Here we are in May already. I hope spring has sprung where you are reading this from! This week there are a bunch of YouTube updates, plus news for web publishers, Instagram, Firefly and more. New this week YouTube Creator updates: replace copyright-claimed music with AI generated instrumentals, search your channel’s comments by topic rather than keywords, add multi-language thumbnails, and set channel guidelines. YouTube Live on mobile lets you preview effects before you start the stream. StreamYard lets you stream to Vimeo natively. Instagram’s Edits app added text customization, favorite effects, and the ability to generate video clips with AI. Devine may (or may not) be the reincarnation of Vine. It wants real creators, not AI slop. YouTube Viewer updates: Ask YouTube conversational search, global availability of picture-in-picture, Home feed thumbnail experiment, build your own multiview in YouTube TV and a Shorts shelf on the Google TV Home screen. Go...
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