How to Stay Relevant When YouTube Makes Changes Like This! ![rw-book-cover](https://wsrv.nl/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstorage.buzzsprout.com%2Fzuhpq2hlvz1dtrw8eu2kxqeuug9n%3F.jpg&w=512&h=512) ## Metadata - Author: [[TubeTalk: Your YouTube How-To Guide]] - Full Title: How to Stay Relevant When YouTube Makes Changes Like This! - Category: #podcasts - URL: https://share.snipd.com/episode/6bf6ac66-a355-4ac0-8bab-361187d59621 ## Document Notes ## Highlights - **AI's Growing Role in Content Creation** - AI tools for YouTube content creation are rapidly evolving and becoming very powerful. - While AI can replace some content creation, human creativity and connection remain vital to audiences. Transcript: Travis Updates but the things that have mostly been happening and we're just going to do this before we get into the questions um a lot of any we're not supposed to talk about i don't think so i Think we can talk about everything um a lot of AI updates I've noticed um the uh the shorts are going to start having um what is that called uh what's the YouTube version of AI what's that One thing called I don't even keep track of them anymore that's how that's how close attention i'm paying the youtube ai huh sure so yeah it's the it's the fake videos that you're seeing And the reason why i bring this up is because you're going to be able to use these tools and you already can obviously there's tons of um ai tools out there to make content with right there's Music there's videos there's pictures all types of stuff. And these are tools. And I think it's important to understand that they are tools. But by the same token, some weird stuff's going on, Jen. Jenn Some weird stuff is going on. Travis It is. And are you worried about AI taking over creativity and taking over content creation? What do you think about that? No, I'm not. Jenn I think there's some really, really funny stuff with AI that's been coming out lately. Like all the vlogs. Have you been seeing that side? Travis No, not like fake vlogs. Oh my God. Jenn Wait, where you have like Moses vlogging and you have like gorillas vlogging. Oh my God. It's so, it's so funny because it's like it is the best spoof on like youtubers like it's one i watched is actually like moses and he's like holding like his vlog cam and he's like yeah we're Travis All gathered here he's about to part the seas like oh yeah i have seen some of those i haven't seen that specific one but yes i have seen those so to me i'm like this is funny. Jenn Like, I don't think this is taking away from anyone else. Like, I think someone was really creative for making this. Travis Yeah. Jenn And I see, like, so many, like, guerrilla ones that are on, like, a bro hunting trip. And, like, I think that side is so entertaining right now. But to me, that's just different. And that's, like, fully its own thing. Like, I don't think you're not trying to be AI at that point. Travis Yeah, I think the as you know, in the YouTube growth niche, there's it's very, very black or white. You either are team AI or you're not. And you're very much hating everything that AI brings to the creative space. And I get both sides of it. I look at it prag but i also am concerned about some of the things so um guy i know austin evans just did a video where he video well not video called but he he sent a video to a bunch of his other Tech youtuber friends to react to and it was basically him saying he was going to stop doing youtube and some of them believed it but it was all ai the entire thing AI. And sometimes there's things that give stuff away, but it's getting so good now that content creation itself could be replaced. Now I've had this, I'm not going to say it's a conspiracy theory. I'm just going to say it's a statement. If YouTube could just be a content creation machine without the creators, it would become instantly more profitable, and it wouldn't have all those creative problems ([Time 0:00:57](https://share.snipd.com/snip/01a15011-fdf3-4d04-8498-f92c4eeca08e)) - **AI Spoof Vlogs Are Hilarious** - Jenn found AI-generated spoof vlogs featuring characters like Moses and gorillas hilarious. - These AI videos are creative parodies that offer distinct entertainment without replacing human creators. Transcript: Jenn Stuff is going on. Travis It is. And are you worried about AI taking over creativity and taking over content creation? What do you think about that? No, I'm not. Jenn I think there's some really, really funny stuff with AI that's been coming out lately. Like all the vlogs. Have you been seeing that side? Travis No, not like fake vlogs. Oh my God. Jenn Wait, where you have like Moses vlogging and you have like gorillas vlogging. Oh my God. It's so, it's so funny because it's like it is the best spoof on like youtubers like it's one i watched is actually like moses and he's like holding like his vlog cam and he's like yeah we're Travis All gathered here he's about to part the seas like oh yeah i have seen some