The YouTube Studio Beta: A Mixed Bag of Features and Limitations

As I delved into the YouTube Studio Beta, I was excited to see what new features and tools were being introduced to help creators manage their channels more efficiently. However, my experience with the beta was a mixed bag, with some features and functionalities falling short of my expectations.

One of the first things that struck me was the lack of live streaming capabilities within the studio. I was hoping to be able to stream from this interface, but unfortunately, it seemed to be missing in action. This made it difficult for me to assess the full potential of the beta and its impact on creating content. However, I did appreciate the ability to edit individual steps, which is a neat feature that allows for quick editing and inline changes.

The analytics section was another area that caught my attention. I was surprised to see that I could access this data even before going live with a video, which is a nice touch. The analytics section also offered some interesting insights into view counts, watch time, and audience engagement. However, clicking on certain features seemed to be broken, leaving me feeling like I was stuck in an infinite loop.

One of the biggest disappointments for me was the lack of a full-fledged editor within the studio. While I appreciated the ability to edit individual steps, I couldn't help but feel that this was just a taste of what could be. I missed the ability to tag videos, which is an essential tool for any creator looking to manage their content effectively. It seemed like a major oversight on YouTube's part.

Another feature that didn't quite live up to my expectations was the inability to enable or disable dark mode within the studio. While this is not necessarily a deal-breaker, it felt like a small but important feature that was missing from the beta. I couldn't help but wonder why this wasn't included in the first place.

Despite these limitations, I did appreciate some of the other features and tools that were available within the studio. For example, I liked the idea of being able to join an actual testing forum for the beta, which allowed me to provide feedback and suggestions directly to YouTube.

Overall, my experience with the YouTube Studio Beta was a mixed bag. While there were some exciting features and tools on offer, there were also several areas where they fell short. As my buddy Lagoon Doe so aptly put it, "this may be one of those things where it's like okay this would be great if they added in the rest of features and then just left them out altogether." I hope that YouTube will take this feedback on board and continue to refine and expand upon the studio.

Joining an Actual Beta Testing Process

As part of my experience with the YouTube Studio Beta, I was also able to join an actual testing process for the beta. This was a unique opportunity to provide feedback and suggestions directly to YouTube, which I was grateful for. According to the YouTube website, creators can find more information about the beta by visiting youtube.com/creator. From there, they will be able to see if the new YouTube Studio button is available in their corner of the screen.

To access the beta, simply click on the new YouTube Studio button and you'll be taken directly to the testing interface. I found this process to be relatively straightforward, although it did take a bit of time to figure out how to navigate the different features and tools within the studio.

Using the New YouTube Studio Beta

As I explored the new YouTube Studio beta, I couldn't help but feel like there was something missing. While the tools and features that were available seemed promising, I couldn't shake the feeling that this was just a taste of what could be. One feature that did catch my eye was the ability to search for videos using keywords.

For example, if I typed in "PSP" into the search bar, it pulled up all of my video titles that contained that keyword. This is a nice touch, and one that I appreciated. However, clicking on certain features seemed to be broken, leaving me feeling like I was stuck in an infinite loop.

I also noticed that there were no comments or engagement tools available within the studio. As someone who relies heavily on comments to engage with their audience, this was a major oversight for me. I missed being able to comment and respond to my viewers from within the studio itself.

The Importance of Comment Tools

As someone who creates content regularly, I can tell you that having the right tools at your fingertips is essential for creating an engaging experience for your audience. While the YouTube Studio beta has some exciting features and tools on offer, it's clear that there are still several areas where they fall short.

One feature that I missed dearly was the ability to pin comments within the studio. This would have allowed me to quickly and easily respond to comments without having to leave the interface altogether. I can only imagine how much time and effort this could save for creators like myself who rely on comments to drive engagement with their audience.

The Value of the YouTube Studio Beta

As I explored the new YouTube Studio beta, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and anticipation about what the future might hold. While there were certainly some limitations and areas where they fell short, I believe that this is an important step in the right direction for creators like myself.

By providing more tools and features to help us manage our channels effectively, YouTube is taking a major step towards empowering its creators and giving them the resources they need to succeed. Whether or not this beta becomes the standard for all creators will depend on how well it continues to evolve and expand in the future.

Conclusion

My experience with the YouTube Studio Beta was a mixed bag of features and limitations. While there were some exciting tools and functionalities on offer, I couldn't help but feel like something was missing. Despite these limitations, I believe that this is an important step in the right direction for creators like myself, and I look forward to seeing how it continues to evolve in the future.

If you're a creator looking to manage your channel more efficiently, I would definitely recommend giving the YouTube Studio Beta a try. While there are certainly some areas where they fall short, I believe that this is an exciting step towards creating a more powerful and intuitive interface for creators.

