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What YouTube’s Biggest Changes Mean for Your Channel - Made On YouTube 2026 (Video)
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Google, Internet, Videos,
Every time I publish a video, I make a bet I can't check. Should my iOS 27 video open with a quick overview, or should feature number one start the second you hit play? At Made on YouTube 2026, YouTube announced a way to test that, and I sat down with creator liaison Rene Ritchie and TechMe0ut to go through it and everything else on stage.
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XREAL’s Aura Finally Has a Price. It’s $1,279, and You Can’t Buy One Yet.
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Wearables, Google,
XREAL has been taking deposits on the Aura without telling anyone what it would cost. Today the company filled in the blank. The Android XR glasses start at $1,279, and the larger configuration is $1,499.
If that sounds like phone money, it is. The catch is that you probably can't spend it yet. Preorders opened only to people who already put down a reservation deposit. Everybody else waits for what XREAL calls "the coming weeks," which is not a date.
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On Friday, Free Gemini Is Just Flash-Lite. Paying $4.99 Still Won’t Get You Pro.
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Google, Software, Artificial Intelligence,
Three days from now, the free version of Gemini runs exactly one model. Google's own support page has the table: starting October 9, accounts without a paid plan get Flash-Lite, and that is the whole list. Flash and Pro move behind a subscription.
A cheap subscription does not fix it either. Google AI Plus, at $4.99 a month, picks up Flash and still does not get Pro. The only way to keep Pro is Google AI Pro at $19.99.
Google’s Pixel Watch Can Now Estimate Your Blood Pressure
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Wearables, Google, Software,
Google's Health Guardian tools start rolling out to the Google Health app this week, which means your Pixel Watch is about to start estimating your blood pressure. It reads your pulse and your motion all month, with no cuff and no calibration, and then tells you whether your numbers have been drifting higher. The first reports land in early October.
That word "estimating" is carrying a lot of weight. Blood pressure trends, insulin resistance trends and sleep breathing quality are all free on the Pixel Watch 3, 4 and 5. Google's own fine print calls all three general wellness features, says they cannot diagnose anything, and says they are not a replacement for the cuff in your bathroom drawer.
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YouTube Will Build a Feed From Your Description
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Google, Internet, Artificial Intelligence,
Your YouTube homepage is a guess. Most days it's a good one, built out of everything you've watched, skipped, and let autoplay through at one in the morning. It is still YouTube deciding what you're in the mood for, though, and soon you'll be able to tell it directly instead.
That's the headline feature in a batch YouTube announced today. Custom feeds let you describe what you want in a conversational prompt, and YouTube builds a tab for it. The examples run to a feed for workouts, one for long documentaries, and one that surfaces new creators in a niche you care about. It's coming to web, mobile and TV, in the US first, and the only timing attached to it was "soon."
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YouTube Studio Will Soon Test Three Cuts of Your Video to Find the Best Hook
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Google, Software,
Every creator has an intro they aren't sure about. You cut the cold open, put it back, trim four seconds, and publish whichever version was on screen when you ran out of patience. YouTube Studio is about to let your audience make that call.
The biggest Studio news from Made on YouTube today is video A/B testing, which lets you run up to three cuts of the same video to see which hook performs best. YouTube says it's coming soon. It arrives with a batch of AI additions to Studio: feedback on early drafts, thumbnails generated to match your channel, and thumbnails that change depending on who's looking.
YouTube Is Putting a Gemini Editor in Shorts That Trims Your Pauses for You
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Google, Artificial Intelligence,
Most of editing a Short is grunt work. You scrub through a clip to find where you stopped saying "um," you nudge a cut until it lands on the beat, and you shuffle clips around until the thing moves fast enough that nobody swipes away. YouTube wants a chatbot to do that part.
At Made on YouTube today, YouTube announced a conversational editing assistant built on Gemini for Shorts and the YouTube Create app. You start with one of its suggested prompts or type your own, and it builds a first draft. From there you keep chatting, and it offers personalized suggestions: trim the pauses, reorder clips for better pacing, reorder frames, and trim music and sync it to the beat. You can jump out to the regular timeline and edit by hand at any point, then come back to the chat. YouTube didn't say when it ships or in which countries.
YouTube Shopping Is Headed to 35 Countries, and Ask YouTube Wants to Answer Your Shopping Questions
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Google, Internet,
If you've ever bought a pair of headphones because someone held them up to a camera and talked about the bass for eleven minutes, you already use YouTube as a shopping search engine. At Made on YouTube today, the company leaned into that from both ends: more ways for creators to get paid when you buy something, and an AI that will answer the shopping question for you.
The creator half is the more concrete one. The YouTube Shopping affiliate program, which lets creators tag products in their videos and earn a commission on sales, is expanding to 35 countries by the end of the year. YouTube says more than 1.3 million creators are already in the program, and that gross merchandise volume through it has grown 13x over the last two years.
YouTube Music Is Getting an AI Voice That Pitches You Podcasts Every Week
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Google, Music,
There are more podcasts than you will ever get to, and the one you'd love is usually the one nobody told you about. YouTube's answer, announced at Made on YouTube today, is an AI voice that tells you about a few of them once a week.
It's called Your Podcast Lineup, and it lives in the YouTube Music app. YouTube describes it as a personalized AI audio guide: a quick weekly spoken preview of recommended shows that explains why you'll like them, then jumps into suggested episodes. YouTube calls the experience "completely eyes-optional and hands-free," so it's built for the commute or the dishes. It's coming soon to YouTube Music and Premium subscribers worldwide, and 9to5Google reports testing starts later this year.
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YouTube Live Borrows TikTok’s Gift Battles, and Most of It Waits Until 2027
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Google, Internet,
If you've spent any time in TikTok LIVE, you know the split screen: two creators, a score bar, and viewers sending gifts to push their side ahead. YouTube wants that on its own platform, and at Made on YouTube on Wednesday it laid out how it plans to get there.
Timing is the catch. Of the four Live features YouTube announced, one starts rolling out later this year. The other three are dated 2027, and one of those is a pilot. YouTube already has the viewers. It says more than 600 million logged-in viewers watched live content (archives included) each day on average in August 2026.