of those i haven't seen that specific one but yes i have seen those so to me i'm like this is funny. Jenn Like, I don't think this is taking away from anyone else. Like, I think someone was really creative for making this. Travis Yeah. Jenn And I see, like, so many, like, guerrilla ones that are on, like, a bro hunting trip. And, like, I think that side is so entertaining right now. But to me, that's just different. And that's, like, fully its own thing. Like, I don't think you're not trying to be AI at that point. Travis Yeah, ([Time 0:01:56](https://share.snipd.com/snip/560a5d96-736c-4cd3-842b-61fcb233c5ab)) - **Use AI to Aid Script Research** - Leverage vidIQ's Script Writer tool to quickly research and draft video scripts. - Use AI-generated scripts as a foundation, then personalize and refine the content to keep your unique voice. Transcript: Travis A moment to do this. I want to show where AI can be very helpful. And here's what we're going to do. I'm going to show vidIQ. I think helpful is the key word, though. Jenn That's what you're saying is like helpful. It's like lean on AI for help, but not to actually create. Travis Correct. Yeah, I agree. Well, to a certain degree. Let me show you what I mean. Yeah. I mean, we're speaking for like, you know, the part we're talking about. Jenn Right. Not the AI Moses. Let's leave him. He's great. Travis Moses got to stay back. He's got to stay part in the Red Seas. If you're watching the YouTube video right now, I'm actually sharing my screen and we're going to look at the vidIQ tool. And the reason I'm doing this isn't because I'm trying to shill for the for the the I don't know the people that pay me which maybe it's all right if I shill for them um but I do want to point Something out something I've been using lately which is the script writer now what's interesting is I don't wait I can actually vouch for this because Travis has been blowing all of Us up about I know okay can I just say that up until this thing was created for us, I didn't use scripts. I don't like them. I'm like, ah, that's not creative. You can't be in the moment. Never use scripts in my life. This thing was created. We came up with VideoVidIQ using a whole bunch of AI stuff. And all of a sudden, I'm using it all the time. And I'll show you why I use it all the time. Even if you aren't someone who reads a script, it's actually really good at doing research for you for a video. So here's where we are. If you're watching the YouTube video, I highly recommend if you're not listening, if you're not watching it to watch this part, because this is really amazing. So Jen, I want you to give me either a working title about something or a main topic. And in real time here on the show, we're going to make a script about something. I'm going to show you how cool this is. And this is available if you use vidIQ. And again, I'm not doing it just because I'm shilling this, but because I'm thoroughly impressed by this and use it now. So give me an idea of something. It can be anything. Jenn What I ate in a day eating only sandwiches. Travis Okay, wait. I only eat sandwiches. And then what's like the thing? I only eat sandwiches and what? Jenn And what I learned from that something like that or well i was just going more in like a typical what i eat in a day only sandwiches okay i'm expecting breakfast sandwich lunch sandwich Travis Dinner sandwich jen i'm attacked i really only eat sandwich i'm not even that's me that's like gonna be good for you it's gonna give you some new recipes all right so what i'm putting in Here is i want a 10 minute script about i only eat sandwiches every day the tone which, which is like you can say you want it to be casual, formal, informative story. Jenn Maybe put recipes into the title. Travis Oh, OK. What do we say? Only eat sandwiches every day. These are my favorite recipes. I don't know. Yeah. These are my favorite recipe. I have no idea where this is what's going to happen. Jenn I don't know where this is going either. But I'm very curious because if we both get like a sandwich recipe out of this, I'm pumped. Travis Oh, reoccupies. Why did it? Jenn Why is it? My favorite reoccupies. Recipes. Travis There we go. Alright, the tone. I think we should use like storytelling. I think that'd be fun. Oh, okay. Jenn I like this. Travis So it's going to be a 10 minute thing. Now, video about sandwiches. Jenn Let's go. Travis So right now, I'm starting to think about this. Okay, now it's asking me, do you want your video to focus on quick everyday sandwiches or gourmet unique recipes or a mix of both? Jenn Oh, both. Travis Oh, we want to mix them both. Mix of both. All right. Jenn Me just coming onto our script generator to meal plan? Travis I love sandwiches, by the way. I eat sandwiches. I had a sandwich for breakfast already. All right. So now what it's doing is checking a bunch of stuff. Now, one of the things I will say is what I like about this is this AI now will look at things that are