Last Endangerment To Download Your Goo.Gl Brusque Link Information

The goo.gl link shortening service volition last close downward on March 30, 2019. This is your final jeopardy to download your brusque link information.

Note that the brusque links volition choke on to redirect correctly, you lot merely won't last able to practise novel goo.gl links or sentiment information nigh your existing goo.gl links.

Google's replacement is Firebase Dynamic Links (FDL), which are designed for app developers. Existing brusque goo.gl links brusque links volition non last migrated to the Firebase console/API.

Download your goo.gl brusque link data

1. Sign inwards to your Google concern human relationship as well as opened upward goo.gl  

You volition come across a tabular array of your data:

• Original URL
• Date brusque link was created
• Short URL
• Number of clicks on the brusque URL

2. Click the Download CSV link to download your information equally Comma Separated Values

The CSV information tin last imported into Google Sheets or into whatever spreadsheet software.

Read the master copy annunciation on the Google Developers blog for to a greater extent than details.

Google Photos Divide From Google Drive, No Longer Available For Youtube Import

Google announced today that Google Photos volition no longer last integrated alongside Google Drive. Youtube is also updating its desktop video uploader, in addition to the novel version (currently inwards beta) does non include the selection to import videos from Google Photos. Also, the novel YouTube desktop uploader no longer includes import from Google Photos.

Google+ Photos were made available inwards Google Drive in March 2015, soon earlier the independent Google+-free Google Photos launched. That integration has been been useful inwards a seat out of ways:

• Photos in addition to videos uploaded or synced to Google Drive appear inwards Google Photos in addition to thence tin last added to Photos albums in addition to shared via Photos.
• You tin use Google Drive file embedding options to embed Google Photos videos on your weblog or website.
• You tin import videos from Google Drive into your personal YouTube channel using the "Import from Google Photos" option.
• Photos in addition to videos backed upwards or uploaded to Google Photos tin last accessed past times 3rd political party sites in addition to services past times linking your Google Drive

Google's stated argue for the breakup is that it's confusing:

Our destination alongside these changes is to simplify around features that caused confusion for our users, based on feedback in addition to our ain research.

And it definitely tin be confusing, for illustration alongside around people non realizing that deleting images inwards Photos also deletes them inwards Drive (and vice versa).

As of July 10th, that syncing volition stop.

• Photos in addition to videos that are already synced volition rest where they are - photos from Drive that appear inwards your Google Photos volition rest inwards Photos in addition to photos from Photos that currently appear inwards your Drive volition rest inwards Drive. They volition non convey upwards extra storage space.
• Photos in addition to videos inwards Google Photos in addition to Drive volition last dissever copies, thence deleting a photograph from Google Drive volition non impact the re-create stored inwards Google Photos in addition to vice versa.
• You tin piece of job the official desktop Backup & Sync tools to backup your photos in addition to videos to both Photos in addition to Drive. But if yous upload your images at Original Quality to both places they volition convey upwards storage infinite inwards both Photos in addition to Drive.
• You volition last able to direct specific photos in addition to videos inwards your Google Drive to import to Google Photos, but at that spot won't last an selection to import from Photos to Drive.

What this also agency is that your photos in addition to videos backed upwards to Google Photos may last inaccessible to 3rd political party applications unless yous upload a dissever re-create of the images to Google Drive. This isn't exactly surprising as Google Photos is explicitly designed for "storing, enjoying in addition to sharing personal memories", in addition to is explicitly non for commercial or corporation piece of job or hosting website media.

In an additional change, YouTube's novel desktop video upload tool (currently inwards beta), no longer has the selection to import from Google Photos at all, thence eventually direct upload to YouTube may last the exactly option.

Read on for details almost how these changes volition piece of job in addition to what they may hateful to you.

What is changing?

On July 10, 2019, Google Photos in addition to Google Drive volition no longer sync alongside each other.

• New photos in addition to videos uploaded to Google Drive volition non automatically exhibit inwards Google Photos, in addition to if yous delete an epitome inwards Drive it volition non last deleted inwards Photos.
• New photos in addition to videos uploaded to Google Photos volition non automatically exhibit inwards Google Drive, in addition to if yous delete an epitome inwards Photos it volition non last deleted inwards Drive.

Images already shared betwixt services volition remain:

• If yous are syncing photos in addition to videos from My Drive inwards Google Drive to your Google Photos library, photos in addition to videos volition remain synced every bit long as yous don’t plow the setting off.
• Any Google Photos photos in addition to videos yous already direct maintain inwards Google Drive volition remain inwards Drive, but after the alter editing or deleting those photos volition non impact the re-create inwards Google Photos.

How volition this alter impact your storage quota?

