Week in review - March 7, 2015: Creator Academy Boot camp, Manage your G+ Circles, Hangouts update

Updates, tips and articles posted over the past week.

YouTube

• YouTube Creator Academy Engage your Audience Boot Camp starts March 16th
• Review the YouTube Community Guidelines  
• Find your YouTube channel's custom URL 

Google+

• Cricket fans - show your team loyalty with Google+ Cricket Face Paint
• How to change your name on Google+ (Google+ TCs)
• Concerned about Unknown People Circling You on Google+? Manage your Privacy (John Skeats)
• Control Which Google+ Contacts Appear in Contacts Preview All contacts Category (John Skeats)
• Choose how many posts you see from each Google+ Circle in your home stream (GPlus Expertise)

Hangouts

• Hangouts App for Android update: improved stability, performance and under-the-hood improvements
• Tell the Google Hangouts team what you think - send feedback inside the Chrome Hangouts app (WC Blitzy)

AdSense and AdMob

• At GDC AdMob announced new features for monetizing your apps

Around the Web

• Now you can embed Twitter-hosted video on your website
• Try Buffer's new "Pablo" tool for creating social media images and memes (used to create the image at the top)
• PSA: never do anything in front of a webcam you wouldn't want your friends and family to see (Andrew Bossom)

Updated March 2019 to remove Google+ links