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YouTube’s New Creator Tools Include Donations, Fan-Submitted Subtitles, And A Mobile Creator Studio App

TechCrunch provides an overview of the new YouTube tools:

• YouTube Creator Studio: Available now on Android, coming soon to iOS. The Creator Studio app will give creators the ability to view analytics, manage their videos, and other stuff.
• Audio Library Sound Effects: Creators now have access to royalty-free sound effects so they don’t have to create their own zombie screams or whatever. Instead, future sound effects on YouTube will all sound the same.
• 60 FPS Video: Coming soon, YouTubers will be able to share videos at 60 frames per second, for people who care about that sort of thing.
• Fan Funding: It’s like donations or Kickstarter or Indiegogo for your creative endeavors! But right there on your YouTube. Already in testing.
• Creator Credits: Because everyone on YouTube is collaborating with everyone else, YouTube is now enabling collaborators to name and link to their fellow collaborators in a way that viewers might actually click through. Another “coming soon” feature.
• Fan-Submitted Subtitles: So that even if viewers don’t speak the same language, they can still watch (and hopefully enjoy) your videos. In the coming months.
• Cards: YouTube wants to improve the way it displays links on videos. So it’ll at some point replace annotations with cards, which will work across desktop, mobile phones, and tablets.
• Playlists: YouTube will soon give creators more creative ways to create playlists to make their videos more easily discoverable.

See the full story here: http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/26/youtube-new-creator-tools/