As teased at I/O 2025 in May, NotebookLM is adding Video Overviews to complement the popular audio podcasts.
NotebookLM users now have another way — joining Study Guides, Briefing Docs, FAQs, Timelines, and Mind Maps — to output their sources. The first video format creates narrated slides and visuals to “to help illustrate points while also pulling in images, diagrams, quotes and numbers from your documents.”
This makes it uniquely effective for explaining data, demonstrating processes and making abstract concepts more tangible.
You can have NotebookLM specify what “topics to focus on, indicate your learning goals, describe the target audience and much more.”
You can ask generic questions like, “I know nothing about this topic; help me understand the diagrams in the paper” or get into specifics and ask, “I’m already an expert on X and my team works on Y; focus on Z.”
These Video Overviews are rolling out now to all NotebookLM users in English. More languages, as well as additional video formats/styles, will be supported in the future.
You can generate a Video Overview from the Studio column (at the right), which is getting a redesign in the coming weeks.
There’s now a colorful grid for Audio Overview, Video Overview, Mind Map, and Reports. The other big update is how you can now “create and store multiple studio outputs of the same type in a single notebook.” For example:
- Have a public notebook to share with the world? Create a set of Audio Overviews in different languages to make your content globally accessible.
- Managing a team notebook full of notes and documentation? Create Audio and Video Overviews tailored to different roles, significantly saving time and effort.
- Studying for a big exam? You can also create any outputs, like Mind Maps, or Video Overviews, each focusing on a different chapter of your course notes.
Everything you generate appears in a feed below that. The new Studio panel also lets you multitask by listening to an Audio Overview as you view a Mind Map or Study Guide.
This follows Google rolling out a small redesign of the NotebookLM homepage that adds a new “Featured notebooks” capability.
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