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Ask Studio

YouTube’s Ask Studio is a new chat-based assistant inside YouTube Studio designed to turn mountains of data into actionable insights.

Instead manually combing comments and dashboards, you can now prompt Ask Studio for performance breakdowns, sentiment themes, or content ideas based on what your viewers already love.

Think: “Why did this video dip?” or “What topics are trending in my comments this week?”

It’s currently U.S.-only and English-only and still in early testing.

Create for YouTube Shorts

Adobe and YouTube are teaming up for a new integration.

Create for YouTube Shorts is a dedicated space inside Premiere mobile where you can craft, customize, and publish Shorts directly to YouTube.

You get multi-track editing, Firefly-powered AI tools, generative sound effects, and ready-to-use templates built specifically for short-form storytelling.

The Create for YouTube Shorts feature in Premiere mobile will roll out soon.

Gospel Stats

Gospel is a data platform that helps marketers understand who is sponsoring whom (and when, and why) across YouTube.

It’s handy for identifying trending creators before they pop off, pinpointing which brands are investing in influencer marketing, and building custom reports that guide your strategy.

Chirpz AI

Chirpz AI helps you uncover and organize scholarly sources for your next research project.

Its standout feature is its /cite command, which finds, reads, and ranks academic papers relevant to your text, so you don’t have to manually search databases.

It’s like a research notebook where you can store notes, sources, and drafts in one hub. Its Deep Research Agent can chat, synthesize insights from across the web, and even generate well-structured drafts ready for LaTeX, Word, or PDF export.

Yelp’s New AI Tools

Yelp is going all in as an AI-powered engagement hub with 35+ new features.

Yelp Assistant is a a conversational AI that answers user questions using real reviews and photos.

Menu Vision lets diners scan a restaurant menu to instantly see dish images and customer insights, and Yelp Host and Yelp Receptionist use customizable voices to handle calls, reservations, and lead collection automatically.

Now, users can use voice search to ask, “Where’s the best vegan sushi near me?” and Popular Offerings highlights your business’s top-mentioned services and products.

This will hopefully mean fewer missed leads and more real-time engagement.

Xmind

Xmind is a visual project management workspace that lets you plan in big-picture maps and timelines, break tasks down with AI, and track progress in Gantt.

It helps turn messy ideas into actionable steps. You can assign tasks, track dependencies, and adjust timelines in real time without ever leaving the workflow.

There’s no tricky setup and it plays nice with your favorite apps, too.

Xmind

Xmind is a visual project management workspace that lets you plan in big-picture maps and timelines, break tasks down with AI, and track progress in Gantt.

It helps turn messy ideas into actionable steps. You can assign tasks, track dependencies, and adjust timelines in real time without ever leaving the workflow.

There’s no tricky setup and it plays nice with your favorite apps, too.

Clicks.so

Clicks.so is an AI-powered platform that helps you rank higher on the cheap with a beginner-friendly dashboard without the clutter of massive SEO suites like Ahrefs or SEMrush

You get AI site audits and personalized optimization tips, 14 billion keyword insights, rank tracking across all your keywords, a backlink assistant, an AI toolkit, and more.

Twilio Updates

FYI, Twilio has rolled out a new suite of data tools.

Alerting Hub centralizes notifications, instead of using multiple systems. Granular Observability helps you get to the bottom of campaign issues.

Expanded Audience and Destination Configuration APIs streamline audience management, while Profile APIs give direct access to Twilio Segment’s unified Data Graph, simplifying tasks like querying customer entities, updating identifiers, and ensuring PII compliance.

Plus, Auto-Instrumentation lets non-technical marketers tag website or app events without developer support (hallelujah for real).

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