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• YouTube debuts new features to make its Music hub the “ultimate destination” for podcasts
• YouTube’s new Chief Product Officer introduces herself with “Release Notes” series

  YouTube Creator Liaison Rene Ritchie and Chief Product Officer Johanna Voolich teamed up for a discussion series called 'Release Notes'.

  
• YouTube’s vertical streams mix “the power of Live and the discoverability of the Shorts feed”

  YouTube is integrating live streams into its Shorts feed with a "vertical live" feature that enhances the multiformat approach.

  
• Meet YouTube’s new Creator Liaison

  Rene Ritchie, a full-time tech-focused YouTuber with 328,000 subscribers and more than 50 million views, will step into the position Matt Koval vacated this past February.