YouTube’s rolling out Halloween-themed stickers for live-stream donations, AI-generated Q and A stickers, a brand new time restrict choice for Reels viewing, and extra, in its newest function replace.
First off, YouTube’s added some new performance for its dwell Q and A stickers, with creators now in a position to make the most of AI-generated, pre-filled questions for his or her Q and A prompts.
As you may see on this instance, now, you don’t even must provide you with a query on your Q and A stickers that you just add throughout your dwell broadcasts, as you may immediate YouTube to provide you with potential queries to ballot your viewers.
As defined by YouTube:
“This AI-powered, low-friction device makes it simple to have interaction with an viewers whereas nonetheless giving creators management over their remaining query and the way the sticker seems.”
I imply, you most likely ought to must provide you with your personal questions, as a method of extra genuine interplay. However for those who’re struggling to provide you with a immediate, now, you may let YouTube generate one for you.
YouTube says that new “good Q and A sticker” is now out there in English for cell app streams.
YouTube’s additionally increasing its Communities function to desktop, which implies that creators and viewers will now have the ability to view, submit, and have interaction with Neighborhood content material on desktop PCs.
YouTube’s Communities are text-based dialogue boards for channels, offering one other means to work together together with your subscribers and followers.

YouTube has expanded entry to Communities all year long, and now, it’s additionally bringing them to desktop PCs, additional extending their engagement potential.
YouTube’s additionally added a brand new time administration function for Shorts, which is able to allow customers to set a day by day restrict for how lengthy they will scroll the Shorts feed.
“When your set time restrict is reached within the Shorts feed, a message will seem reminding you. You’ll be prompted with an choice to dismiss or ignore your set restrict.”
So you may simply simply dismiss the warning immediate and scroll on, but it surely provides you with a method to probably restrict senseless scrolling, by reminding you of how a lot of your life you’re losing.
YouTube has the same “Take a Break” setting for common YouTube viewing, which is switched on be default for teen customers.
YouTube’s additionally launched some new Halloween-themed items for live-streams.

As you may see, YouTube’s including a number of Halloween sticker choices, together with “Gamer Ghost,” “Pumpkin Pet,” and “Witch Cat.”
“These at the moment are out there to all creators with gift-enabled vertical dwell streams, and can stay within the present picker till November third.”
So you may also add a spooky factor to your live-streams, for a restricted time.
It’s additionally supplied some prompts for Halloween video content material:

So for those who’re caught for concepts, these pointers may offer you a nudge in the suitable course.
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