Peggy Ks Tips and Tricks

If you are an AdSense publisher, you should see a notification in your account about the California Consumer Privacy Act. Google offers two options to help you comply with these new regulations: enable restricted data processing for California users or use publisher ad tags to restrict data processing when a visitor to your site clicks a "Do Not Sell My Personal Information" link.

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) goes into effect on January 1, 2020. The regulations are meant to provide privacy protections, with the aim of ensuring Californians own, control, and secure their personal information.

Which businesses does CCPA apply to?
Under the California Consumer Privacy Act only businesses that earn $50,000,000 a year in revenue, sell 100,000 consumer’s records each year or derive 50% of their annual revenue by selling your personal information must comply. All businesses must comply if they collect or sell Californian’s personal information, whether they are locate…

Canva has added the option to create designs with a video clip, using either stock video or uploading your own. This is an easy way to create clips for social media, a promo video or title to incorporate into your YouTube video.

I have long used the Canva graphic design site to make my YouTube thumbnails and blog graphics. While you can pay for advanced Pro features, I am using the free service, which is sufficient for my needs, and it works great on my Chromebook.

The free tier includes up to 1GB storage for photos and other assets, including video clips. As Canva owns stock image sites Pixabay and Pexels, those free images and videos are available within Canva to create your design, with no upload required.

And once your design is complete, you can download it to your computer for use anywhere you like.

Note that Canva isn't a full-fledged video editing tool. You can't assemble multiple clips or add an audio track. What it does let you do is create a design that incorporate…

This past week I was in Boulder, Colorado at the 2019 Google Product Expert Meetup. It was great to see my fellow PEs from the US and Canada, and learn about and provide feedback on Google products. Now that I’m home again, I'm only just getting caught up, so hopefully I didn't miss any big news. I can tell you that this week there were major updates for YouTube creators, Android users, business owners, webmasters and much more.
This week YouTube announced that creators need to indicate whether their videos or channel is “made for kids” (YouTube will also automatically review content to help ensure compliance). This is the outcome of a settlement with the US FTC to ensure YouTube complies with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA). That requires getting permission from parents before any personal data is collected from young children. When changes are rolled out in January, channels “made for kids” will be missing many of YouTube’s features, including the …

Starting today, all YouTube creators need to indicate whether their content is "made for kids" in order to comply with the US FTC's Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA). This is the case whether you  make content aimed at kids or not, and whether you are in the US or not.
In September, YouTube announced they would treat all "children's content" as if children were watching in order to comply with COPPA.  COPPA limits the personal information that can be collected from children online without parental consent.

To comply, Creators must declare whether their Audience is kids or not. You can set the audience at the channel level or on individual videos.

YouTube also uses machine learning to identify content that appears to be aimed at a young audience. If you believe YouTube has gotten that automated automated designation wrong, you can send feedback (see below for details).

Content made for kids will have fewer features, some of which will af…

Pour yourself a big cup of coffee, because there are a ton of updates this week. From YouTube there is a redesigned home page and new ways to make money. Adobe announced a slew of new features, apps and tools. Plus there are updates for webmasters, businesses and much more.
Coming up this week is the Chrome Developer Summit, where you can learn the “latest techniques for building for the modern Web”. You can watch live on the Chrome Developers YouTube channel.YouTube has rolled out a new home page design on desktop and tablets. The most noticeable change is that the thumbnails are larger. That allows display of the channel icon and full title, plus higher resolution video previews. There are fewer special content shelves, but you may see sections for breaking news, community posts, music mixes and more. You can help fine-tune what you see by clicking the 3 dot menu icon by any video and selecting “don’t recommend channel.” And “soon” you will be able to customize your home feed by se…

The new YouTube Partner Program setup page in YouTube Studio has new features and an updated application process to make it easier to see when your channel is eligible for monetization.

Now only public watch time is shown, you can opt-in to get an email notification when your channel reaches the eligibility requirements, and you don't link an AdSense account to your channel until after it reaches the minimum 1000 subscribers and 4000 hours public watch time.

Read on for details.
How to check your channel's YouTube Partner Program status 1. Sign in to YouTube, and switch to your channel if need be
2. Open YouTube Studio (studio.youtube.com)
3. Click the $ Monetization icon on the left menu (https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UC/monetization)

If your channel is eligible for monetization, you will see the Grow with YouTube page. That shows your channel's subscriber count and public watch hours.
If your channel is not eligible for monetization, you will see a notice.
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