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Creator Weekly: YouTube Clips, Google Web Core Vitals & Search, BlueSky Moderation

Cheers to all celebrating St. Patrick’s Day this weekend. Wearing of the green will get you into the mood for Spring, which comes around on Tuesday. This week there are updates to Google Search for web publishers, businesses and visitors; YouTube updates for finding your Clips and watching on TV; updates for Instagram, Pinterest, X, Bluesky and other social media and, of course, AI. And more! Top news and updates this week Google’s Core Web Vitals now includes Interaction to Next Paint (yes, I try to explain what that means) Chrome can now better detect malicious sites. You can find your video Clips and Clips made from your videos in your YouTube Library. YouTube has a new design for your biggest screen - your TV. TikTok has a new Creator Search Insights tool to find topics with “search value”. Google Search's “Perspectives” filter is becoming the “Forums” filter. Google Business Profiles may show social media posts. The head of Instagram explains why

Creator Weekly: Google Search Spam, Twitch Roadmap, TikTok Creator Resources

What's new this week? Google’s updated spam policy and core update aims to reduce spammy Search results, Twitch shared their 2024 roadmap, TikTok updates resources for creators, X gets Articles and more. Plus I’ve collected a bunch of interesting writing and interviews about social media, blogging, newsletters and websites. It’s enough reading to keep you out of trouble, for a few days anyway.  Top news and updates this week Celebrate International Women’s Day Google’s updated spam policy and algorithm update aim to reduce spammy content in the Search results. Twitch announced their roadmap for the upcoming year. TikTok announced new creator resources and an updated monetization program. Learn about optimizing your YouTube thumbnails. The AdSense Policy Center now shows CMP Adoption Notifications. AdSense for Search has a new site approval process. X launched blog-like Articles (a subscriber-only feature) Threads let you save post drafts and take photos from the app. There is a

Creator Weekly: WordPress & Tumblr Privacy, YouTube Create, Facebook News

  March is coming in like a lion, with strong wintery weather here in California. I’m looking forward to Spring! This week there are updates for YouTubers, bloggers, social media and a lot more. Top news and updates this week The YouTube Create video editing app for Android is available in 14 more countries. Try it! Opt out your WordPress.com or Tumblr blog from AI training. Get the inside scoop on how the YouTube algorithm works. UMG pulls more music from TikTok. Substack is adding DMs AdSense for Search reports will no longer break out subdomains X will boost pinned posts Instagram added more safety tools Facebook expanded its Performance Bonus program, but is killing the News tab You can bookmark Threads posts and managing posting from services with access to the new API (like Hootsuite and Sprout Social) Bluesky added hashtags and word muting. Google is having small news organizations test AI content creation Add handwritten annotations to Google Docs on Android Mosaic is the

Creator Weekly: Google Gemini AI Subscriptions, YouTube on TV, Reddit's Deal with Google

This week was all about AI. You can access Google’s Gemini in different Google products and services (if you pay and don’t mind that it’s still learning), Google is paying Reddit for data access for AI training, get Chrome’s AI writing tools, use the AI image editor in Windows Photos, AI AI AI! There are also important updates for YouTube creators, website owners, and social media folks so don’t miss those! Top news and updates this week Make sure your YouTube channel has a TV-ready cover image. YouTube Partners can see their top earning content by format. Google now offers Gemini AI subscriptions for Google Workspace and personal accounts. Reddit has a data deal with Google that includes AI training and announced their IPO. You can now make Remixed “Collabs” in the YouTube Shorts editor on Android. Glen Gabe shares how to find the experimental Notes left on sites in Google Search. Windows Photos has a new AI-generative erase tool. Bluesky is federating. Instagram creator marketplace

Creator Weekly: YouTube Post-Only Feed and Music Video Remix, Sora Text-to-Video, Speaker Spotlight in Slides

This week’s updates include new features for YouTubers, OpenAI’s new text-to-video AI, a better way to create presentation videos in Google Slides and more. Top news and updates this week New YouTube posts-only feed. Speaker Spotlight in Google Slides for more engaging presentations OpenAI’s Sora, an impressive text-to-video AI model Upload YouTube videos and shorts in the YouTube Studio app Remix music videos into YouTube Shorts Co-stream the Twitch Streamer Awards TikTok Creative Assistant in Adobe Express Changes to Google Search in the EEA Android app photo picker can access images in the cloud X’s poor ad performance (maybe bots?) A look back at Twitter’s last days Pinterest color trends Filter your Instagram DMs to only see people you follow A look at robots.txt and how it’s not keeping up with technology Read on for details and additional updates! Creator Weekly In Your Inbox 📨 Subscribe to get the Creator Weekly by email. Creator Weekly Live 🔴 What do you think about th