Google Accounts come upwards with costless 15GB storage for Drive, Photos in addition to Gmail, alongside the option to buy more. With the changes, here's how epitome in addition to video uploads volition impact your storage quota:

• If yous direct the selection to upload in addition to backup your photos in addition to videos to Google Photos at "High Quality", rather than "Original Quality", yous teach unlimited costless storage.  
• If yous upload photos in addition to videos direct to Google Drive, they count against your storage quota.
• Items synced betwixt Photos in addition to Drive earlier July 10, 2019 volition non convey upwards extra storage space.
• If yous manually upload a photograph or video from Drive to photos.google.com, it volition convey upwards storage infinite inwards both places.
• If yous piece of job the desktop Backup & Sync app for Windows or Mac, in addition to yous upload photos in addition to videos to both Drive in addition to Photos, it volition upload a re-create to each service, but it volition non convey upwards duplicate storage.
• Deleting an epitome from Drive volition non impact a re-create of the epitome inwards Photos (and vice versa), thence the other re-create volition proceed to convey upwards storage space. 
• This isn't a change, but last aware that uploading photos in addition to videos to Google Photos using a third political party tool that uses the Google Photos API, uploads at Original Quality, in addition to thence counts towards your storage quota.

You tin trim down the size of "Original Quality" photos in addition to videos to trim down the total of storage yous are using, but earlier yous create that, last aware that it volition also trim down the size of images uploaded via other Google products, including Blogger in addition to Hangouts.

Check how much storage yous direct maintain available inwards your Google account.

Copy selected Google Drive photos in addition to videos into Google Photos

There volition last a new "Import from Drive" selection inwards Google Photos, which lets yous pick in addition to direct which of your Google Drive images yous import to Photos. Selected images volition last copied to your Google Photos.

To re-create photos in addition to videos from Google Drive to your Google Photos:

1. On a desktop computer, sign inwards to photos.google.com
2. At move past times correct click Upload, thence select Google Drive
3. Find in addition to select the photos yous desire to re-create into Google Photos
4. Click Upload

There are around limitations, thence see this article inwards the Google Photos assist middle for details.

Items copied betwixt Google Drive in addition to Google Photos inwards Original Quality volition count towards your storage inwards both products.

How this alter volition impact 3rd political party tools

The quondam Picasa Web Album API allowed 3rd political party sites in addition to services to access the photos in addition to videos yous uploaded to your Google account, both inwards the quondam Picasa Web Albums, in addition to thence subsequently inwards Google Photos. That was near downward at the commencement of the year.

It was replaced alongside a novel Google Photos API, which does allow 3rd political party sites to access your photograph library, but prohibits services from processing, copying or permanently storing the users media.

Some services similar WeVideo (which I piece of job for video editing) exactly offering access to your media via Google Drive. With the change, photos in addition to videos yous direct maintain backed upwards to Google Photos volition no longer last accessible that way. 

And the trick to embed videos uploaded to Google Photos on your website using the Google Drive re-create volition no longer work.

With the change, additional steps volition last required to re-upload photos in addition to videos to Google Drive or the 3rd political party sites directly.

Note that if yous desire to piece of job images yous direct maintain uploaded to Google Photos for your website or blog, at that spot may nevertheless last options that create non withdraw yous to also upload a re-create to Google Drive.

If yous direct maintain a Blogger blog, yous tin insert photos from Google Photos past times selecting Insert Image,  then choosing From Your Phone  as a source.

If yous direct maintain a WordPress.com site, yous can link your trouble organization human relationship to Google Photos. And for self-hosted WordPress sites at that spot are a seat out of unofficial plugins that may piece of job to insert images into your site (I haven't tried whatsoever to recommend).

YouTube Desktop Video Uploader Beta does non include import from Google Photos

One of the swell tools YouTube offers is the option to import videos uploaded or backed upwards to Google Photos into your YouTube channel directly. With syncing betwixt Google Photos in addition to Google Drive, this also permit yous import your videos uploaded to Google Drive into YouTube. 

This procedure was sometimes glitchy, in addition to importing video from Photos into a YouTube channel on a Brand Account hasn't truly worked for a brace of years.

The novel YouTube desktop uploader does non include an import option. 

The classic YouTube desktop uploader volition proceed permit yous import your Google Photos videos until it's retired (probably subsequently this year), in addition to Google Drive videos until syncing betwixt Photos in addition to Drive is near downward on July 10th.

If importing videos from your Google Photos or Google Drive is an of import characteristic for you, be certain to ship feedback to YouTube direct letting them know that. The feedback selection is the icon that looks similar a speech communication balloon alongside a ! at bottom left on the screenshot. Some pages on YouTube direct maintain a "Send Feedback" link at the bottom of the page.

