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.

Here’s a few new updates launching on @YouTube this week: 💎 Gifts and Jewels are expanding to 45 new countries, including Japan, India, and the UK, giving creators another way to earn while building vibrant and engaged communities. 🛡️ Supervised kid accounts are now live for families in MENA and Türkiye, introducing parental tools like a custom Shorts feed timer to help manage screen time. ⁉️ Ask YouTube, our new search experience, is available on desktop for U.S. users, making it easy to find videos and explore new ideas with natural questions. 🎬 Creators in the YouTube Partner Program can now organize their videos into structured shows, seasons and episodes to make binging easier for their fans.

Happy 250th birthday, America! 🇺🇸 Proof that some of the best stories are long-form 😉 Our logo today celebrates this historic milestone. Here's to the next chapter of innovation, creativity and progress.

What's the CEO of @YouTube reading this summer? @nealmohan reveals his surprising pick: 'Night People' by super DJ @markronson. Mohan's isn't even the most surprising of our summer reading recommendations from 100 notable people -

This month at @YouTube, we launched: 🔎 New Studio search tools that use AI to make it easier for @YouTubeCreators to find and manage comments 👑 Top Fan exclusives, letting official artists channels share exclusive content with the most engaged fans of their music ♥️ Shorts updates including clear screen mode, speed controls and more precise curation tools ⚡Upgraded video creation tools with the latest Gemini Omni model in Shorts and the Create app 🛍️ YouTube Shopping in Argentina and Mexico 💰 More flexibility for channel membership pricing 📱A simplified mobile watch page with a cleaner layout and redesigned icons 🤝 In-app video sharing and messaging to more locations 📺 @foxone and @peacock on Primetime Channels 🎤 A new cohort of talented artists in @youtubemusic's Foundry program 🎶 Music for image posts and carousels, letting creators include up to 15 seconds of popular songs

For years, @MarkRober's hands-on approach to science has inspired millions to stay curious, build, experiment and see the world a little differently. This fall, we’re partnering with Mark and the @NSTA to bring that same spirit into classrooms with the launch of Class @crunchlabs on @YouTube, a free science curriculum designed to help students learn by doing.

This week we welcomed @peacock Premium Plus to Primetime Channels in the U.S. As the @FIFAWorldCup continues, Peacock subscribers can watch every match with Spanish-language coverage from @Telemundo, all on @YouTube. It’s another step forward toward giving viewers more choice in how they watch the sports, shows and entertainment they love.

It was incredible watching @justinbieber perform live at Coachella as he revisited his @YouTube history and turned a live performance into a shared cultural moment. ICYMI, you can now catch his full performance on YouTube 👇

Here’s what we shipped at @YouTube this week: 👑 Launched Top Fan exclusives, letting official music artists channels on YouTube share exclusive content directly with their biggest fans. 🔎 Introduced new search tools in Studio that use AI to make it easier for @YouTubeCreators to find and manage comments. ❤️ New Shorts updates to tune your feed with clear screen mode, speed playback settings, a new heart icon and more precise curation tools. ⚡️ Upgraded video creation tools with the latest Gemini Omni model in Shorts and the Create app, allowing users to combine text prompts with reference images to create brand new videos with better quality, more engaging motion and longer 10-second video outputs. 📈 Announced new Gemini-powered insights tools at @Cannes_Lions to help brands spot emerging cultural shifts earlier and partner with the creators driving them.

100,000 @YouTube subscribers 🎉 I’ve spent years congratulating @YouTubeCreators on reaching subscriber milestones. It’s pretty cool to experience it firsthand! Thanks to everyone who has subscribed and stay tuned for more.

Big progress today. The Senate Judiciary Committee just passed the NO FAKES Act, an important milestone for protecting creator likeness in the age of AI. Lyor Cohen and Harvey Mason Jr. laid out why this matters so much.

This week at @youtube: 🛍️ We started to roll out the YouTube Shopping affiliate program in Argentina and Mexico with @MercadoLibre. 💰 Creators can now update channel membership pricing for new members once every 12 months. We’re also updating our pricing to reflect exchange rates.

The @ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 is set to bring together cricket fans around the world. 🏏 Looking forward to helping even more people experience the tournament through live matches, highlights and more on @YouTube.