Shocking Updates Influencers and Creators Must Know Now

This quarter brings some of the biggest changes and Updates that Influencers and Creators must know!
Great news for Amazon Associates! Having an Amazon storefront used to be a big difference between Amazon Associates and Influencers, but not anymore. Amazon Associates can now have access to storefronts.

#lowesfinds #shopwithyoutube

00:00 Here to support Creators
00:59 Make YouTube Thumbnails with ChatGPT
05:24 Ecamm Live is now Ecamm
10:03 Amazon Associates Storefronts News
16:20 Amazon integrations with Facebook and Pinterest
36:30 Target closes Creator Program

Subscribe on Substack https://substack.com/@ileanesmith

Ladies and gentlemen, oh, I got an error code. So, sorry about that.

I'm getting ready to go live. That's what I just said. And now I'm live.

There's so many choices that we all have now of where we can go live, where we can put our content. And I just am glad that we have all these opportunities. And um so the first one that I want to start off with is believe it or not was chat GPT. I just want to make a little share a little something something on chat GPT. But hang on, let me get my ducks in a row.

Oh.

Oh, okay. We're good. Yeah, I'm starting to make YouTube thumbnails inside of ChatGpt. They have this image 2.0 situation going on here now. And I made today's thumbnail in chat GPT. And I'll give you I'll share the little prompt that someone else shared with me. So, in order for me to do that, let me come back on screen and I will grab my little notes. It's a simple prompt. And of course, you can tweak this, but if you just want to start first, you just upload you you go to chat GPT and then you're going to click on image, right? And then you'll upload your image or whatever photo you want to have as like the basis of the thumbnail. That's the way I usually do it. I usually like to have at least um have my image on the thumbnail. And if I'm talking about a product or something like that, then you know I would have that image, you know, instead or as well. Anyway, so it's just generate a YouTube thumbnail for me for generate a YouTube thumbnail for me for video about whatever the video is about. And then you have to say 16 by9 aspect ratio. 16 dot dot n aspect ratio. So if you don't for some reason it'll give you a square or something. But and if you want a square depend upon what you're going to create the image for just tell it to be square. And if you're making something for a Instagram story or a YouTube short and you just want to have that image there that you can make part of your video so it could be sort of a thumbnail, then you would say 9 by6 aspect ratio. So, so there you have it. So I see someone's here. So hey, thank you so much for joining. And um yeah, just double checking that all systems are go. Okay, great.

So that's just one little piece of news. I'm not a huge user of chat GPT. I got to be honest with you. But when I saw that, I thought, well, why not? Why not give it a try? I can update some of my old thumbnails to see if I can get a little more juice out of the squeeze because I'm not the greatest when it comes to making thumbnails. Oh, and the other update is

if I move my head a certain way, you can't see. See that E on that mug right there? That's my friends at eCam. They have now changed their branding. They kind of updated it. Instead of calling it ecam live, which this is being powered by, by the way, let me put it up on screen in case that's my affiliate link in case you want to check it out. uh instead of ecam live. I mean for years we always like shorten it and call it ecam anyway. So they're just going with ecam now. And I love that. I love that I'm actually using it right now. And that's how I'm able to do a lot of the things that I'm doing even though some of it seems like I don't know what I'm doing. But thank you to the folks at ECAMM. And so I got a couple of mugs. The little one and the bigger one actually is not a mug. It's a thermal. And shout out to Katie over at ECAMM for hooking me up. Thank you, my love. Okay, so that's another one of the updates. So already we've gone through two updates. The thumbnail update and the eCam. Oh, and the reason why they shortened it from eCam Live is because eCamm is kind of an allpurpose uh recording studio. You don't have to go live on eCamm if you just want to re use ecamm to record your videos. And I've done it many, many times. Uh, you can, in fact, t