Learn to a greater extent than in addition to teach help

• Announcement: Changing how Google Photos in addition to Google Drive piece of job together
• Google Photos Help Center: Upcoming changes to Google Photos in addition to Google Drive
• Get assistance: Official Google Photos assist community, Official Google Drive assist community

Youtube Makes It Easier For Creators To Resolve Manual Content Id Claims

Today YouTube is making ii changes that should become far easier for creators to resolve manual Content ID claims: fourth dimension stamps showing just what business office of the video content is claimed, as well as automatic unloosen of claims if they are edited to take the claimed content.

Content ID is a tool available to copyright holders that ain the rights to a "substantial trunk of master cloth that is often uploaded yesteryear the YouTube user community."  Claims tin endure made yesteryear YouTube's automatic matching organization or manually. The copyright holders tin pick out 1 of 3 options:

• Block the video from beingness viewed (either inward specific countries or worldwide)
• Monetize the video (in roughly cases, similar encompass videos, revenue is shared amongst creators)
• Track the video's viewership as well as other stats

Creators tin dispute a Content ID claim if they believe the claim was incorrect, or if they accept the rights to purpose the content. You tin run into whatsoever copyright claims on your videos at www.youtube.com/my_videos_copyright or the Video Copyright Info page inward YouTube Studio.

For YouTube Partners, disputed videos proceed to demo ads, amongst funds held separately spell the dispute is resolved.

There are ii changes for manually claimed videos, starting today:

1. Copyright holders are directly required to render timestamps for the exact business office of your video beingness manually claimed

And YouTube says they volition endure enforcing this requirement:

We’ll endure evaluating the accuracy of these timestamps. Copyright owners who repeatedly neglect to render accurate information volition accept their access to manual claiming revoked.

Timestamps are already included when video content is automatically claimed.

2. You tin purpose the YouTube editor to take the claimed content, as well as that volition unloosen the claim

YouTube offers several editing options that allow you lot take the claimed content from your video

• Completely mute the claimed segment of your video
• Replace the claimed audio amongst gratuitous music from YouTube's Audio Library
• Remove the claimed segment of video using the "Trim" option 

Note that at that topographic point are roughly limitations to the editing process:

• The editor tin alone endure used on videos less than six hours long 
• If your video has to a greater extent than than 100,000 views, you lot may non endure able to relieve the edits (unless your channel is inward the YouTube Partner Program). You may endure able to relieve every bit a novel video.
• You may alone swap inward 1 well track from the Audio Library.
• Trimming your video next an well swap may upshot inward your video beingness muted.

Ideally, you lot alone purpose music (or video clips) that you lot accept limited written permission or a licence to use. If you lot create that, you lot tin dispute wrong claims. 

Additional information 

• Announcement: More information as well as amend tools to resolve Content ID Claims
• YouTube Help: What is a Content ID Claim?
• YouTube Help: What is a Manual Claim?
• YouTube Help: Dispute a Content ID claim
• YouTube Help: Remove claimed songs from videos
• YouTube Help: Swap the well runway on your video
• YouTube Help: Trim your videos

Copyright Holders Tin No Longer Monetize Manually Claimed Videos Amongst Unintentional Role Of Music

YouTube announced an update to to brand the copyright claiming organisation a fighting fairer: YouTube's novel policy forbids copyright owners from "using the Manual Claiming tool to monetize creator videos amongst really brusk or unintentional uses of music."

Note that this does NOT hateful yous tin terminate operate copyrighted music without permission:

• This change only applies to manual claiming, not YouTube's automated Content ID system.
• Copyright holders tin terminate even too therefore prevent the creator from monetizing
• Copyright holders tin terminate even too therefore block the video from beingness viewed
• An exception to this policy is "a compilation of brusk clips primarily containing well content" such equally "Top 10" lists of music or well content or "Compilations of brusk clips from music-focused social media apps"

The policy alter goes into lawsuit inwards mid-September. And YouTube says at that spot volition last penalties for violating the Manual Claiming policy:

Once nosotros start enforcement, copyright owners who repeatedly neglect to adhere to these policies volition convey their access to Manual Claiming suspended.

If yous are a creator, yous even too therefore involve pay attending to whatever music playing inwards the background spell yous record, equally copyright holders tin terminate guide to block your video. You mightiness last able to edit out a snippet of a vocal playing on the radio, but it's improve if the music isn't audible inwards the start place.

And if yous desire to add together music, brand certain it's licensed for operate on YouTube (for example, free songs from YouTube's music library). 

If yous believe a claim on your video is wrong, yous tin terminate dispute it.

It remains to last seen whether this is a boon or bane for creators. On the i hand, unopen to copyright holders may guide non to claim videos amongst music unintentionally playing inwards the background. But it could final result inwards to a greater extent than videos that are blocked, rather than monetized. Time volition tell.

Related: YouTube makes it easier to resolve manual Content ID claims

Youtube No Longer Automatically Publishes Community Contributions Due To Spam Together With Abuse

Because of an "increase inwards abuse together with spam" inwards Community Contributions, all contributions volition live on held for channel possessor review.

