YouTube
A music claim? Check Studio’s new replacement tool.
YouTube announced wider availability of generated background music inside Replace song on November 3. Replacing all claimed audio can resolve the associated Content ID claim.
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Make your commentary the reason to watch.
YouTube announced an October 1 change prioritizing original Shorts and reducing distribution of reuploads that add little meaningful value.
Build a photo-and-video carousel in Edits.
Meta’s October announcement introduced carousels combining photos, video and text in Edits, with sharing to Instagram.
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Give an ongoing Shorts story a season and order.
Shorts series organize episodes into seasons. Viewers can use View series in the feed to continue through the story.
Other
See when visual searches bring people to your site.
Google announced a multimodal search filter on September 24 for searches involving Lens, Circle to Search and uploaded images.
Other
Find the Google searches that lead to your social content.
Google’s July 29 announcement describes worldwide platform properties for Instagram, TikTok, X and YouTube.
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Connect your Short to the full video.
A related video creates a clickable link below your channel handle in the Shorts player.
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Start with an accurate title and thumbnail, not more tags.
YouTube describes video tags as playing a minimal role, mainly helping with common misspellings.
Threads
Organize your profile links, then check visits.
Threads supports up to five profile links and reporting on visits to links in profiles and posts.
Build Reels around content you actually made.
Meta’s 2024 announcement described recommending an original instead of an identical repost in recommendation surfaces.