Category: News

• May 25, 2021

  YouTube Shorts Permissions – What It Is and Why YouTube Dropped the Ball

  A few “short” weeks ago, a strange option started showing up in creator’s video settings. A small section that was titled “Shorts Permissions”. The short paragraph explanation was finished off with a bold, already checked check box that clearly stated “Allow people to sample this content”. Well the mysterious appearance of this on creator’s video…
• March 6, 2020

  Creator Insider Tom Leung Hints at New Features Coming to Studio

  In a recent Twitter discussion, Tom Leung, Director of Product Management at YouTube shared some insights into possible upcoming features for YouTube Studio. One is imminent, and the other is some ways off. Firstly, just around the corner is the ability to bulk upload, a feature that was in Studio Classic, but not seen in…
• February 11, 2020

  Don’t Lose Your YouTube Channel!

  As we entered into 2020, there has been a sizeable up-tick in reports of channels that have been hacked, taken over by undesirables, wreaking havoc over someone’s pride and joy. YouTube has been hard pressed to help these creators due to the volume of cases and being under resourced. There have been reports that it…
• November 17, 2019

  YouTube Roll Out COPPA Compliance Requirements to All Creators

  Earlier this week, YouTube released a video for all creators on the platform instructing them to now flag their content as “made for kids” or “not made for kids” in response the changes to be compliant with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). This video, subsequent documentation and the resulting discussion, videos, etc. have…
• June 12, 2019

  YouTube Rolls Out New Subscriber Bell Analytic

  Just yesterday, YouTube announced via their Team YouTube channel and Twitter account that they are rolling out a new analytic card in their YT Studio for the creator’s subscriber bell notifications. The new card can be found in a channels’ Analytic menu under the Build an Audience tab. The card shows two data points regarding…
• May 28, 2019

  YouTube Announces Changes to Subscriber Count Display

  Last week, YouTube announced via their Twitter account (@TeamYouTube) that they will be making changes to the way the subscriber count for channels are publicly displayed from August 2019. They linked to a YouTube Help Community post that outlined the details. All public facing subscriber counts will be truncated to a uniform format: counts under…
• April 6, 2019

  YouTube Limits Mobile Live Streaming to Channels over 1k Subscribers

  In the last 24 hours or so, creators on Youtube have reported that their ability to stream to Youtube via the Youtube app on iOS and Android have been blocked. A message has been coming up informing the creator that they now require 1000 subscribers to live stream via mobile. Interestingly, this is only for…
• February 28, 2019

  Is Sub for Sub Finally Dead on Youtube?

  YouTube Community Guidelines Explained – Fake Engagement Policy In this video Youtube Community Guidelines Explained, Doug discusses the updated Community Guidelines regarding Fake Engagement – is sub for sub really dead? What does it mean for competitions and giveaways? Let’s discuss! Fake Engagement Policy link: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/3399767
• July 16, 2018

  NEWS – Photoshop Reportedly Coming to iPad

  Over the weekend, Bloomberg reported that Adobe will announce that Photoshop will be launching on the iPad at their Max Conference in October. Rumours state the app could launch sometime in 2019. I talk about it in the video below:
• June 17, 2018

  MacOS Mojave – Killer Features for Content Creators

  At the recent Apple WWDC event, Apple outlined some of it’s upcoming software/OS iterations for iOS, tvOS, WatchOS, and MacOS. The latter has some killer features for content creators that I want to highlight.In the video below, I talk about the features that stood out to me as being awesome upgrades and new features that…