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YouTube releases new AI features for creators within its Studio app

7:30 AM PDT · September 23, 2026

At its Made on YouTube annual event, YouTube announced new tools for YouTube Studio, the app creators use to manage their channels, aimed at helping them analyze their videos and grow their audiences. The updates include expanding Ask Studio, its AI-powered Q&A feature, to iOS and Android, as well as new features that provide feedback on drafts and create dynamic thumbnails.

The draft-feedback feature uses AI to look at a creator’s unpublished video and provide suggestions about pacing, structure, and storytelling. YouTube is also debuting a new research feed in the Studio app that shows creators what kind of content is working on the platform, so they can apply their own take on it.

Creators are typically picky about the preview images and titles they use for their videos. The Studio app will now let them generate thumbnails and titles based on a...

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