Creator Weekly: Made on YouTube announcements, Adobe Premiere Android app, Multimodal Search Performance

Hello readers! Autumn is here, with cooler weather, pumpkin pie spice in everything, and the Made on YouTube event, with tons of new features on the horizon.

There’s also a free Adobe Premiere app, and new features in Google Vids, Search Console, Discord, LinkedIn, X and more. 

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Top Updates

• Tons of new features for viewers and creators are coming to YouTube over the coming months. Check out the Made on YouTube recap. 
• The free Adobe Premiere video editing app is available for Android.
• Google Vids now lets even free personal accounts use AI to generate HD video.
• Google Search Console now has multimodal Search performance reports. If your site has images it gives you an idea of how they perform in Google Lens search and other image-prompted searches.
• Discord has put you in a category. If you were incorrectly identified as a Teen, you’ll have to verify your age. 
• LinkedIn is expanding verification, including peer verified connections and workplace verification.
• LinkedIn launched a new post proofreading tool. 
• X released a new X Livestream API, so 3rd party platforms will likely implement new features soon.
• X expanded “Under the Hood” reports to let you know if a government blocked your post.
• Snapchat lets Lens+ subscribers turn messages into songs. 
• There are new creator tools in Google Flow.
• Use Adobe editing tools in Google Gemini.

Made on YouTube

This week was YouTube’s annual “Made on YouTube” event where they announce new features that will be rolling out in the coming weeks, months and into 2027. Watch the announcements.

There are a lot of updates. If the list below isn’t enough for you, check out my detailed recap of the announcements.

AI is everywhere, of course:

• Customize your home feed with AI prompts (expanding within the US).
• Get a customized audio podcast recommendation guide.
• Conversational video editor for Shorts and the YouTube Create mobile app.
• Use Ask YouTube for Shopping-related chat.
• Ask Studio is launching on mobile, can help you understand your metrics and will help you identify older videos that could use a new thumbnail.
• AI-powered comment moderation, based on your moderation style.
• AI likeness detection will be adding voice recognition.

Shorts features:

• You can now create a Shorts Series (microdramas FTW)
• Image posts and carousels will appear in the Shorts feed in most countries.

TV features:

• Posts will be available on TVs.
• Comments on videos are easier on TVs

Community Building:

• Members-only communities.
• Group messaging, in addition to the currently available 1-to-1 DMs.
• Viewers can super-Hype your videos by spending Jewels

Live Streaming

• “Watch with” expansion to live react to long-form videos.
• Go Live Together matchmaking.
• Live showdown, where two co-streamers battle for the most engagement.
•  Live auto-dubbing.

Advanced Analysis

• Dynamic thumbnails, matches one of 3 thumbnails to different audiences.
• Shorts video A/B testing to help you find the best hook.

Monetization

• Brand Partnerships updates.
• Dynamic Ad Insertion.
• Expansion of the Shopping affiliate program and localized shopping links.

Free Adobe Premiere for Android

The free Adobe Premiere app is finally available for Android devices. Premiere is Adobe’s pro video editing app.

• Enhance Audio: reduce background noise. 
• Frame Accurate Editing: Precise control over your clips.
• Multi-Track Timeline: Layer video, music, text and effects. 
• Adobe Stock: Effects, transitions, creative assets, music.
• Creator-made templates.  
• UHD: Edit and export videos up to 4K.
• Firefly AI features: Generative Fill, Image-to-Video, Generate Sound
• No ads or watermarks.
• Requires Android 13 or greater and at least 5GB RAM

Install the app from the Google Play Store. It’s also available for iPhone and iPad (that launched a year ago).

YouTube and Video

A new experiment for YouTube Shopping: YouTube is testing optimized product tag placement. This will be based on how viewers interact with the tagged items. If viewers show interest, it will show on both the video and in the description. If viewers don’t engage, the tags will only show in the video description.

Google Vids now includes AI-generated video clips for both personal and Workspace accounts. Use it to generate new clips, edit existing clips, animate still images or extend clips for smooth transitions. It uses Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, Google’s latest video generation model. Output is up to 10 seconds (you set the duration) in HD (1080p). 

On Twitch there are concerns that Stream Together/co-streaming combined view counts can be misused to affect where channels appear while browsing. To address this, Twitch Browse Category pages will use a channel’s individual viewer count when ranking by viewership.Combined viewer accounts appear on channel pages and the left navigation for followers (and this uses the combined viewcount).