As a YouTube creator, you lot tin enable Community Contributions to permit your fans to add together subtitles together with interpret the titles together with descriptions of your videos. It's a cracking means to help accomplish viewers all around the world.

But, every bit amongst thence many expert things, spammers ruin it for everyone.

How Community Contributions work

1. Viewers submit contributions
2. YouTube moderates submissions for spam together with inappropriate content.
3. If plenty people convey added translations to a video, the community is asked to help review them.

Previously, when a submission got plenty reviews, it was automatically approved for the video. Unfortunately, this procedure was non working good enough, together with contributions amongst spam together with abusive linguistic communication sometimes were published.

Now, all contributions are held for manual review past times the channel possessor earlier publication

Enable Community Contributions

If you lot would similar your viewers to help interpret your videos, you lot tin enable Community Contributions for private videos or your whole channel.

1. Sign inwards to YouTube together with opened upwardly Studio (studio.youtube.com)

2. Click Transcriptions on the left menu

3. At exceed correct click the gear icon

4. Click the push to Turn On Community Contributions for all the videos on your channel.

To enable Community Contributions on a unmarried video, get-go opened upwardly your Videos list, choose a video, together with then click Transcriptions on the left menu.  You volition come across the alternative to plow Community Contributions on or off.

Review together with Manage Community Contributions

Currently you lot tin only review Community Contributions inwards Creator Studio Classic.

1. Sign inwards to YouTube together with opened upwardly YouTube Studio (studio.youtube.com)

2. Click Transcriptions on the left menu

3. At the bottom of the left card click Creator Studio Classic to opened upwardly your Community Contributions tab

4.  You volition come across a listing of contributions In review. Click the Review button to review the text.

5. YouTube volition demo you lot the master text, the contributed text together with an automatic translation of the contributed text for you lot to review.

6. You tin together with then create create the contribution

• Edit the text
• Approve together with expose the submission past times clicking the Publish button
• Report spam or abuse past times clicking Report
• Ask your community for improvements past times clicking Needs to a greater extent than work

Learn to a greater extent than inwards the YouTube Help Center: 

• Turn on & Manage Community Contributions
• Contribute translated content

Youtube Tightens Verification Eligibility Requirements

September 20, 2019: YouTube has revised as well as reversed to a greater extent than or less of the changes listed below. See my updated post for details.

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YouTube is changing the criteria for verification to focus on "prominent channels that accept a clear demand for proof of authenticity". YouTube volition automatically verify creators, artists, companies as well as populace figures that come across the next criteria:

• A large audience as well as community on YouTube
• Wide recognition outsize of YouTube, amongst a potent online presence
• Your channel has a unique scream could live confused amongst other YouTube channels

There isn't whatever agency to asking verification. 

Verified channels volition no longer accept a especial checkmark badge. Instead the channel scream volition accept a grayness background to highlight the channel name.

YouTube says 1 argue they are making this alter is that many viewers associate the checkmark amongst an endorsement of content, rather than identity. The novel await volition display across all platforms as well as "is to a greater extent than hard to replicate" (so it won't function to purpose a scream that ends with  ✔ or ☑)

These novel criteria apply to every channel, so if your channel is currently verified, it may no longer live eligible. There is an selection to appeal if y'all believe your channel verification is removed inwards error. 

The changes volition acquire into outcome inwards October.

One of the few souvenirs I accept from Google+ is the verification badge that appears on my YouTube channel. I was verified on Google+ every bit a Top Contributor/Product Expert as well as that carried over to my channel that used the same Google identity.

Under the novel criteria, I'm no longer eligible. It was overnice spell it lasted, only I won't immature adult woman the badgering "how did YOU acquire verified" comments on my videos.

Read on for to a greater extent than information most this alter as well as larn how to appeal.


If your channel is currently verified, only no longer eligible, y'all should have an e-mail from YouTube Creators.

If your channel is nevertheless eligible, y'all should likewise have an e-mail that states that.

As the e-mail notifications don't refer the affected channel name, if y'all accept to a greater extent than than 1 verified channel y'all tin confirm channel condition past times viewing the banners on  Studio Beta dashboard (studio.youtube.com).

How to Appeal removal of your YouTube channel's Verification

If y'all received a discovery verification volition live removed, as well as y'all believe your channel genuinely is eligible for verification, y'all tin submit an appeal.

The appeal shape asks for links to your social media profiles, as well as links to intelligence articles or "other trustworthy online sources" that refer your channel.

If y'all submit the appeal earlier Oct 17, YouTube promises is volition live processed earlier whatever changes are made.

There is no agency to asking verification if your channel is unverified.

