YouTube invests in AI agents, live ‘gamification,’ and editing tools to keep creators close

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    "excerpt": "At the event, held in NYC, YouTube paired demos of new AI products and live tools with a stats-heavy pitch: 1.7 billion unique views during the World Cup, funding enough creators to create 540,000 full-time jobs in the U.S., and adding $60 billion to the U.S. GDP. The push comes as YouTube faces increasing competition for creator time and budgets from TikTok (which YouTube Shorts is designed to rival ), Twitch (which leads in streaming ), Instagram (which is pivoting to TV ), all of which are leaning on AI, live formats and affiliate tools to lock in talent. YouTube is x on its agentic tools, built on a custom Gemini model, to help users curate their experience. In theory, that should help creators find more relevant audiences. In practice, questions still linger over how this will affect discoverability and view counts, which the platform just changed how it counts . “Custom feeds” let users create curated homepage feeds using AI prompts. These feeds will pull content from long and short-form YouTube content, ranging from hyper-specific niches to more broad interests. YouTube is also expanding its “Ask YouTube” conversational search feature, which surfaces answers when users type questions into a dedicated box. Now, shopping links will appear in results, and discovery is based not only on thumbnails and auto-generated video transcripts, but imagery in videos. “It opens things...",
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