On Tuesday, YouTube announced a series of new features coming to YouTube Studio, which over 30 million creators use to manage their channels and track their analytics and revenue each month. Created on YouTube events, the company has announced new update tools such as AI-driven chatbots for support, an inspiration tab, title A/B testing capabilities, automatic dubbing and portrait detection tools.
Many of these features are based on tools previously presented or tested in small groups, but are now more widely deployed.
The most interesting addition of these is the portrait detection feature, first announced in 2024 and expanded to a handful of top creators like Beast earlier this year. Now, the company says it brings technology to open beta available to all YouTube partner program creators, namely content creators who meet certain subscribers and display thresholds to monetize their channels. These creators can use facial similarities to detect, manage and approve fraudulent video deletion. This helps them protect their image and reputation and ensure that viewers are not misunderstood, YouTube says.
Another new tool, Ask Studio, offers an AI-powered chatbot assistant that can guide users and answer questions about their accounts, for example, how to run the latest videos and what their audience says about their editing styles. The tool, according to YouTube, is intended to provide actionable insights to creators.
(This feature was different from another “ASK” AI tool for viewers tested by YouTube in late 2023, allowing users to ask questions about the videos they were viewing.)
One feature that lets you get updates is the Inspiration tab in YouTube Studio. Published at last year’s event, this tab helps creators leverage AI to induce ideas and come up with video concepts. It is currently being updated with new ways to generate ideas, including a list of suggested topics tailored to each creator’s channel and a set of nine responses to all AI prompts, helping creators build content plans. The company notes that you can combine topics or add your own topics along the brainstorming side. This feature also explains why you make certain suggestions based on audience insights and actions.
YouTube Studio also shows you how to test and compare up to three different video titles and thumbnails as an update to the A/B test feature that was expanded the following year by selecting the selector in 2023. According to the company, creators have used the test feature over 15 million times so far (a metric that appears to be a little small given that 20 million videos are uploaded to the site every day).
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Additionally, creators can collaborate with up to five videos in one video that will be displayed to viewers of all participating creators. The feature is intended to boost engagement and help creators reach new audiences, but the revenue generated from the video comes from the channels that post the video, YouTube says.
The company also said it will begin testing lip-sync technology to make the auto-dubbing feature more realistic. Today, YouTube supports dubbed content in 20 different languages, and in the coming months, it will look more natural by improving translated videos and matching lip movements to the dubbed audio.
YouTube notes that, on average, viewers spent more than 75% of their time watching the auto-laying video compared to the original, based on comparisons run from December 2024 to August 2025.
