In this episode of The Creator Feed, we've got some exciting updates for you in our special end of summer double episode! First up, YouTube is rolling out a new educational training course to help creators understand Community Guidelines warnings, and we think it sounds just like traffic school! Learn how not to get your YouTube license taken away.

Also this week: TikTok is rumored to shortly ban all external shopping links, potentially affecting creators and raising anti-trust concerns. A new nonprofit organization, the Creators Guild of America, aims to support creators without collective bargaining. Renee and Jim analyze 4 creator economy challenges laid out by top VC Andrew Chen and then talk through his potential upside for venture-based companies in our space.

Plus, Rhett and Link's Mythical Creator Accelerator invests in The Sorry Girls and the curious case of the missing bylines. Tune in for all these juicy stories and more!

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• YouTube's New Policy: 3 Strikes and You're Out! Find Out What Could Get Your Channel Wiped Clean!

• Watch Creator Insider Talk about the Changes

• YouTube Community Guidelines & Policies

• An update to Community Guidelines warnings

• TikTok's Could Ban External Shopping Links: Is This the End of Affiliate Marketing for Creators?

• TikTok will sunset its Shopify storefronts in September - Tubefilter

• Introducing the Creators Guild of America: The New Support System for Creators You Need to Know About!

• Creators Guild of America

• VC Andrew Chen Reveals the Dark Side of Startups in the Creator Economy.

• Creator Economy 2.0: What we've learned, why it's hard, and what's next | andrewchen

• Rhett and Link's Mythical Creator Accelerator Makes Investment in The Sorry Girls - Get the Inside Scoop!

• Rhett and Link's $5 million creator fund backs The Sorry Girls with "biggest investment to date" - Tubefilter

• YouTube Drops Bylines on Blog Posts - What's Really Going On?

• An Archive.Org copy of a blog post with byline

• An artist-centric approach to AI innovation (blog post today)