Week in review - February 28, 2015 - YouTube Kids, Blogger Porn, New direction for Google+ Photos and more

Some of updates, tips and articles from the past week:

YouTube

• YouTube Kids app is launched
• YouTube Partners: clarification of the product placement and sponsored content policies (no logos!)
• YouTube Partners: YouTube Analytics will now display estimated earnings in any currency (plus new YTA settings)
• Tracking YouTube Embed Starts, Plays, Pauses, Ends & Errors with Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager (for embedded YouTube videos on your website)
• Shorthand vanity URLs for YouTube channels: now based on new-style custom URLs (posted here)
• Android YouTube app update: precisely trim your videos and check out the new inline video preview
• iOS YouTube app update: see what you are typing :)

Google+

• Forbes interviews Sundar Pichai: Future direction for Google+, Photos and Hangouts
• Business owners: set which image you would like to appear in Google search (new Google+ Local Pages photos dashboard)
• New and improved Google+ experience for mobile web
• Google Calendar app for Android update: control whether Google+ birthdays are shown in settings (and more!)
• John Skeats: Why You Might Be Hitting Limits Adding People to Your Circles - And What to Do About It
• Jaana Nyström: My favourite way to save posts, articles and ideas! I have started a very secret and private community. (create a private Google+ Community to bookmark posts and save ideas)
• Kamal Tailor: See spam, abuse or inappropriate content in your Google+ Home stream or favorite Community? Report it!

Blogger

• Blogger bans porn and graphic nudity  then reverses the policy change.

AdSense

• AdSense Publishers: there's a new AdSense Revenue Profile report

Webmasters

• Make sure your site is mobile-friendly (Google will start expand mobile friendly as a ranking signal on April 21)

Updated March 2019 to remove Google+ links