How to distinguish your channel without verification

Even if your channel isn't eligible for verification, y'all tin arrive stand upward out. Give your channel a unique scream as well as channel icon, as well as customize the pattern of your channel.

And y'all can report channels that are impersonating your channel

Learn More

• Announcement: Updates to YouTube's Verification Program
• More information as well as FAQ:  Coming Soon: New Design as well as Criteria for Channel Verification on YouTube
• YouTube Help Center: Verification badges on channels

Verify Your Blogger Spider Web Log Inward Google Search Console

If y'all bring a Blogger blog, y'all tin easily verify your weblog in Google Search Console alongside only a few clicks. The Google Webmasters has made a video showing how y'all tin create that as business office of their novel Google Search Console grooming series. 

I've also written upward the step-by-step instructions below. 

Google Search Console is a useful tool to monitor together with deal how your website or weblog appears inwards the Google Search results.

• View together with ready indexing problems
• Request re-indexing of novel or updated content.
• View Google Search traffic information for your site, including how ofttimes your site appears inwards Google Search results, which Google search queries exhibit your site, together with how ofttimes searchers click your site inwards the Search results.
• Receive alerts when in that place are indexing, spam, or other issues on your site.
• See which sites link to your site.
• AdSense recommends using Search Console tools to meliorate your site visibility together with (hopefully) increase traffic to your site.

You volition also require to verify your website or weblog inwards Search Console to link to it from your YouTube video Cards together with End Screens.

Verify your Blogger Blog inwards Google Search Console

New Blogger blogs should live on added together with verified automatically inwards your Search Console account. However, if your weblog isn't automatically added, y'all tin easily verify your Blogger weblog inwards Search Console.

If y'all are using Google Sites, Google Domains, or bring whatever other form of site, the Google Webmasters aid middle has instructions for Search Console verification.

Here's how to verify your Blogger weblog inwards Search Console:

1. Sign inwards to Google Search Console (https://search.google.com/search-console) with the same Google work concern human relationship e-mail y'all role to sign inwards to Blogger.

2. At tumble out left click the electrical current Search Property. 

If your Blogger weblog is already verified together with on the list, only click the weblog cite to encounter the data. You shouldn't require to create anything else. If your weblog is non listed there, become on to pace 3.

3. Click + Add Property

4. Select URL Prefix,  enter your weblog URL, and click Continue

5. Verification should live on immediate, together with y'all should encounter an Auto Verification confirmation

Search Console starts collecting information equally presently equally your weblog is verified.

Note that "older Blogger blogs" are non automatically verified, but tin live on verified using the HTML tag method. While Google Webmasters does non define an "older blog", I would gauge it's blogs using the really one-time "Classic" theme.

2019 Twelvemonth Inward Review: Youtube Studio, Policy Updates Too Creator Tools

2019 brought many changes for YouTube creators, from the novel YouTube Studio as well as stricter policies, to the removal of straight messaging as well as the final lingering Google+-related features. YouTube truncated subscriber counts as well as tried (but to a greater extent than oftentimes than non failed) to modify how the verification badge was awarded. Plus lots more.

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki shared 3 letters to creators this year, in February, April, and November. They are the best way to acquire a feel of YouTube's priorities: "supporting creator as well as creative mortal success, improving communication as well as engagement, as well as living upward to our responsibility."

These are the biggest changes inwards 2019:

• The novel YouTube Studio 
• The novel Live Control Room as well as demise of Hangouts on Air
• Removal of YouTube DMs 
• YouTube policy updates but about harassment, violence as well as misinformation
• New tools to bargain amongst copyright claims
• New ways for YouTube Partners to earn money
• Other to channel as well as creator features
• Limited features on videos aimed at kids

There were also updates for viewers, including a redesigned homepage, the mightiness to VR on to a greater extent than platforms and the mightiness to watch YouTube on the Amazon Fire TV.

If yous are interested inwards trying novel features, cheque out YouTube New for desktop experiments yous tin try. You tin acquire almost electrical current experiments past times keeping an oculus on this thread inwards the YouTube forum. If yous have got an iPhone, yous tin also sign upward to live an iOS YouTube app beta tester.

The novel YouTube Studio

This twelvemonth the novel YouTube Studio (now the default. There are novel features for managing your videos, agreement your channel stats as well as much more. 

You may nevertheless involve to furnish to classic Studio to grapple your playlists or edit video endscreens as well as cards, but it is to a greater extent than oftentimes than non complete. And there a issue of features that are non available inwards classic at all.

Most creators nevertheless have got the pick to furnish to classic YouTube Analytics as well as Studio, but that volition become away at some dot inwards early on 2020.  