recent. So if you're doing something that's in the news, it actually will look at things and watch YouTube videos about it and then give you feedback about it. Now, you can take the script and then just read the script, or you can take it as bullet points and use that for your own video and just kind of go, okay, I want to talk about this, this, this, And this. It's already researched for you, which is what's that to me. That's the biggest part. Now, look, here's the three different ones we can choose from. I only eat sandwiches every day. These are my favorite recipes. My sandwich addiction from pbj to gourmet feasts oh my god or you won't believe these sandwiches i eat daily which one of those do we want it to to go more into i'm kind of going from the transformation From pb and j to gourmet sandwiches you want to do that one yeah let's go with that one we're going to click that one hit continue and now it's going to do it's going do more magic behind the Scenes if you're watching youtube video you're seeing what it's doing it's saying it's building a solid foundation it's gonna find all these things and i asked it to make a 10 minute Script so i'll be able to do like a 10 minute youtube video on this now of course you've got to do your own b-roll and all that other stuff yeah i mean this is a tool like we have tools we are Jenn Not here providing like fully ai content like these are to help you right right you know this is like we came up with the idea we're laughing we're playing with the different ideas we're Travis Making decisions and now we're using the tools to our advantage yes and it's saving time the thing that i like about this most is it saves me time. So when I would do, uh, uh, pieces that I'm trying to get across a point or something like that about a subject, I would have to do a bunch of research and I have to take the notes. I have to do all these things. This thing is doing it in less than five minutes. It's doing all the research, going on the internet. It's looking through YouTube videos, looking through articles. It's taking all that information, boiling it down and then giving you a script but you again you could literally go back through it and then bullet point and go you know make this a bullet Point let me just let me give it my own words but at least the research is done and i can point out different things and that's what i love about this so it's still it's hammering out the first Draft is what it says right now ([Time 0:08:09](https://share.snipd.com/snip/1cba5375-4950-4c89-b836-3c3cf9243a7f)) - **Selective Comment Engagement** - Don't feel pressured to reply to every comment; focus on those that stand out or are funny. - Use the new voice response features to engage quickly and creatively with your audience. Transcript: Travis Some of my videos have hundreds of comments whilst I like to reply to everyone. Sometimes I can't. Does this hurt my reach or chances for the video to grow? Also, I've been trying to play with shorts. I'm sorry about it, Jen. And then last question. Jenn I've been playing with shorts too. Travis Well, actually, we'll get a second question after this first one. So answering comments. This is something that we deal with on the main channel, right? A lot of big YouTubers have a thing they do where they just sit there for the first hour. Then after that, it is what it is. How do you tend to handle this sort of situation, Jen? Jenn I handle or answer comments that just really stand out to me. And it's different every time, but I don't try to answer every single one. Sure, in a perfect world, but also, like, some comments are just comments. Like, they don't need a reply. Travis You hit the little heart on it. Jenn Yeah. Oh, yeah. I definitely, like, heart tons of them. But I don't think all comments need a reply. So, like, ones that really stand out to me are ones that are, like, very funny. And I will go in and reply. Which I think is so funny that in the update, the voice response, that's what stood out to me. Travis I think that's fun. I'm excited for that. I was like, what? Well, remember there used to be video responses on YouTube back in the day. Remember that? Jenn I don't remember that, no. Travis As the creator, you used to be able to leave a video response to comments. Jenn I do not remember that. But like the voice comments, I'm like's fun and that is quick and i think it's like a super comment i would reply yeah so for people don't know there um that's something that sounds like Travis It's coming out where you'll be able to leave a voice comment in response to a comment that you get which i think will be a lot of fun um oh no i don't think this creator should put that much Jenn Pressure on answering every comment. I mean, it's not feasible. Travis Right. Jenn And that's just my approach. I know a lot of creators, like you're saying, set aside that time when a video goes live. But I just answer the ones that are funny. And it's always somebody different. Or it's always