Here’s what’s rolling out on @YouTube this week: 🎥 Live Practice Mode, giving @YouTubeCreators a private space to rehearse their mobile setup and stream before going public. 🌍 Expanded Premium Lite to 25 new countries and regions, including Nepal, Bangladesh and Hong Kong. 🔒 Lock your account on shared TV screens with a 4-digit PIN to keep your viewing history and recommendations private.

Several new updates shipped across @YouTube this month, from creative tools to new ways to watch: ⁉️ Ask YouTube conversational search on desktop for U.S. users. 🎬 Show, season and episode organization for @YouTubeCreators to make binging easier. 🖼️ Custom thumbnail tools, including custom uploads for Shorts and thumbnail generation inside Ask Studio. 🏈 @espn account linking with @YouTubeTV credentials, the first step in giving subscribers access to ESPN Unlimited content on the ESPN app, with even more to come this fall. 💎 Gifts and Jewels in 45 new countries, including Japan, India and the UK. 🎵 Playlist curation inside @Google Search's AI Mode, instantly saved to @youtubemusic. 🛝 AI creations inside the Recent Generations tab in the AI Playground. ♥️ Communities on desktop, featuring viewer quote posts, creator hearts and Community-only posts. 📺 Shorts tab on TV screens, making it easy to jump straight into short-form content from the living room. 🛍️ Shopping Affiliate Program in the UK, letting creators tag products in their videos. 🛡️ Supervised kid accounts in MENA and Türkiye, including a custom Shorts feed timer.

Today, we’re announcing that starting in early 2027, @YouTube Premium subscribers in the U.S. will get @peacock Premium included with their membership. 🦚 👏 We’re excited to expand our partnership with @NBCUniversal, bringing new benefits to YouTube Premium members and extending our multi-year distribution agreement for @YouTubeTV. Together, we’re giving viewers more of the content they love in one place, including the creators, artists and communities that make YouTube unique alongside Peacock’s live sports, hit movies and popular shows.

What’s new across @YouTube this week: ♥️ Communities are now on desktop, featuring viewer quote posts, creator hearts and Community-only posts to bring fans and @YouTubeCreators closer together. 📺 We've added a Shorts tab to left-side navigation menu on TV screens, making it easy to jump straight into short-form content from the living room. 🛍️ Our Shopping Affiliate Program is rolling out in the UK, letting creators tag products in their videos so viewers can shop their favorite brands instantly. 🖼️ New thumbnail tools are making their way to creators, including custom uploads for Shorts on desktop and VOD thumbnail generation inside Ask Studio.

🚀 Custom thumbnails for Shorts are rolling out to all @YouTube Partner Program creators. It’s one of the most requested features from @YouTubeCreators and gives you even more control over how your Shorts are presented. Excited for this one!

What an unforgettable @FIFAWorldCup!⚽🔥 
Here’s how the world followed the tournament on @YouTube: 📺 1.7B+ unique global viewers and 200B+ lifetime views of World Cup related content 🔥 2.5B+ views from our creator cohort who brought iconic commentary and perspectives throughout the tournament 🏆 10M+ live views for our first Creator Cup Congrats on an incredible championship, Spain! And a huge thanks to our partners, creators and teams at YouTube who made the fan experience unlike any other.