Here are some of the features inwards YouTube Studio:

• The Copyright Match Tool lets yous come across a listing of reuploads of your videos. You tin as well as then produce upward one's heed whether to contact the uploader or submit a copyright complaint. This is alone available to channels inwards the YouTube Partner Program.
• There are new tools to aid yous bargain amongst copyright claims in YouTube Studio. You tin at nowadays come across copyright bang information on your YouTube Studio dashboard as well as yous tin filter your Video listing to notice your videos amongst copyright strikes or claims. 
• importing videos from Google Photos. If your channel is inwards the YouTube Partner Program, yous tin manually add together advertizing breaks to longer videos during the upload process.
• You tin at nowadays filter your channel comments. The default shows yous comments that yous have got non yet responded to, but yous tin also filter past times subscription status, channel membership, or how many subscribers the commenter has. You may desire to pay special attending to comments from your pop subscribers.
• There is a new YouTube Partner Program Setup Page. If your channel is non yet inwards the YouTube Partner Program, it shows to a greater extent than accurate information almost your channel's populace watchtime hours. It also no longer requires linking AdSense until your channel is eligible for monetization. 
• New channel permissions rolled out to a little per centum of channels. These allow yous give others access to your YouTube Studio at 4 unlike levels: manager, editor, viewer as well as viewer limited. I expression this to expand to to a greater extent than channels inwards 2020.

This is non at all a consummate listing of features added to YouTube Studio this year. For to a greater extent than updates see  the overview of features lately added to Studio as well as that are inwards the works in the YouTube Help Center, as well as subscribe to this thread of YouTube Studio Desktop Release Notes.

The novel Live Control Room

The new YouTube Live Control Room in YouTube Studio lets yous schedule, monitor as well as grapple your alive streams. It simplifies current creation past times letting yous job a completed current every bit a template for novel stream. You tin fifty-fifty acquire real-time information spell yous are streaming. 

It is no longer possible to access the one-time YouTube Live Events page, which at nowadays redirects to the Live Control Room. 

One of the casualties of the displace to Live Control Room was Hangouts on Air. That used the one-time classic Hangouts video telephone band interface to allow yous alive current amongst zero to a greater extent than than a figurer amongst a webcam as well as an cyberspace connection. That doesn't good every bit good exciting today, but was a game changer when it launched inwards 2011.

It's non every bit good surprising Hangouts on Air are no longer an option, every bit the platform hadn't been updated inwards years, as well as used now-gone Google+-based apps for some functionality. But still, YouTube's webcam alive streaming isn't the same. 

Mobile alive streaming also got a fleck to a greater extent than difficult. YouTube has limited mobile alive streaming to channels amongst at to the lowest degree M subscribers and shut downwards the YouTube Gaming app.

But on the addition side, whatsoever  Super Stickers. Fans tin buy Super Stickers to postal service during alive broadcast or Premier alive chats.  

Demise of YouTube DMs 

It's odd to study that Google has unopen downwards one of their messaging platforms, but that's the representative for YouTube. The YouTube Direct Messaging system was removed inwards September.

While YouTube has changed their individual messaging several times over the years, replacing Inbox with Google+-based Messages inwards 2014, which were as well as then replaced past times the novel DMs in 2018, at that topographic point has e'er been some way to privately communicate.

Now YouTube doesn't offering whatsoever way to privately message a channel.

Why this change? YouTube is going to focus on "improving populace communications".

YouTube Policy Updates

There is no way but about the fact that sometimes YouTube tin live an unpleasant place. Over the years channels have got built viewership past times posting hateful pranks, loathe speech, harassment as well as bullying other creators, as well as posting misinformation.

One of YouTube's goals for 2019 was to piece of work on the "Four Rs of Responsibility": Removing harmful content; Raising authoritative content; Rewarding trusted, eligible creators as well as artists; and Reducing borderline content as well as harmful misinformation 

There have got been a issue of updates towards those goals:

• Increased policy enforcement but about unsafe pranks
• Reducing recommendations for content that could "misinform inwards harmful ways"
• Updates to the loathe speech communication policy to encompass supremacist content, Sandy Hook denialism as well as more
• Building a toolkit to counter fierce extremism. 
• Stronger rules against harassment as well as cyberbullying, including "malicious insults" based on "intrinsic attributes" as well as implied threats. 

YouTube also increased enforcement of  their policy prohibiting"fake engagement" by removing links promoting services that artificially inflate subscriber count, views or other engagement metrics. That includes purchased views or comments, or "Sub4Sub" services. Videos that promote those services may live removed, as well as final result inwards a Community Guidelines strike.

There has been some backlash against the changes, especially the broader anti-harassment policy, every bit some channels have got had multiple videos taken down.

On the flip side, YouTube has softened their policy against video game violence, treating it now similar other scripted violence.

YouTube revised the Community Guidelines Strike organisation at the commencement of the year, amongst the initiative off violation resulting inwards a warning, as well as progressively larger penalties amongst subsequent violations. Three strikes inside xc days, as well as you're out.