X announced a totally new X Livestream API. It can let you go live, schedule broadcasts, moderate chat and get live events for alerts and overlays. As I noted a couple of weeks ago, Restream launched new X integrations, likely because they had early access to the new API. Other streaming services are likely to also update their X streaming features.

In Restream you can now position logos, captions and QR codes anywhere on the screen.

Web Publishing

If you have a website or blog with images, the new multimodal Search performance reports in Google Search Console will let you see how your content performs in searches with Google Lens, Circle to Search (Android), image uploads to Google Search and Chrome “Search this image”.

The Google Search September 2026 spam update is rolling out. This may take up to two weeks.

If your website runs on WordPress, be sure to install the WordPress 7.1.2 security release.

Social Media

Instagram head Adam Mosseri has been posting overviews about the Instagram Algorithm. Social Media Today has a nice recap.

Last month Meta settled a massive lawsuit and promised changes that would make Facebook and Instagram less harmful to teens. Facebook called on YouTube and TikTok to implement the same features. Now YouTube says that they already have teen protection measures in place, so they won’t implement Meta’s specific changes.

Starting this week, Discord has placed all users into age groups (Adult, Teen, Unconfirmed). Teens have safety restrictions on their accounts.  90% of users won’t need to confirm their age, with grouping based on things like age of the account, and which servers you belong to. If you need to confirm your age, you can now use a credit card, App store or AgeKey instead of providing an ID or selfie. 

LinkedIn is expanding verification, “to help members and businesses build trust”. Verification for individuals on LinkedIn is free.

• Verified members can verify connections that they worked or studied with. With enough confirmations, a verification badge will be automatically added.
• Company Page admins can remove known imposter accounts.
• They are testing workplace verification for current employment at some companies.
• Verified on LinkedIn lets users connect their verified LinkedIn Profile to partner platforms like Truecaller, PeerSpot, Adobe, TrustRadius and UserTesting.

LinkedIn is rolling out a new AI proofreading feature. This does not fully rewrite your post, but rather “helps proofread and clarify while keeping your voice”. This is available to Premium subscribers.

LinkedIn is improving its identification of AI slop images, and giving members the option to report AI slop in messages.

X is expanding its “Under the Hood” reports. If you have made at least 10 posts in the prior month, and your account is at least 1 year old, you can see labels on your account and posts that could affect visibility. You can now also see if any post was blocked in a particular country after a legal demand.

If you have a Lens+ subscription on Snapchat there are new AI-powered tools: 

• Turn Chat messages into songs. 
• AI Photoshoot cleans up your photos where someone closed their eyes, got caught with an odd face, or the lighting is bad.
• AI Remix of Snaps sent by your friends.
• Change the style of your stickers. 
• AI-enhanced fonts for captions.

Tools

Google released 6 new creator-created tools for Google Flow: 

•  Mondo Sónico: Generates custom background ambiance and sound effects
• CaptionCast: Automatically generate styled and animated captions. 
• ThumbnailForge: Create a thumb from a single image, headline and prompt.
• Surface: Generate custom textures and map them to 3D walls, floors and ceilings. 
• CollageMotion Pro: Generate animated collages from text prompts.
• SwissFlow Studio: Convert scripts into Swiss-style motion graphics. 

Access to Google Flow requires AI Plus, Pro or Ultra or qualifying Workspace plan.

You can now use Adobe editing tools in Google Gemini, including Photoshop, Lightroom, Express and Firefly. You can upload your photos in a Gemini chat and ask Adobe to edit them, turn a single image into social media-ready versions, and customize templates. You can enable Adobe in the Gemini Personal Intelligence settings. Learn more.

Adobe is just one of the tools that you can connect to Gemini. There are new Connect Apps for Productivity (Airtable, Linear, monday.com, PandaDoc, Wispr AI, Zoho), creativity (Adobe, PicsArt, Squarespace, Webflow) and lifestyle (apartments.com, Experian, Peloton, SeatGeek).

If you use Gemini Notebook for research, you can refer to it when using Gemini to generate content in Google Docs. This grounds the output in the Notebook sources, and provinces inline citations. This is available to personal accounts with AI Pro and Ultra, and select Workspace plans.

Adobe also updated the Adobe for Claude plugin, adding Acrobat to tools like Express, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Lightroom, and InDesign.

Microsoft launched a new version of the Copilot app. You can navigate through Home (your starting point), Office in Copilot, Code, and Autopilot (an assistive agent).

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