creator and getting used to being
in front of the camera.
So, thank you so much for all the support.
This week, we don't have a ton of updates.
So, I wanted to bring
James back to the show.
Who recently interviewed
a creator insider viewer,
who had suggested a specific permissions,
featured in the comments,
when James asked about it a while ago.
We took his feedback to heart,
and we even named our
internal project after them,
Project Chevy Dude.
Not only that,
we actually implemented
this permission level,
because we turned it to be super
useful to all the creators.
So stick around, to see that interview.
Let's move on to the
updates for this week.
The very first update,
is on the rollout of,
other videos your audience
watched feature and studio.
We continue to roll this out
and we will keep you updated,
when this is available
to a 100% of creators.
As a reminder, you may
not see this feature,
now or in the future, if your
videos are made for kids,
or your channel and does
not have enough information.
The next update is on
audience retention insights.
We have now opted in everyone
who was eligible and expressed
interest in the comments,
on our 14th, July newsflash.
You should be able to see
audience retention insights,
if you were opted in, in the
engagement tab off studio.
The next update, is on
custom emojis in comments.
We continue to roll this out,
and it'll happen over the
next two to three weeks.
As a reminder, if a creator
with channel memberships
enabled has uploaded custom emojis,
their members will now be
able to use custom emojis,
and video comments as well as live chat.
Now let's move on to James
interview with Chevy Dude.
Take it away, James.
- Hey insiders, this is James here,
I've got a special one for you today,
I'm here with Mike AKA Chevy Dude,
welcome to your creator insider mic.
- Hey, thank you.
It's a true honor to be
part of this channel,
I've been watching the
channel for a long time.
- Yeah, all right.
Do you watch every episode
or what's your usual habit?
- Yeah, no, I definitely
watch every episode.
- That's awesome.
Well, why don't you tell,
everyone about your channel.
- So I am a car salesman
in Louisville, Kentucky,
and back in 2010, I moved
to Louisville, Kentucky from
four hours away and not knowing anybody,
so I just started to start a channel,
trying to get my name out there,
and I created a few videos on
how to not get screwed
over by car salesman,
and those videos took off.
They just went viral. I'm like, what?
Well, this people like this stuff,
I was like, I'm not supposed
to be trusted, right?
I'm a car salesman.
So I've taken the channel to
the level that people trust me.
They have learned about me,
they know that they can
call me with confidence,
and say what he says is the truth.
What he says may not
be what we wanna hear,
but we know we're going
to get the right answers.
And one of the goals that I got into,
back in 2001 when I started selling cars,
'cause I didn't want to sell cars,
is that I wanted to change
the automotive industry,
and YouTube is now my platform
to change automotive industry.
- That's awesome.
Yeah, I was watching one
of your recent videos,
and man, I haven't driven
in a long long time,
and it made me want to get behind the car.
So your channel, is it just
you or is there a broader team?
- So it's just me on camera,
my wife gets involved,
we've been trying to kind
of launch some podcasting,
some live videos and I have an editor,
and then I have a thumbnail person.
So, that's how is small channel,
but I've learned to delegate
a couple of responsibilities
out to, just make my
life a little bit easier,
because I have the YouTube,
which is we know is a full time job,
and then I also have, me selling cars,
which is a full time job as well.
- Well, so the reason Mike,
that I invited you here,
and wanted to have this conversation,
you actually is a comment that you left.
I think at this point,
probably three months ago,
maybe a little bit more than
that, about permissions.
So, close watch to the program,
may remember that I was
on giving an update about
being able to reply to
comments as the channel owner,
and you said something now,
be honest before I reached out to you,
did you remember commenting this?
- Yes, absolutely I did because
actually on a side note,
some union company,
saw that note and they put her on Twitter,
and they were all bashing me on Twitter,
which is fine, I could care
less if people bash me or not.
So, yeah, so that, that's
actually something that,
that I've been wanting for years,
and I did remember writing it,
it shocked me that you
guys actually read it,
started working on it, which is cool.
- Yeah, so I'll just
read it really quickly,
and so Mike says,
we need to limit who can see
ad revenue and permissions,
my editor doesn't need to see how much,
money the channel makes,
I personally think the only
person who needs to see revenue
is the channel owner,
and then whoever the owner wants to see
can be a toggle on or off.
This been a request, so I will be honest.
Mike is not the first
person to make this ask,
but it came at a really good time,
and I really, that week
we kicked off a project,
that we internally have been
calling Project Chevy Dude.
So, whether you know it or not,
you're gonna rally and
cry for the internal team,
since that point in time.
So yeah, so we're, launching
a editor without revenue role,
where you can give someone the ability to,
access the channel, do
almost everything you can do.
The two exceptions being,
they can't delete videos and
they can't see how much
any of your revenue data.
So, they can't go see,
how much money your last video made in,
or how much money the
channels made on time,
they're kind of there to update,
reply to comments, do thumbnails.
Cool, well, thank you Mike,
I thank so much for taking the time,
anything, any last words
for the insider community
you wanna share?
- No, I think I appreciate
everything you guys do,
and it's an honor to have
you guys read every comment,
I know you guys do it,
I see you love the comments,
'cause I read the comments as well,
and, and what's not by now,
I think it's awesome,
what you guys do and just,
anything you think of just do it.
- We'll do it. Thanks for
coming on the program,
and yeah, we'll more
permissioned updates coming soon,
talk to you soon, Insider nation.
- Thank you so much, James,
this was great.
Let's move on to trivia.
I acknowledge that last
week's trivia question,
got a little confusing,
but I'm surprised that
still a lot of you answered it right.
I asked you, which was
the second fastest video
to reach 1 billion views,
and how many days did it take
to reach 1 billion views?
The answer is Despacito,
and it took around 96.5 days
to reach 1 billion views.
The winner of last week's
trivia is Serennna Li,
Congratulations.
For this week's trivia question,
I'm adding a different flavor.
This is my ukulele,
which I love playing,
whenever I'm stressed,
it helps me to relax a little.
This week's trivia question is,
how many different types of
ukuleles are available in the market?
And what is the distinguishing
factor between them?
Bonus points to anyone who can tell me,
if there is one ukulele,
which has a different tuning
compared to all the others.
I am signing off for this week,
but I'm really excited to
see you all again, next week.
Stay safe, have fun.
(Instrumental music)
