Peggy K's Creator News

This week was pretty quiet, but even so there are updates for presenters, webmasters, AdSense publishers, YouTubers, live streamers and more: My favorite update was the shiny new features for Google Slides. There are now add-ons, synced slides and drag and drop integration between Google Keep (Google Blog) For YouTube Creators, there’s been a change to the eligibility requirements for adding external link Cards - you now need to have monetization enabled to share any external links, including to Merch and Crowdfunding sites. অ্যাডসেন্স এখন বাংলা (বাংলা) বুঝতে পারে - AdSense now supports Bengali (Bangla) Google celebrated their 19th birthday , sharing fun Google Doodle games from years gone by. Outside the Googleverse, Twitter is testing out letting users have 280 characters to Tween. They explained why , but many Twitterers aren’t happy with the change. Image : Detail from Atardecer en el mar [La ola roja] by Joaquín Clausell (~1910) (Public Domain)

This week there are updates and tips for YouTubers, live streamers, Google Plussers, webmasters, advertisers, photographers and much more! YouTube announced a new way for Creators to make money: Sponsorships. Fans can sponsor your channel for a small amount each month, and in return they get access to private chats, custom live chat badge and emoji and more. The catch? Sponsorships are currently only available to g aming channels . If you don’t have a gaming channel, you can submit an interest form  . While YouTube said hello to Sponsorships, it bid goodbye to Paid channels and videos. Current paid channels will only be available through the end of November. Also this week, the YouTube Video Editor and Photo Slideshows was retired. While there are decent free video editing apps for Windows, Mac and most mobile devices, creators with Chromebooks unfortunately have few alternative options.  The YouTube Creator Studio app is now officially YT Studio, and has some nice new feature

This week there are updates for Google Plussers, video watchers, advertisers, webmasters, smartphone buyers and much more. If you have a phone running Android 8 (Oreo), Google+ 9.20 has new notification options. The catch: unless you are familiar with Oreo’s new notification options, they are a bit hard to find. The Google+ iOS app also got an update with bug fixes. Google News added Community Updates so you can easily find out what's happening locally YouTube TV is available in 8 more US metro areas YouTube is making HDR playback available on select Android devices ProPublica discovered that Facebook enabled advertisers to target anti-Semitic ad categories . These were algorithmically created based on self-reported profile information. Facebook is implementing changes to help prevent this from happening in the future . The Google AdWords keywords planner also allowed anti-Semitic ad targeting - but according to Google such queries would be filtered so no ads would appear

This week in the Googleverse there are updates video makers, live streamers, business owners, webmasters, travelers and much more. Here are my top updates: YouTube Live got a sweet update, with real-time ultra-low latency streaming and new chat moderation tools. You can also now stream games or apps on your iOS device using the YouTube app. If you want to give ultra-low latency streaming a try, check out BarbaraEMac’s encoder setting tips . If you are a YouTube Partner, and you have a video that is “not suitable for all advertisers”, check out the latest update on the YouTube monetization appeals process for videos with yellow $ icon. Your channel needs at least 10,000 subscribers, or your video has to have had at least 1000 views in the past week to appeal.  Uptime is an iOS app from Area120 at Google that lets you watch YouTube videos with friends. It’s latest feature is “Parties” - invite your friends and the YouTube videos will be synced for all of you, even when you jump

New this week in the Googlevers  there are tips and updates for video watchers and creators, live streamers, business owners, webmasters, bloggers and much more.  This week YouTube unveiled a redesigned and very bright logo, plus a new look and new features on mobile and desktop. YouTube Creators have been understandably concerned when their monetized videos started showing the yellow “"not suitable for all advertisers" icon . In response, Ryan “Fwiz” Wyatt (Head of Global Gaming, Content & Partnerships at YouTube) posted a FAQ to explain “what’s up”. The take-away message is there is now an option to appeal: “... no system is perfect. When you appeal, our reviewers take a look and their decisions help our systems get smarter over time. Deleting the video and re-uploading won't help.”  Another change for YouTube Creators is the new requirement that monetization be enabled before you can link to your own website on a video Card or End Screen. There is an excepti