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Week in Review - June 20, 2015: Summer solstice edition

Happy Summer Solstice and Father's Day both! This week there are tips for managing your photos, getting paid through AdSense, Google+ collections, YouTube creators and more!

YouTube and Video Creation

  • Creator Academy Production Skills boot camp is running through June 26
  • Are you a musician who lets YouTubers use your music for free? Are you looking for music for your next video? Check out +Leo Wattenberg's music resources spreadsheet
  • Twitter rolling out autoplay of native videos, Vines and animated GIFs
  • How to transfer your YouTube channel from one Google account to another ( +The Lady from Uncle on YouTube - there is also a short version)

Photos

  • Save storage space by re-uploading your photos to Google Photos at "High Quality"
  • Snapseed update: Even better pro photo editing on your mobile device
  • Google Photos vs Flickr: which is better? ( +Lifehacker )
  • Having trouble finding the right profile photo? Ask your friends to help you find the photo of the best you (Buzzfeed Google Photos promo)

Google+

  • Learn more about creating and managing Collections in the new official Google+ Collections community 
  • Google+ Collections update: add a tagline ( +Jaana Nyström )
  • Give your Google+ Community a unique cover image ( +Google+ Top Contributors )
  • Small Business owners: join the 500000 members of the Google Small Business Community to get help succeeding on the web

Bloggers and Webmasters

AdSense

  • AdSense Publishers:  payment details from the legacy payments system will be going away - download a copy for your records! Deadline: June 30th
  • AdSense Publishers and YouTube Partners, you need to set a payment method in your AdSense account ( +J. Gracey Stinson )
  • Have a website? It's easy to monetize with AdSense ads if you and your site are eligible (new promo ad - AdSense also has a new logo!)

Hangouts and other chat 

  • Skype for Web (beta) now available for Chromebooks
  • Munch, munch, munch: Unicode update includes emoji for popcorn, hot dogs and tacos

Productivity

And more...


Updated March 2019 to remove Google+ links, Updated June 2025 to remove more dead links.

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