# YouTube Clarifies Shorts Modifications, Expands Sponsored Content material Tags

YouTube’s rolling out some updates to its channel membership badges, paid product placement choices, in addition to a change to the presentation of Shorts drafts.

However first off, a fast be aware of clarification.

Earlier this month, YouTube introduced that every one movies as much as three minutes lengthy would now qualify as Shorts, and be listed as such inside YouTube’s system. That’s clearly triggered some confusion amongst creators as to how YouTube goes to categorize their shorter movies, so now, it’s supplied an explainer on what the change means to your older quick clips.

As per YouTube:

“To be explicitly clear, vertical movies of three minutes or much less uploaded earlier than October fifteenth 2024 will stay as VODs or lengthy type movies. No movies uploaded previous to at present will probably be transformed to Shorts, solely movies of 0 to three minutes in size filmed in sq. or taller facet ratio which might be uploaded to YouTube beginning at present will probably be thought of Shorts.”

So the change is not going to affect your beforehand uploaded content material, solely uploads of lower than 3 minutes transferring ahead. Many creators have been discussing how the change might affect their channel, and YouTube has supplied a number of explainers of the method.

However to be clear, solely quick movies uploaded from this week, below 3 minutes, will now be listed as Shorts. There’ll be no change to your beforehand uploaded video classes.

YouTube says that it will take a number of weeks for its techniques to regulate to this transformation:

“So in case you add a Quick over 60 seconds transferring ahead, you will nonetheless see your new add mirrored as an everyday lengthy type video in your channel web page, and the video will nonetheless be eligible to be really helpful identical to some other lengthy type video. Throughout this time, over the approaching weeks, these movies will transition to be Shorts, and can begin to seem within the Shorts tab on the channel web page, and will probably be really helpful within the Shorts feed.”

So once more, YouTube creators have clearly had questions on this transformation, and YouTube’s in search of to make clear the precise course of.

(Be aware: YouTube additionally says that you simply’ll now be capable of change the customized body used as your Shorts thumbnail inside the primary YouTube app.)

By way of different updates, YouTube’s additionally experimenting with the flexibility to add customized membership badges inside the onboarding stream on Studio cellular and desktop.

Up until now, creators have solely been capable of add customized badges and emojis on Studio cellular, however now, YouTube is making this extra broadly obtainable within the creation course of.

YouTube’s additionally making it simpler to tag your movies as Sponsored Content material on cellular, with each quick and long-form clips now capable of be tagged as promoted on each net and cellular.

Whereas it’s additionally increasing Shorts drafts to Android and iOS:

“Creators can now view all of their saved drafts, and select which one to renew modifying or delete. This permits customers to work on a number of drafts directly, and so they now not want to complete the earlier draft to start out a brand new one.”

These are some useful updates, which associate with the raft of adjustments and tweaks that YouTube introduced earlier this week. None of those adjustments are enormous, however all of them add to key parts of the app, and can make it simpler to handle your YouTube content material, each on desktop and cellular.