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You might think that summertime means everyone is on holiday, but the reality is that tech and the world rolls on. The US presidential election is suddenly more exciting, and the Olympics kicked off in Paris. And there are updates for web publishers, video creators and more. Also, if you are receiving Creator Weekly by email,you can now get a phone app for easy reading. Scroll down for details. Top news and updates this week Beehiiv launched free newsletter apps for all users The Olympics are on! Google may not deprecate third-party cookies in Chrome Save music from YouTube Shorts for later use YouTube Shopping Affiliates can save items with the new YouTube Shopping extension Videos in Google Drive can now have automatic captions Upload an image as a custom TikTok thumbnail TikTok is integrated with Eventbrite for promoting in-person events Twitch clarified their sexual harassment policy Twitch is rolling out a new Clip creation tool Substack added post creation to their mobile

Another weekend has rolled around, and it’s time for another update. I hope you aren’t being haunted by the Windows blue screen of death . This week the top stories are the launch of Google Vids, Google shutting down their goo.gl short links, new YouTube Shorts features, and more. Top news and updates this week If you have Google Workspace Labs on your account, try the new Google Vids. Google’s goo.gl short links will stop working next year. Check to see if you need to update your website or social media. The YouTube Shorts editor has a new text-to-speech tool and emoji kitchen effect, and may offer some thumbnail customization options in the near future. An AI training dataset includes YouTube video subtitles, scraped without permission. You can search to see whether your favorite creator’s (or your) videos were included. Vimeo updated their terms of service to require labeling of realistic AI-generated content. StreamYard is adding Dark Mode, Reusable Studios and 4k Local Recordin

What’s happening this week? It seems like every platform wants to be a social network, with comments on Spotify podcasts, Substack pushing Notes, Beehiiv making it easier for people to like & comment. Plus YouTube is launching new tools in the Shorts editor, you can transfer your photos and videos between Google Photos and iCloud Photos, set up recording before your Meet meeting and more. Top news and updates this week Six new tools coming to the YouTube Shorts editor, including auto-generated captions. Long shut down Apple news site TUAW was relaunched with AI-generated articles under the original authors bylines New features are coming to StreamYard studio Instagram shared Reels tips Spotify is launching comments on podcasts What would happen if you disavow all backlinks to your website? Cyrus Shepherd tried it. You can now transfer your Google Photos library to Apple iCloud Photos and vice versa. There is a Threads bonus program, seemingly aimed at Instagram creators. Goo

I hope you’re staying cool this week! It was fortunate there was a holiday so I didn’t need to do anything much. This week there are a few updates from YouTube, news from TwitchCon Europe, Threads celebrated its first birthday, and more. Top news and updates this week YouTube updates the Erase Song tool to remove copyright-claimed music Twitch announced new features in the works for the mobile app, Stories, Clips, Stream Together, Power Ups and more YouTube live streamers can now go through policy training for unauthorized 3rd party content warnings Google Search Console had delayed Performance Reports data this week (but it should be fixed) Threads is one year old, and has plans for the future Mastodon has a feature that links a shared news article to the author’s Fediverse account After backlash Meta (including Instagram) is changing labels from “Made with AI” to “AI Info” Instagram says focus on sh