Big changes to your YouTube view counts (starting Aug 24)

August 24th, 2026 Welcome to this week's YouTube Creator News! G'day Reader, We have a massive week of platform updates with direct implications for how your channel is measured, monetized, and presented on the big screen. Starting today (August 24, 2026), YouTube is rolling out one of its biggest metric shifts in years by standardizing public view counts across long-form video, live streams, podcasts, and Shorts. On top of that, YouTube Studio is overhauling how copyright and AI likeness...