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creative here one of the really cool things about the layout is the fact that it displays different aspects or it adapts to different aspect ratios depending on your screen size and so for example this is a 21 by 9 video that's displayed in proper 21 by 9 or whatever widescreen aspect ratio it is I don't think it's proper 21 by 9 but it will do full 21 by 9 it'll do cinematic aspect ratios it will do 4 by 3 16 by 10 and so on which is why I always harp on editing and rendering in the proper aspect ratio instead of adding black bars yourself because if black bars were put at the top and bottom of this video it would be this size just with half the screen missing so that's really cool but they finally started rolling out a new back-end so this is what the dashboard usually looks like and you have all these sections on the side here what you're going to notice are missing and there's this overview dashboard page and then you go in it's going to take forever to load but you get the idea of what I mean I'm sure you've looked at the YouTube back end before if you're at all interested in this usually looks a little something like this well they've changed it a little bit here and so this is the default page this is the videos page and it's laid out kind of interesting you get you know you get the normal categories here you get the title you get to edit every individual step of the process which is kind of neat what Publix and what publicity state it's in whether or not it's been monetized or D monetize the upload date views comments and you can click on it to view comments and then it actually shows the like to dislike ratio instead of just the number of likes and then you hover over it and that is kind of neat and again you click on this O middle click here and you can see just a list of comments for that video which is pretty handy and then you can view the analytics just for that video which is kind of neat as well I kind of appreciate this lol @ 0 estimated revenue that's because it not been a full 48 hours since the video gun live but you get the idea pretty neat but I do have some issues with it and we're going to I'm just going to give you an overview and list a couple things that I do feel are missing first of all it only shows the upload date and since I upload a lot of videos in bulk it doesn't update to show the Gil live date like when it actually went public so both of the you know all of these were uploaded on July 31st this one doesn't go live till next week and yet it's still going to show July 31st as the upload date forever through here which is a minor annoyance but that's ok if we head over to analytics it is a lot more visual and a lot nicer to look at you get a lot more charts you get a lot more graphs it you know you get a lot nicer of a view and it just makes it easier to consume and hopefully makes it easier for people to use but parts are missing and then the last section over here though is comments and this section is really nice and I'll go ahead and make everything fullscreen so you can see which I mean this is mostly the same but they introduced the heart button for loving a comment because liking and disliking doesn't actually save okay that's neat on the old layout here I'll actually show you real quick you can see here you only get to pick one or the other which seems obvious but on the old aloha loadout layout not loadout if you go to a comment you can dislike and alike it up they fix up there we go yeah you can like and just like it and then if i refresh the dislikes don't save like this likes on comments mean nothing they do not save anything whatsoever it looks like in the new layout that might be different maybe not actually here I can do that I can just like that comment refresh the dislike saved oh and they're just like saved from the Olaf remote layout so that is cool okay so they gente have updated and then you can hit here you still have the usual reporting tools you can reply to it right here I don't know what that is so replies if there's been replies to it so you can come to different comments it hides it looks like it hides a lot of the replies and then you can show it here so that is neat help for review no longer shows a pointless comment count that for me shows an incorrect number and then this contains a link so I can just report spam spam link a gun oh it does still think there's comments that there's not though but you see here that is all that is available which seems like a basic set of tools but it's missing playlists playlists management you can't bulk it you can bulk bulk you can't bulk edit videos there's no copyright notices copyright strikes none of the channel management stuff you can't change upload defaults you can't set up you know your branding your little overlay thing you can't like there's a lot missing here there's no live streaming whatsoever so it's missing a lot but it looks pretty neat and I can appreciate it and I like that you can edit each individual step here now and it's like a quick edit a quick inline editor for the titles and descriptions and stuff I can appreciate that although it's a minor annoyance that that isn't a full what happens if I click this oh it goes to analytics that is neat and kind of cool that's funny that I have all this data for a video that hasn't gone live yet well haha but it's still missing a lot of tools oh and clicking back a bunch is not taking me anywhere that's interesting it's not going back anymore if I click that alright but there's no big editor like where are the tags I can't even edit tags from this we're what I didn't actually know that I didn't expect that that's a little ridiculous so you can't even edit tags from this edit menu so it's we need start and I wanted to show it to you and about YouTube studio beta we'll see what they have to say yeah you can send feedback I sent a big feedback thing although I was leaving out a couple things but you can go to youtube.com slash creator I believe to try it out and then it will show a new YouTube studio button in the bottom left corner I can show you that over here click that button it takes you to the new one it's kind of cool and they're clearly working on getting things integrated into the new layout and that was the big issue that I had was that they introduced this new layout for watching videos but then whenever you switch to the back end it went to the old method and then it that would make it inconsistent whether or not you watched a video following that whether it's stuck with the new layout or not