something that just catches my attention. Travis Speaking ([Time 0:16:58](https://share.snipd.com/snip/830ad3d8-d01c-492c-9750-d15dc1d69965)) - **Caution Licensing Content for AI** - Companies offer payment to license creators' content for AI training, but creators must be cautious of rights they sign away. - YouTube already uses videos for AI training without paying creators, so receiving payment is fair but watch contract details. Transcript: Travis To the second part of this question Last question. I have been contacted by a company named RHEI. They claim that they pay YouTubers to be available for AI. In other words, they would license out my stuff so that AI can learn from it. They claim I keep the licensing and revenue per normal from AdSense, and I can continue other partnerships. Have you heard of this company or anything like this? This is legit now here's the funny thing youtube already does this for free they're already using videos to train their ai so you're you might as well get paid i guess that's so sketchy To me i don't know yeah it does sound sketchy but by the same token so the question is do you have to give up anything or are they just going to pay you for the rights like in other words do they Need access to your account if they like say we need your login and stuff nah don't do it nope zero if all they're saying is hey can we just use your stuff i mean i would it's already being Jenn Done without you being paid for it so for me pay me don't sign i don't know i would say it gets sketchy though because if you're licensing something out like they have the rights to your Travis Content now to do well so i would look at the contract yeah ([Time 0:20:02](https://share.snipd.com/snip/87663556-7f29-48c8-853c-5c126a590d5f)) - **Be Careful with Movie Footage** - When using movie trailer footage, understand fair use and avoid taking spoilers or core scenes. - Expect copyrights even with permissions; licensing requires careful handling and often proof of permission. Transcript: Travis Hi, Travis and Jen. I have a small channel dedicated to reviewing the newest movie releases in theaters. One question that always keeps me up at night. Where do other YouTubers get movie trailer footage from? Other YouTubers use this kind of footage as B-roll, and I'd like to do the same. However, it is my understanding that downloading directly from YouTube is illegal, yet I suspect even the biggest of YouTubers dedicated to talk about movies do this suspicious activity. I've been lucky enough that I've caught the attention of a big movie studio, and they're so kind in sending me materials so that I can use as B-roll. Yet the question remains, how can I get this footage to use as B-roll in a legal way? Thanks for your support. First of all, congratulations on getting a studio. That's amazing. I never hear of this. That's amazing. They're always copyright striking people. I've never heard anyone say, yeah, no, they were like, here, use it for B-roll. Amazing congrats um fair use so we we've talked about fair use before i think we have an entire episode or something on it or a video on it make sure you check that out on the youtube channel Because it's actually i think it's on the main channel because that's the episode where we we had um ian corzine who's an actual lawyer talk about fair use. So you're probably right. They're probably getting it from other YouTube videos and stuff. I mean, some of them might be getting it from like, like you are, but that's where they're mostly getting it from. But fair use is a thing. And that means you can't just take stuff. And I think the thing that always stuck out to me about that conversation with Ian is don't take the heart, which is interesting. So if it's a spoiler of a movie, there's a possibility that the rights holder might not take that in a good way and might take it down. More so than if you just took parts that are in the trailer anyway. Like, spoiler alert. Jenn Yeah. It's tough just because creators are what you think you know getting away with using it doesn't mean they're not getting copyrights left and right how many times you just can't see that Travis How many times jenna's a creator said to you well but this creator's doing and they're monetized yeah like you don't know the behind the scenes just because it's allowed to it's like Jenn Not blocked from youtube doesn't mean that they're seeing a scent from that doesn't mean that it's not like trying to be taken down i had a creator that also had studio connections and They would be able to use footage and they would still get copyrights from it. And they would have to like prove that, no, I was allowed to use this. And it would come down to like the date too. Like if they used it a day too early than they were allowed to, like boom, done. Travis Interesting. Jenn It was a nonstop copyright war. Yeah. Travis And when you're dealing with copyrighted content, even if you are using it in a fair way, that is just the nature of the