YouTube Updates: Subscribe Plus & Autodubbing - What Creators Need to Know

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We need to talk about YouTube’s Subscribe Plus experiment. For some users, YouTube has combined the subscribe button and the join button for memberships into a single button called “Subscribe Plus.” YouTube claims that users were confused by the dual buttons and the interface was cluttered, hence the decision to merge them. However, I find it even more confusing to have one button represent both a paid and unpaid feature in the same context.

If you have feedback on this change, please share it in the comments below or head over to the Creator Insider channel and leave your thoughts there. Either way, YouTube will see your feedback, and hopefully, we can convince them to separate the buttons and halt this experiment.

On a positive note, autodubbing, which was supposed to roll out by the end of April, is now available to 100% of creators in the YouTube Partner Program (YPP). This means there won’t be another wave of releases for now. So, if you’re not yet part of the YPP, you won’t have access to autodubbing.

A quick recap: this feature works in two ways. Firstly, if you upload a video in English, it will automatically translate the title and description into French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish, providing an English-to-other-languages conversion. Secondly, if you upload a video in any of those eight languages, it will automatically generate an English translation for the title, description, and an English autodubbing track.

However, uploading in German, for instance, won’t provide translations into French, Hindi, or Indonesian. To maximize this feature’s potential, consider speaking and uploading in English to access its full range of capabilities. Please remember that autodubbing is not the same as multilanguage audio; they are two distinct features. Autodubbing works automatically, whereas multilanguage audio involves creating a second track yourself and uploading it, which can be done in any language.

Unfortunately, we haven’t received an update from the team yet, so there’s no information on when this will be available to everyone. For now, we’ll consider it a closed beta feature, and we’ll keep you posted as soon as we have more details.

That’s all for this week. Thank you for joining me. Subscribe for more YouTube news, and we’ll see you next week. Take care!