YouTube’s seeking to assist extra creators safe branded content material offers through a brand new ‘MediaKit’ addition inside YouTube Studio, which is able to assist them higher formulate their channel’s pitch for potential advert companions within the app.

As you may see on this screenshot, the brand new MediaKit show, which is able to quickly be made obtainable through the BrandConnect tab in YouTube Studio (for individuals who’ve signed up), will present a shareable abstract of your channel viewers and viewer stats, together with subscribers, distinctive viewers, common watch time per clip and extra. Channel managers may also be capable of replace their channel bio on this show, which won’t impression their public bio within the app.

The itemizing may also embrace extra in-depth viewers knowledge, together with demographics and viewers pursuits.

Channel managers may also be capable of choose 4 featured movies to showcase within the show, whereas the itemizing may also spotlight earlier paid partnerships for extra reference.

This data will then be searchable by BrandConnect accomplice manufacturers, for potential branded content material offers, whereas channel managers may also be capable of obtain the itemizing to PDF, which they will then additionally ahead onto potential companions.

It’s a great addition, which is able to assist YouTubers higher showcase the potential worth of their channels for model promotions, which may assist them safe extra offers, whereas it’s going to additionally give manufacturers extra alternative as to their advert placements within the app, based mostly on attain and purchasing insights.

Which is a large worth add for YouTube, particularly when you think about the rise of individuals viewing YouTube content material on their house TV units. Greater than 120 million individuals now watch YouTube content material on their house TV units each month, which has seen a surge in curiosity in the course of the pandemic, and with that, YouTube can now successfully supply conventional TV advert resonance, with much more superior concentrating on and focus.

Which means decrease value, which suggests extra companies can now viably take into account an alternate type of TV promoting to advertise their services. And with extra creators itemizing extra of this data, that additional improves YouTube’s providing, whereas additionally, once more, giving creators extra alternative to make more cash from their YouTube clips.

YouTube says that the brand new MediaKit choice can be rolling out to creators within the US, UK and Canada ‘over the following few months’.