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Happy Saturday all! I hope any of you in Florida made it through the latest storms. This week there are multiple updates for YouTubers, Twitch streamers, and bloggers, plus a major update to Google Docs, an Authenticity app from Adobe and an opportunity to beta test Google Meet features. 🎧 Listen to this week’s newsletter                  📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email Top news and updates this week Join the Google Meet Android Beta Program. YouTube Shorts Templates and Trends rolling out. Twitch added Enforcement Notes to the Community Guidelines. More WordPress versus WP Engine (just skip over that section if you are tired of it all). The Internet Archive is under attack. Adobe Content Authenticity web app and Chrome extension to label and view image and video details. X shifts monetization from ad revenue sharing to engagement. Threads is working on its engagement bait problem. Threads is working on it’s broken content review system for supposed policy violations.

Hello dear readers! I hope you are having a great weekend. It’s hot hot here in the San Francisco Bay Area. It’s hit 100 degrees 3 days this week, and this weekend is supposed to be just as hot. I’m really ready for fall! This week’s big news is that YouTube Shorts can be up to 3 minutes long. And there are more Shorts updates coming, along with updates for Google Search AI Overviews, Facebook Monetization, Threads Posting and more. 🎧 Listen to this week’s newsletter                         📨 Subscribe to get the Creator Weekly by email. Top news and updates this week YouTube Shorts can soon be up to 3 minutes long. More YouTube Shorts features coming: templates, remix music video clips, trends tab, comments proview, and for the haters, “Show fewer Shorts” setting The dispute between Automattic, WordPress and Matt Mullenweg with WP Engine continues to heat up, with a lawsuit filed and employees leaving. YouTube’s AI-powered comment topics are available in all supported languages.

The maximum length of a YouTube Short is expanding from 1 minute to 3 minutes! Vertical or square videos up to 3 minutes long will be shown in the Shorts feed. The longer Shorts (should we call them Bermudas?) cannot contain copyrighted music or visuals (like TV or movie clips) or have a copyright claim. YouTube does offer free music you can use in the Audio Library in YouTube Studio. Note that the Shorts editor in the YouTube mobile app is still limited to 1 minute videos, but will be updated in the future. You can use your favorite editor like CapCut (which is what I used). This change goes into effect on October 15. It will not affect videos uploaded before October 15. Monetization of Longer Shorts If your channel is in the YouTube Partner Program, the longer Shorts will be eligible for Shorts ad revenue sharing . If your channel is not yet monetized, the Shorts views will count towards eligibility. For the expanded YouTube Partner Program for Fan Funding (Memberships, Merch

Google is shutting down Jamboard,  its collaborative digital whiteboarding service and hardware, on December 31, 2024. Jamboard will be view-only starting October 1.  Why is this happening? Google says that its customers are using third party whiteboarding platforms, which have gotten great new features. Google will focus on "core content collaboration across Docs, Sheets, and Slides." Jamboard will start "winding down" on October 1. At that time:  The Jamboard app (jamboard.google.com) will become view-only, so you cannot create new Jams or modify existing Jams Google will start converting Jams to PDF files.  If you have Jams you want to keep or continue working on, you can export the Jams or migrate your Jams to a different platform. Google has integrated Miro, FigJam and LucidSpark add-ons with Meet, so you can continue to collaboratively whiteboard in meetings.  If you have a 55 inch Jamboard device, they w

Last week YouTube and Twitch shared the new features they are working on. This week it was Meta’s turn. And yes, it’s new AI-powered features for Facebook and Instagram. There are also updates for Google Photos, TikTok, AdSense, social media and more. 🎧 Listen to this week’s newsletter                        📨 Subscribe to get the Creator Weekly by email Top news and updates this week Use NotebookLM to summarize and create overviews of YouTube videos. Jamboard turns view-only on October 1. Add a cover image to your Google Doc. The dispute between WordPress and WP Engine gets ugly. Meta announces new AI features including video chats with AI versions of creators, automatic translation and dubbing of Reels, and photo editing. TikTok expands paid Subscriptions to more creators. Google Photos updated their video editor. Twitch shared more details about how Shared Chat with Stream Together works. The new AdSense Ads Not Showing Troubleshooter can help you figure out why ads aren’t s