March 16th – 2026 release notes: YouTube sources and custom template updates

This week’s release is a smaller feature update following the recent custom template release. It introduces self-service YouTube crawling, new options for automatic channel ingestion, further improvements to custom templates, and a few upcoming features already in progress.

▶️ YouTube videos can now be added as sources directly in Magnity

You can now add YouTube videos as sources in Magnity yourselves.

Up until now, if you wanted to use a YouTube video as a source, you had to send it to us and we would add it through the back end. That is no longer necessary. You can now do this directly inside the interface.

If you click the little + icon next to Filters, where you usually upload new sources, you will now find a fifth tab called Crawl YouTube.

Here, you can:

• Paste in any YouTube video link
• Press Crawl
• Add the video directly to your source library

If the YouTube video already has an existing transcription on the YouTube page, Magnity will crawl the video almost instantly.

If it does not have a transcription, we will generate the transcription as part of the crawl.

This makes it much easier to use video content as a source for planning, analysis, and content creation.

📺 Automatic YouTube channel crawling by market

We can now also set up automatic crawling of YouTube channels per market in the back end.

This means a market can have its own assigned YouTube channel, but it can also inherit channels from another market where relevant.

Example:
If you have both a Global and a UK YouTube channel in English, we can set Magnity up so:

• The Global market crawls the Global channel
• The UK market crawls the UK channel
• The UK market can also inherit the Global channel
• Or vice versa, depending on how you want your source structure to work

This allows multiple relevant channels to update automatically in the same market library.
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If you would like your YouTube channel or channels added to automatic crawling, please reach out to us and we can help you add that in 10 minutes.

🧩 Custom template export upgrade

We have added further functionality to the custom template feature.

When exporting, Magnity can now handle modules where background colours are selected through a drop-down field.

This required a significant rethink of the export functionality, and that work is now completed across all customers.

If you do not currently have configurable background colours in your templates or modules and would like that added, please reach out.

Important note

Because of this export issue, which is now fixed, not all customers are yet live with custom templates.

We are working on getting everyone fully enabled as quickly as possible.

Thank you for your patience while we complete the rollout.

🛠 Known issue

We are currently looking into a known issue where, in rare cases, creating an email can result in two variants of the same email being created at once, making the email appear empty.

When this happens, we need to unpublish one of the variants to return the email to normal.

🔮 Upcoming features

We are currently building a compliance agent that will allow marketers and other relevant employees to upload and review:

• PowerPoint documents
• PDF documents
• Word documents
• Videos
• Web pages
• Emails

This feature is expected to be in beta within the next 1 to 2 weeks. This does not equal to a fully fledged production ready agent, but a funcitonal brand compliance agent, that can be used within a limited use case.

We are also focusing on improving a number of areas over the coming weeks. Not because anything is fundamentally wrong, but because we have several loose ends we want to make better.

Automatic reviewer identification upon sharing
When sharing a project, we plan to add a button that allows you to share directly with the relevant reviewers.

If a user is tagged as a reviewer for a local market, and that market has a version of the content you are building, they will automatically be added to the share list.

Change LLM from within the interface
We are exploring the option to let each user have their own preferred LLM inside the interface.

This would let you switch model only for your own work, instead of changing it for everyone.

For example:

• ChatGPT 5.4 High works very well for translation
• But it can feel unnecessarily slow for standard copywriting tasks

Content review mode with comments
We are looking at adding a review mode where a project can be marked for review and approval.

A reviewer would then be able to:

• Approve the project
• Add comments directly to the project

Project folders
We are looking at adding a folder system for projects, to make it easier to manage larger portfolios of work.

Custom QuickPrompts
We are looking at adding custom QuickPrompts as a feature.

This would allow you to explain to Magnity what you want to achieve, after which it would build the necessary QuickPrompt for you to test and add to your setup.

Additional channels
We are also looking into adding more fixed output channels, such as WhatsApp.

Timing is still uncertain.

Content context
Just like we can add context when building a newsletter flow, we are aiming to do the same for web pages and emails.

This would allow each element in a web page or email to better understand what the other elements are doing, so the final output becomes more coherent and aligned.

Questions or feedback?
Our support team is here to help:
✉️ ulsa@magnity.ai | 📞 +45 29 35 25 78

Thank you for using Magnity.
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The Magnity Development Team