so this is kind of neat you can't enable or disable dark mode from here it's not got the same controls because it's kind of an isolated beta page and then you can join an actual they always have a little forum for the beta testing itself so kind of neat but missing a lot of features so I am hopeful but as my buddy Lagoon doe said this may be one of those things where it's like okay this would be great if they added in the rest of features and then in before they wind up just making this the thing without all the features and you keep having to go back to the old one to get to those features or they just leave them out altogether because YouTube so just wanted to show this beta to you guys kind of neat let me know what you think about it in the comment section down below I'm interested to hear what you guys think again I have a list of things that it is currently missing and if you happen to notice anything else do let me know I do need to add can't edit tags for a video I don't know it's a sorry I would think since they have this whole little banner thing up here and this you can search for your video so if I type in PSP it's not going to search YouTube it's actually going to pull up your videos which is really neat I really like this so I click that it's going to pull up the comments part that's pretty cool but I do think if they're going to have this little header thing here especially if this is going to change dynamically keep the banner the channel banner would be kind of neat might be a waste of space or data to load but I think it's kind of neat I do think though if they're going to have all these extra comment tools and let you finally love comments from this page and things like that I would like to see an option to pin comments especially if you're in a per video thing I would love to just be able to go pin instead of having to pull up the video page giving myself fake watch time or hurting my watch time if I click off of it to just pin a comment this is where the comet tools should always be and it doesn't ever make sense not to have them there so hope you enjoyed this video hit that like button if you enjoyed don't forget to subscribe all that stuff I'll see you in the next one this video is brought to you by - bunny the best tool you can get to manage your YouTube channel update videos in bulk syndicate to social media and backup your metadata and more all with a simple browser extension head on over to ebook voxcom slash - buddy to download it for free and learn more - buddy download for free learn more I love it a post box is a patreon supported production our videos would simply not be possible without the support and generosity of our patrons whom you can see on screen right now if you'd like to join the inner circle and get early access to videos among other things go to patreon.com/scishowhey everybody Adam or me Botox here with a quick little update video I've been invited and accepted apparently into a beta program for a new youtube studio back-end and so I wanted to talk about it a little bit here and kind of show what's different and what's going on with it if you weren't aware I can yeah i can pull up a video here youtube's layout has changed well not permanently not for everyone yet but they've released a new update for everyone to try its rolled out you can actually apply to it I think at the very bottom it's not going to show it here at the very bottom of the normal YouTube page there's one of these gives you the option to try the new layout and it looks like this and it's material design it has a dark mode and a light mode I keep the dark mode on light mode is here looks mostly the same just lighter of course but one of the really cool things about at which I meant to pull up ahead of time so I'm going to have to get a little creative here one of the really cool things about the layout is the fact that it displays different aspects or it adapts to different aspect ratios depending on your screen size and so for example this is a 21 by 9 video that's displayed in proper 21 by 9 or whatever widescreen aspect ratio it is I don't think it's proper 21 by 9 but it will do full 21 by 9 it'll do cinematic aspect ratios it will do 4 by 3 16 by 10 and so on which is why I always harp on editing and rendering in the proper aspect ratio instead of adding black bars yourself because if black bars were put at the top and bottom of this video it would be this size just with half the screen missing so that's really cool but they finally started rolling out a new back-end so this is what the dashboard usually looks like and you have all these sections on the side here what you're going to notice are missing and there's this overview dashboard page and then you go in it's going to take forever to load but you get the idea of what I mean I'm sure you've looked at the YouTube back end before if you're at all interested in this usually looks a little something like this well they've changed it a little bit here and so this is the default page this is the videos page and it's laid out kind of interesting you get you know you get the normal categories here you get the title you get to edit every individual step of the process which is kind of neat what Publix and what publicity state it's in whether or not it's been monetized or D monetize the upload date views comments and you can click on it to view comments and then it actually shows the like to dislike ratio instead of just the number of likes and then you hover over it and that is kind of neat and again you click on this O middle click here and you can see just a list of comments for that video which is pretty handy and then you can view the analytics just for that video which is kind of neat as well I kind of appreciate this lol @ 0 estimated revenue that's because it not been a full 48 hours since the video gun live but you get the idea pretty neat but I do have some issues with it and we're going to I'm just going to give you an overview and list a couple things that I do feel are missing first of all it only shows the upload date and since I upload a lot of videos in bulk it doesn't update to show the Gil live date like when it actually went public so both of the you know all of these were uploaded on July 31st this one doesn't go live till next week and yet it's still going to show July 31st as the upload date forever through here which is a minor annoyance but that's ok if we head over to analytics it is a lot more visual and a lot nicer to look at you get a lot more charts you get a lot more graphs it you know you get a lot nicer of a view and