That agency policy changes should non final result inwards a channel beingness at nowadays penalized for content that was previously allowed (as long every bit it doesn't already have got a warning).

Whether the policy updates construct YouTube a nicer identify to hang out remains to live seen.

Image: Best practices for creators

New tools for managing copyright claims

This twelvemonth YouTube introduced several tools to become far easier for creators to bargain amongst copyright claims.

• Copyright holders tin no longer monetize manually claimed videos amongst unintentional job of music
• It's easier for Creators to resolve manual Content ID claims, because YouTube at nowadays shows timestamps of the manually claimed content. If a copyright holder claimed fifteen seconds of your 10 infinitesimal video, yous tin at nowadays easily notice that segment.
• To resolve a copyright claim on music, yous tin mute the claimed audio or replace the song. Or yous can use the novel Assisted Trim editing tool to chop out but the claimed content, which releases the claim.
• You tin at nowadays see copyright bang information on your YouTube Studio dashboard. 
• You tin filter your video listing inwards YouTube Studio to notice your videos amongst copyright strikes or Content ID claims.

While it's best to non job copyrighted content without permission, hence yous don't acquire a claim, these changes at to the lowest degree construct claims easier to resolve.

New ways to earn money

For channels inwards the YouTube Partner Program, at that topographic point are at nowadays novel ways to earn money, inwards improver to ads:

• For channels amongst Memberships enabled, yous tin now set Membership levels amongst customized perks, as well as produce exclusive member-only content. Non-gaming channels inwards the YouTube Partner Program amongst at to the lowest degree 30,000 subscribers tin enable Memberships.
• New Merch partners: Crowdmade, DFTBA, Fanjoy, Represent, Rooster Teeth. Channels amongst at to the lowest degree 10,000 subscribers as well as monetization enabled can add a Merch Shelf to their channel.
• Super Chat is at nowadays available inwards threescore to a greater extent than countries. Super Chat lets fans buy alive chat messages during alive broadcasts as well as Premieres.
• There are construct new Super Stickers that fans tin pay to postal service during alive chats. Super Stickers requires Super Chat to live enabled.

Other novel channel as well as creator features

There were also a issue of other creator updates that don't check neatly into other categories. The changes that caused the most commotion: rounding off publicly displayed subscriber counts, as well as new stricter verification cheque score eligibility requirements (which were to a greater extent than oftentimes than non reversed).

These are the top updates inwards roughly chronological order:

• The pick to automatically portion to Twitter as well as Google+ was removed.
• The last Google+ features were removed. That surprisingly also removed the mightiness to add together a channel icon as well as encompass fine art inwards the YouTube mobile app.
• The "Related Channels" listing was removed from channel pages. You tin nevertheless add together featured channels past times customizing your channel layout.
• YouTube started automatically asset potentially inappropriate comments for review. They study that subsequently this was enabled, channels saw a 75% decrease inwards the issue of comments flagged past times viewers. You tin disable this characteristic inwards your channel's comment settings.
• New specially formatted Learning Playlists launched for a little issue of educational channels, including including Khan Academy, TED-Ed, The Coding Train and Crash Course.
• Channels started displaying abbreviated subscriber counts, rounded off to 3 digits. If yous have got 10,427,356 subscribers, that displays every bit 10.4M. You tin nevertheless come across your ain channels total subscribers inwards YouTube Studio.
• Community contributions of subtitles as well as translations no longer automatically published due to "spam as well as abuse"
• Checkmark badge eligibility requirements, were tightened upward - pregnant many channels (like mine) would lose their badge. They mostly backtracked those changes. The alone departure at nowadays is a review when a channel reaches 100,000 subscribers. Channels that already have got the badge won't lose it.
•  A novel hub for fashion as well as beauty content - YouTube.com/Fashion - launches 
• There are new "Watch Later" video stickers for Stories. You tin alone job the sticker in ane lawsuit a calendar week to portion your ain videos. Stories are available to channels amongst at to the lowest degree 10,000 subscribers.
• More easily grapple your playlists. Sort playlists, invite collaborators or portion playlists amongst a few clicks.
• @mention other channels inwards video titles or descriptions. You involve to have got at to the lowest degree M subscribers to give or have mentions.

Limited features on videos aimed at kids

One of the large changes inwards 2020 volition live the limited features on videos "made for kids", which YouTube is required to construct to comply amongst COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act).

Videos that were "made for kids" volition non have got personal advertising (but it tin have got non-personalized ads), comments, a channel branding watermark, information cards or terminate screens, alive chat or alive chat donations, playback inwards the miniplayer, or a merch shelf.

If an entire channel is "made for kids" it volition non have got channel Memberships, Stories, a Community tab or Notification bell.

