Here’s good news for YouTubers! Get ready, set, and shop on YouTube with Shopify. The two platforms enter into a partnership this 19th day of July 2022. Shopify is one of the largest global eCommerce stores. While YouTube is the largest video-sharing platform in the world with an MRC brand safety distinction. The partnership between … Read more
Here’s great news from Conor Kavanagh, the Ads Policy Manager of YouTube. Through the weekly news flash, he announces that creators can now use new text markup options on YouTube video descriptions. These include bold, italic, and strikethrough characters, that can only be previously used on commenting. It seems that the platform is making it … Read more
Social commerce is on the rise. That is why YouTube enables new product tagging on YouTube shopping. It means to tag products and make money among creators. As part of building YouTube of the future, the platform rolls out an invite-only pilot program for a small group of selected advertisers and creators. The chosen participants … Read more
No one can ever doubt the popularity of short-form videos. That is why Instagram continuously finds ways to boost the usage of Reels. It is TikTok’s main competitor. With creative tools like photo remixes and templates, there is one more than the platform does to push the usage of Reels. Today, new video posts on … Read more
YouTube launched YouTube Air in 2017. It is initially called YouTube TV with a monthly subscription. As the platform builds the future, it allowed free TV streaming with video ads. Today comes a new milestone for YouTube TV as it reaches 5 million subscribers. As it celebrates the milestone, YouTube reminisces some fun facts about … Read more
YouTube Shorts are TikTok clones. They are music clips that last up to 60 seconds. After segmenting YouTube analytics per content type, the platform found out about the rising popularity of such video format. As such, it enables new remixing options for YouTube Shorts. In the recent YouTube weekly news flash, YouTube is rolling out the Cut, Drafts, … Read more
Instagram is no longer a photo-sharing app. It is now a photo-and-video-sharing platform. The platform mainly concentrates on improving Reels like enabling creative remixes, editing tools, and templates. But since 82% of Instagram interaction happens through live streams, the platform is testing a new Instagram live producer for desktops. Instagram’s new live producer tool allows Instagrammers to go … Read more
Last year, YouTube expanded access to community posting to channels with more than 500 subscribers. Community posting allows creators to post text-based content. These include GIFs, graphics, images, polls, etc. Recently, the platform enabled corrections or easier editing of video descriptions and thumbnails. Today, YouTube is texting expiring posts. Again, YouTube’s Ads Policy Manager, Conor … Read more
YouTube knows that comment spam and identity-related abuse are major concerns among creators. That is why the platform continuously creates tools to better protect users against comment spam. The platform also aims to make it harder to impersonate creators. Today, the platform introduces new ways to combat YouTube fake accounts and spam. YouTube now enables … Read more