it just makes it easier to consume and hopefully makes it easier for people to use but parts are missing and then the last section over here though is comments and this section is really nice and I'll go ahead and make everything fullscreen so you can see which I mean this is mostly the same but they introduced the heart button for loving a comment because liking and disliking doesn't actually save okay that's neat on the old layout here I'll actually show you real quick you can see here you only get to pick one or the other which seems obvious but on the old aloha loadout layout not loadout if you go to a comment you can dislike and alike it up they fix up there we go yeah you can like and just like it and then if i refresh the dislikes don't save like this likes on comments mean nothing they do not save anything whatsoever it looks like in the new layout that might be different maybe not actually here I can do that I can just like that comment refresh the dislike saved oh and they're just like saved from the Olaf remote layout so that is cool okay so they gente have updated and then you can hit here you still have the usual reporting tools you can reply to it right here I don't know what that is so replies if there's been replies to it so you can come to different comments it hides it looks like it hides a lot of the replies and then you can show it here so that is neat help for review no longer shows a pointless comment count that for me shows an incorrect number and then this contains a link so I can just report spam spam link a gun oh it does still think there's comments that there's not though but you see here that is all that is available which seems like a basic set of tools but it's missing playlists playlists management you can't bulk it you can bulk bulk you can't bulk edit videos there's no copyright notices copyright strikes none of the channel management stuff you can't change upload defaults you can't set up you know your branding your little overlay thing you can't like there's a lot missing here there's no live streaming whatsoever so it's missing a lot but it looks pretty neat and I can appreciate it and I like that you can edit each individual step here now and it's like a quick edit a quick inline editor for the titles and descriptions and stuff I can appreciate that although it's a minor annoyance that that isn't a full what happens if I click this oh it goes to analytics that is neat and kind of cool that's funny that I have all this data for a video that hasn't gone live yet well haha but it's still missing a lot of tools oh and clicking back a bunch is not taking me anywhere that's interesting it's not going back anymore if I click that alright but there's no big editor like where are the tags I can't even edit tags from this we're what I didn't actually know that I didn't expect that that's a little ridiculous so you can't even edit tags from this edit menu so it's we need start and I wanted to show it to you and about YouTube studio beta we'll see what they have to say yeah you can send feedback I sent a big feedback thing although I was leaving out a couple things but you can go to youtube.com slash creator I believe to try it out and then it will show a new YouTube studio button in the bottom left corner I can show you that over here click that button it takes you to the new one it's kind of cool and they're clearly working on getting things integrated into the new layout and that was the big issue that I had was that they introduced this new layout for watching videos but then whenever you switch to the back end it went to the old method and then it that would make it inconsistent whether or not you watched a video following that whether it's stuck with the new layout or not so this is kind of neat you can't enable or disable dark mode from here it's not got the same controls because it's kind of an isolated beta page and then you can join an actual they always have a little forum for the beta testing itself so kind of neat but missing a lot of features so I am hopeful but as my buddy Lagoon doe said this may be one of those things where it's like okay this would be great if they added in the rest of features and then in before they wind up just making this the thing without all the features and you keep having to go back to the old one to get to those features or they just leave them out altogether because YouTube so just wanted to show this beta to you guys kind of neat let me know what you think about it in the comment section down below I'm interested to hear what you guys think again I have a list of things that it is currently missing and if you happen to notice anything else do let me know I do need to add can't edit tags for a video I don't know it's a sorry I would think since they have this whole little banner thing up here and this you can search for your video so if I type in PSP it's not going to search YouTube it's actually going to pull up your videos which is really neat I really like this so I click that it's going to pull up the comments part that's pretty cool but I do think if they're going to have this little header thing here especially if this is going to change dynamically keep the banner the channel banner would be kind of neat might be a waste of space or data to load but I think it's kind of neat I do think though if they're going to have all these extra comment tools and let you finally love comments from this page and things like that I would like to see an option to pin comments especially if you're in a per video thing I would love to just be able to go pin instead of having to pull up the video page giving myself fake watch time or hurting my watch time if I click off of it to just pin a comment this is where the comet tools should always be and it doesn't ever make sense not to have them there so hope you enjoyed this video hit that like button if you enjoyed don't forget to subscribe all that stuff I'll see you in the next one this video is brought to you by - bunny the best tool you can get to manage your YouTube channel update videos in bulk syndicate to social media and backup your metadata and more all with a simple browser extension head on over to ebook voxcom slash - buddy to download it for free and learn more - buddy download for free learn more I love it a post box is a patreon supported production our videos would simply not be possible without the support and generosity of our patrons whom you can see on screen right now if you'd like to join the inner circle and get early access to videos among other things go to patreon.com/scishow\n"