game. And God help you if it's Disney. Oh, Lord. ([Time 0:29:38](https://share.snipd.com/snip/7d882fed-ef8c-4656-a769-1379aa2c9fc2)) - **Binge-Watching Tenant Drama** - Travis and Jenn both binge-watched the British TV show "Nightmare Tenants Slum Landlords." - The series showcases landlords struggling with non-paying, destructive tenants, sparking strong emotional reactions. Transcript: Travis Go through the best ones. Should we throw back an old little segment? What do you mean? Jenn What have you watched on YouTube this last week? Oh, yes. Travis Well, let's do that. I'll tell you what mine are, but it's more of a series more than just a video. Jenn Okay, wait. My answer is the same. Travis What is it? Jenn Are you watching well so i've been look here's the thing if it's the same it's not there's no way i'm signing off so fast it's impossible to be said there's literally zero okay go ahead Travis Tell me what it is it is a british tv show now um this happens from time to time. YouTube will recommend something that I'm mildly interested in. And then, you know, you get the rabbit hole for weeks, right? You're just watching all the things. Jenn Yeah. Travis So this one, this show is called Nightmare Tenants Slum Landlords. And I've been watching the episode last week. What? Jenn This is what I've been watching. Travis Jen, stop it. Stop it. See, she's trying to. I'm like, come on, Jen. Come on. She's over here. For half a second, she caught me. I'm like, wait. No, no, no, no, no. I would know that if you were telling the truth, if you literally shut down. Because you'd be like... Oh, darn. I know what your real reaction would be. That's why you didn't trick me all right so what are you watching okay wait but elaborate on your your what was it landlords yeah so it's um nightmare tenant slum landlords uh the vast Majority of the episodes are landlords trying to kick people out of their house for um for non-payment and for, um, uh, squatting. And it's terrible. I feel like I feel so strongly about this. Like how can you own a property that you rent to someone? They don't pay you and it costs you thousands of dollars and months to get them out. It's still you're stealing from them. You're literally, how can, how can you steal my car and I can get you arrested, but you can steal my house and I can't do nothing but kick you out and it costs me money how is that a thing that's Absolutely insane so it's wild to see these what they have to go through yeah and then the interactions also like how much does it really like you have to have so much strength as a person Jenn To be like i'm not leaving bro some of these people are so self-righteous. Travis It's wild. Like, you haven't paid rent in 16 months. What do you mean you don't want to leave? And they're just like straight up like, so? Yeah. They're like, well, just give me as soon as I'm the bailiff's come. Sure. Then I'll leave. Like, brother, are you serious? And then they go in the house and it's trashed every time. Just trashed. Just destroyed every time. Oh my gosh i'm actually gonna need links i definitely i'm literally in the middle of watching an episode right before we started here i'll even share my screen look my god i'm gonna show You right now let's see share share screen again you gotta be watching on youtube to see what it's going on here so this episode uh yeah so i was watching this and then there's like the property Inspectors and you can see that is so funny and this lady poor lady was trying to get these people kicked out and she they won't leave they haven't paid for like look at that with all the Crap the guy just left everything outside it's just it's terrible man people are nuts it's a great show to watch so it's kind of a second that makes the best TV what are you watching I've Jenn Been watching ryan trahan's series his 50 states in 50 days raising a million dollars for saint jude's oh that's so cool it is such a crazy good series i have loved all of ryan trahan's Series and his normal content i kind of fall off for it's a little bit young for me most of the time um or at least it kind of turned very young and then back into this series is like i felt like We just got the ryan trahan we've like always loved and he has his wife with him which i watch her channel regularly and it's so it is literally so crazy the amount of money and the people Donating. It is just mind-blowing. Travis That's so cool. Jenn Yeah. So it's out every single day. So I've been watching it. Wow. Daily. And yeah, it's so crazy. I think from a YouTube perspective, like it is nuts to think of the planning that actually went into this series. And I feel like the behind the scenes that we know would exist but a viewer would not know exists yeah and it's like really fun to like pick apart and be skeptic at like what actually was Planned and stuff but it is just so good highly recommend it amazing well um let us ([Time 0:38:47](https://share.snipd.com/snip/025db224-94b4-4f7b-8eaa-18958fd470eb))