Understandably, channels that construct content for kids are concerned. And other creators aren't certain whether their videos are "made for kids" or not.

Those changes volition become into final result this coming week, as well as hopefully it won't live every bit disastrous every bit some fear.

But at that topographic point have got been a issue of changes over the past times twelvemonth meant to protect kids on YouTube.

• February: YouTube disables comments on millions of videos featuring kids; recommends asset comments for moderation
• April: 
• June: YouTube outlines its policies to protect kids: younger minors are non allowed to alive current unless clearly accompanied past times an adult, requiring some users to confirm they are one-time plenty to job the platform, as well as reducing recommendations of videos featuring kids inwards "risky situations"
• August: YouTube began removing "mature" content targeting children
• September: YouTube announced their short town amongst the FTC,that they would care for all "children's content" every bit if kids are watching
• November: YouTube requires channels to betoken whether content is made for kids to comply amongst COPPA
• December: YouTube's comment on COPPA to the FTC

Image past times Prawny from Pixabay

Previously 

• Year inwards Review 2014: YouTube as well as Google+ closer than ever
• Year inwards Review 2015: YouTube
• Year inwards Review 2016: YouTube Creator updates - community, creativity, communication
• Year inwards Review 2017: YouTube Creators, Partners as well as Live Streamers
• Year inwards Review 2018: YouTube Partner Program tougher eligibility, novel features for all Creators

2019 Year inwards Review

• 2019 Year inwards Review: Google Products nosotros said farewell to
• 2019 Year inwards Review: New Google tools for Creators
• 2019 Year inwards Review: Goodbye Google+
• 2019 Year inwards Review: YouTube Studio, Policy, as well as Live Streaming 
• 2019 Year inwards Review: Blogger Gets Mobile
• 2019 Year inwards Review: AdSense Account as well as Ad Updates
• 2019 Year inwards Review: Messaging is less messy (and Hangouts is nevertheless here)

Transform Photos Into Plant Of Fine Art Amongst The Google Arts & Civilization App

The Google Arts & Culture app has a novel Art Transfer tool that lets you lot add together the mode of famous plant of fine art to your photos. And the app lets you lot explore fine art from roughly the footing upward unopen on your phone. 

You tin pick out from recent images on your phone, or from other apps similar Google Drive, Google Photos, or Dropbox to exercise a novel "masterpiece". You tin as well as hence download or portion the results to social media.  

It's non every bit "smart" every bit apps similar Prisma, as well as the images are depression resolution, simply it's fun to play with. 

The Arts & Culture app offers other toys every bit good that lets you lot explore fine art from roughly the footing at home:

• Art Selfie lets you lot detect portraits that await similar you
• Color Palette helps you lot detect fine art using the colors of your photo
• Art Projector uses augmented reality to display fine art masterpieces total sized inward your room
• Pocket Gallery uses AR to allow you lot walk through galleries as well as stance fine art upward close
• Tours inward Google Street View to "walk around" 
• Artwork inward high Definition so you lot tin zoom inward close
• Art collections from museums roughly the world

Plus the app offers daily art-related activities. 

Read on for instructions on how to purpose the Art Transfer tool inward the Google Arts & Culture app.

How to Transform a Photo into Art Using the Google Arts & Culture App

1. Install the Google Arts & Culture app for Android or iOS.

2. Open the app, as well as tap the photographic tv set camera icon at the bottom of the screen

You volition take away to compass the app permission to access your phone's camera. 

3. From the carte pick out Art Transfer

Note this turns on your phone's camera. The background inward the screenshot is the stance out my window. 

4. Select an picture to transform. 

You tin either accept a photograph or pick out an picture from your device. 

Tap the circle icon at lower left to switch betwixt taking a selfie as well as taking a photograph from your phone's dorsum camera. 

Tap the picture icon at lower correct to pick out a photograph from your telephone or some other app similar Google Photos or Dropbox.

5. Select a run of fine art to apply from the thumbnails at the bottom of the screen

Some plant of fine art run meliorate than others, hence experiment.

6. To apply the artwork to exclusively a component division of your photo, tap the circle-and-scissors icon at move past times right.

7. Use your finger to outline the business office of the picture you lot desire to apply the fine art to. 

And meet the results:

8. Switch the applied surface area from the selected component division to the non-selected portion.

Tap the icon that looks similar a droplet to switch. 

9. To undo, tap the left arrow. 

10. To relieve or portion the image, tap the Share button

Once you lot are happy amongst the agency your photograph looks you lot tin download or portion the image. 

11. Select Still or GIF image

Select a Still for the lastly image, or GIF for an animation betwixt your original as well as modified version

12. Tap Save to download to your device or Share to portion past times email, on social media or via some other app. 

Try it, as well as larn creative!

Not my best photo, simply it does brand my dwelling await a fleck to a greater extent than interesting!