Peggy K's Creator News

Hello dear readers! I hope you are having a great weekend. It’s hot hot here in the San Francisco Bay Area. It’s hit 100 degrees 3 days this week, and this weekend is supposed to be just as hot. I’m really ready for fall! This week’s big news is that YouTube Shorts can be up to 3 minutes long. And there are more Shorts updates coming, along with updates for Google Search AI Overviews, Facebook Monetization, Threads Posting and more. 🎧 Listen to this week’s newsletter                         📨 Subscribe to get the Creator Weekly by email. Top news and updates this week YouTube Shorts can soon be up to 3 minutes long. More YouTube Shorts features coming: templates, remix music video clips, trends tab, comments proview, and for the haters, “Show fewer Shorts” setting The dispute between Automattic, WordPress and Matt Mullenweg with WP Engine continues to heat up, with a lawsuit filed and employees leaving. YouTube’s AI-powered comment topics are available in all supported languages.

The maximum length of a YouTube Short is expanding from 1 minute to 3 minutes! Vertical or square videos up to 3 minutes long will be shown in the Shorts feed. The longer Shorts (should we call them Bermudas?) cannot contain copyrighted music or visuals (like TV or movie clips) or have a copyright claim. YouTube does offer free music you can use in the Audio Library in YouTube Studio. Note that the Shorts editor in the YouTube mobile app is still limited to 1 minute videos, but will be updated in the future. You can use your favorite editor like CapCut (which is what I used). This change goes into effect on October 15. It will not affect videos uploaded before October 15. Monetization of Longer Shorts If your channel is in the YouTube Partner Program, the longer Shorts will be eligible for Shorts ad revenue sharing . If your channel is not yet monetized, the Shorts views will count towards eligibility. For the expanded YouTube Partner Program for Fan Funding (Memberships, Merch

Google is shutting down Jamboard,  its collaborative digital whiteboarding service and hardware, on December 31, 2024. Jamboard will be view-only starting October 1.  Why is this happening? Google says that its customers are using third party whiteboarding platforms, which have gotten great new features. Google will focus on "core content collaboration across Docs, Sheets, and Slides." Jamboard will start "winding down" on October 1. At that time:  The Jamboard app (jamboard.google.com) will become view-only, so you cannot create new Jams or modify existing Jams Google will start converting Jams to PDF files.  If you have Jams you want to keep or continue working on, you can export the Jams or migrate your Jams to a different platform. Google has integrated Miro, FigJam and LucidSpark add-ons with Meet, so you can continue to collaboratively whiteboard in meetings.  If you have a 55 inch Jamboard device, they w

Last week YouTube and Twitch shared the new features they are working on. This week it was Meta’s turn. And yes, it’s new AI-powered features for Facebook and Instagram. There are also updates for Google Photos, TikTok, AdSense, social media and more. 🎧 Listen to this week’s newsletter                        📨 Subscribe to get the Creator Weekly by email Top news and updates this week Use NotebookLM to summarize and create overviews of YouTube videos. Jamboard turns view-only on October 1. Add a cover image to your Google Doc. The dispute between WordPress and WP Engine gets ugly. Meta announces new AI features including video chats with AI versions of creators, automatic translation and dubbing of Reels, and photo editing. TikTok expands paid Subscriptions to more creators. Google Photos updated their video editor. Twitch shared more details about how Shared Chat with Stream Together works. The new AdSense Ads Not Showing Troubleshooter can help you figure out why ads aren’t s

Autumn is my favorite season. We usually have sunny weather with just a bit of crisp coolness, the leaves start changing color, and the year starts to wind down. 🍂 It’s a nice time to work on projects before the hustle of the Christmas and New Year holidays. Either that, or take a nice hike! This week both YouTube and Twitch shared their roadmap for the coming months, with new features for creating, monetizing and building community. Plus there are updates from Substack, Discord, Threads, Google Workspace and more. 🎧 Listen to this week’s newsletter on Beehiiv .     📨  Subscribe  to get the Creator Weekly by email. Top news and updates this week Google Gemini can now interact with Keep and Tasks. New features coming to YouTube: Communities, Hype Leaderboards, Gifts powered by Jewels, Seasons & Episodes, automatic dubbing, updated Inspiration Tab, AI effects and more YouTube Partners that submitted a W8 US tax form in 2021 will have to resubmit the form

At today's Made on YouTube event, YouTube announced a whole slew of new creator features.  Here's what is coming:  Communities , a space on your channel where fans can post and chat Community Hub in the YouTube Studio app to engage with fans Hype Leaderboards  to let fans help promote your videos Gifts powered by Jewels , gifts sent by fans during vertical livestreams YouTube Shopping  in more countries Organize your content into seasons  and episodes AI-powered automatic dubbing into multiple languages Updated Inspiration tab with AI-generated video outlines, thumbnails and titles Effects Maker  tool for creating YouTube Shorts effects GenAI Puppeteering to turn you into your "alter ego" AI-generated video clips and backgrounds with  Veo  in the  YouTube Shorts  editor Some of these will start rolling out over the next few months, but some are still being tested, and will not