YouTube's Replace song tool can now make copyright-safe instrumentals for creators in most countries outside the European Economic Area, not just the US. Streams Charts counted 20.9M hours watched on US election night across YouTube, Twitch, Kick and Rumble, and 80% of it was on YouTube.
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Replace song can make new music outside the US
When a video gets an audio copyright claim, the Replace song tool in YouTube Studio now has a Create button under the Suggestions tab. It makes four royalty-free instrumental tracks, each three minutes long, and you can loop them or change the volume on your timeline. Once the claimed audio is fully replaced with a generated track, the Content ID claim is removed on its own.
YouTube launched it for US creators earlier this year. On November 3, TeamYouTube said it's now open to creators in most countries outside the European Economic Area, so creators in the EU still can't use it. It only works in Studio on desktop for now, the tracks are instrumental only, and YouTube says they're meant for content you make on YouTube, not for other platforms.
If you're not sure whether a claim or a strike hit your video, our copyright claim vs strike guide covers the difference.
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Election night streams and the 12 hour line
Streams Charts counted 20.9M hours watched on US election night across YouTube, Twitch, Kick and Rumble. YouTube had 80% of it. NBC News alone had 21%. Its Kornacki Cam stream kept a camera on the network's data analyst all night, with more than 200k people watching live.
NBC News had planned 13 hours and ended at hour 10. The VOD is 10 hours 38 minutes long and had 6.2M views about two hours after the stream ended. Stopping early kept it under 12 hours, the length YouTube archives automatically. On November 3, TeamYouTube told a creator that streams over 12 hours might not be captured at all.
Sources: Streams Charts, the Kornacki Cam VOD, TeamYouTube on X.
Android app showed "Server Error 400"
On November 1 the YouTube app on Android started failing with a "Server Error 400" message. TeamYouTube said it was on it that morning and called it resolved early on November 2. If the error stayed, the fix was to reinstall the app or clear its storage, and both delete your downloaded videos. On November 3, TeamYouTube said some people still saw the error and a fix was in progress.
Hearts in vertical lives, Shorts from your old streams
YouTube's monthly Creator Roundup came out on October 30. Two of its updates touch live streams. One is updated reactions in vertical live streams, where viewers find the Heart in the menu at the top right, next to Share and the chat filters. The other is the Clips and Shorts tool in Studio, which cuts Shorts or clips out of your long videos and archived live streams. YouTube says you won't be penalized under its reused content rules for posting your own content this way. The tool's AI suggestions only work in 10 countries for now, including the US, the UK, Germany, Brazil and India.
Sources: YouTube Help: vertical live streams, YouTube Help: Clips and Shorts in YouTube Studio.
Animation channels lose YPP
A group of animation creators says 48 channels with 4.7M subscribers between them lost monetization under YouTube's Misleading Family Content policy. The channel that started the campaign makes kaiju battle animations. The policy also lets YouTube age restrict videos instead, which would leave the channels in YPP. As of November 6 YouTube hadn't answered them publicly. We hope YouTube takes a second look. (the creators' post on X, YouTube's policy page)
Kick
Kick published a page on November 5 that lists what verified streamers get. Their VODs stay up for 30 days instead of 7, they can ask for weekly payouts instead of monthly ones, and they get 24/7 live chat support. Verification is also the step before you can apply to the Kick Partner Program.
To apply, your channel needs at least 15 streamed hours, an average of 50 concurrent viewers, 100 unique chatters and 10 active subscriptions over the past 30 days. You also need two-factor authentication on, at least two VODs from the past 7 days and no Terms of Service violations in the past 30 days.
Seven days isn't long if you want to keep your streams. Our Kick VODs guide shows how to save them before they expire.
Discord
Discord gift cards are now sold in stores in the US, Canada, the UK, France, Italy and Spain. They pay for Nitro and items in the Discord Shop. (Discord blog)
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