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CREATING CONTENT IN DUBAI? YOU'LL SOON NEED A PERMIT - The UAE will require content creators to have a permit for sharing "promotional content" on social media. This includes any collabs or partnerships, whether paid or gifted. There's both a residents permit (valid for 1 year) and a visitor permit (valid for 3 months).

🔗 Read the full article​

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DJI LAUNCH THEIR INSTA360 KILLER - DJI just announced their new OSMO 360, the much anticipated rival to the creator-favourite Insta360 camera. It can shoot up to 8k footage and up to 100fps. It's waterproof and works with all existing OSMO action cam accessories.

🔗 See the full product specs and pricing​

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UK CREATORS DEMAND GOVERNMENT RECOGNITION - More than 10,000 content creators in the UK have petitioned for formal recognition to make things like mortgage applications fairer. Max Klymenko (10m subs) says that "viewership is similar to big media, but we don’t get the same treatment".

🔗 Read the full article​

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NEW TOOL CHARGES AI FOR ACCESSING YOUR BLOG - Cloudflare announced a new pay-per-crawl tool, marketed as a way for creators to charge AI bots for accessing blog content.

My Take: This could be great for sites with constant fresh information, but I'm not convinced it will be that helpful for evergreen blog content. Still, innovations like this are very welcome.

🔗 Read the full announcement​

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PUBLISHERS UNITE TO DISCUSS AN END TO AI CONTENT THEFT - On a similar theme, 80 execs representing web publishers (including Mediavine) gathered to discuss ways to stop AI companies profiting from their content without credit or compensation.

My Take: These proposals look more promising, including the idea of paying publishers every time AI uses their content in an answer. Google attended the event, which is a good sign, though OpenAI didn't.

🔗 Read the full article here​

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YOUTUBE INTRODUCES A/B TESTING OF TITLES - While thumbnail A/B testing has been available for over a year, creators can now provide three title variations for testing too.

🔗 Read the full article here​

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YOUTUBE & FACEBOOK ANNOUNCE CONTENT CRACKDOWNS - YT announced that AI-generated videos will be ineligible for monetisation, while Meta said they're doing more to remove accounts sharing "unoriginal" (aka stolen) content on Facebook.

🔗 Read the full article here​

OTHER NEWS:

🔗 Time Magazine announced it's first TIME100 Creators list​

🔗 Google's June Core Update appears to have been positive for blogs

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HOOKS TO HELP YOUR TRAVEL CONTENT GO VIRAL - Millie shares 8 common 'flop' hooks used by travel creators and some alternative tried and tested 'viral' hooks that have earned millions of views.

🔗 Get the hooks here​

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HOW TO SUCCEED WITH EVERGREEN CONTENT ON FLIPBOARD - Freshness is really important on Flipboard, but in this guide, Jeanette and Terri share how they're using SEO plugins to hack the system and generate more views for evergreen content.

🔗 Read the full guide​

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7 TRAVEL ACCOUNTS CRUSHING TIKTOK SLIDESHOWS - Slideshows are TikTok's answer to Instagram's carousels. In this video, the Genviral team share 7 examples of viral slideshows from accounts in the travel niche.

🔗 Watch the full video​

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I'M A TRAVEL BLOGGER AND I'M MAD AT EVERYTHING - In a very relatable rant, Marek (Indie Traveller) shares his frustrations with Google's AI Overviews stealing his content and how he's planning to adapt his business.

🔗 Read the full article here​

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AN OPEN LETTER TO THE GOOGLE EXECUTIVES WHO KILLED MY BUSINESS - In this post, Mike Hardaker (Mountain News Weekly) says that he feels gaslit by Google after their Creator Summit. The post was originally on LinkedIn, but I'm sharing a related Reddit thread as the comments are worth a read.

🔗 Read the full thread here​

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THE (HONEST) STATE OF TRAVEL & POINTS BLOGGING - Ben (One Mile at a Time) shared a very personal post about the changes in the travel & points blogging space and how it's impacted him and his business. He covers the growth of short-form content and the challenges of algorithm updates and AI.

🔗 Read the full article here​

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2nd-4th September - ITB India, Mumbai​

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9-12th September - TBEX Europe, Ireland​

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17-18th September - World Travel Expo, Miami​

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27-30th September - FIT, Buenos Aires​

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1st-10th October - TBEX Summit of America, Wichita (Kansas)​

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13-16th October - Adventure Travel World Summit, Chile​

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13-14th October - Travmedia IMM Asia, Singapore​

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15-17th October - ITB Asia, Singapore​

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22nd-23rd October - Manychat Instagram Summit (virtual) - 📢 currently only $29 for an early-bird ticket!

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