YouTube is working on a new series of "Creator Preview" videos, designed to showcase some of the service's tweaks and enhancements before they actually go live. These videos, the biggest request that came out of YouTube's twice-yearly global satisfaction survey, are designed to open up a bit of a conversation between YouTube, its partners, and its content creators — giving the service a chance to obtain valuable feedback on various elements its working in before they hit center stage.

The first video within this new series hit the Web on Friday. In it, YouTube teased out that it's working on a brand-new mobile app that will allow content creators to better manage their videos via their smartphones and tablets (presumably).

"We saw creators struggling a lot with not being able to do basic YouTube management stuff on their phone. We saw this as a really great opportunity for us to build something that you guys can use on the go, and manage your channel anywhere you are," said YouTube's Molly Nix, in said video.

YouTube is also working on ways by which they can more closely tie user contributions, donations, and other funding mechanisms into YouTube itself, rather than forcing users to visit third-party sites in order to contribute to content creators they especially enjoy. While the video wasn't super-specific on how YouTube might go about doing that, it's definitely something that's on the company's mind — here's hoping it's a small UI tweak to enable Twitch-like, instant-donation functionality.

Additionally, the company has also debuted a method by which creators of cover songs can also earn revenues for their works — assuming that the original copyright holders of the covered song permit the feature.

Finally, YouTube is planning to bolster its captions capabilities by allowing content creators to crowd-source the captioning process. Users watching creators' videos would be able to submit captions for that which they've seen (or, presumably, correct captions that aren't quite the right translation or accurate record of what was said in a particular video), and they'd be able to do so in more than 60 different languages that YouTube officially supports.

"Now, we want to know what you think of what we're working on. Share your thoughts with us on Google+ or Twitter—we'll be reading, responding and using your feedback to help make these upcoming launches even better," reads YouTube's post.