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Connecting a social account for campaign matching now reliably shows whether it actually succeeded, instead of a rare silent failure looking the same as success. Facebook is also now available to connect alongside the other platforms.
Creators can trust what the connection status on their profile is telling them.
A short-lived network hiccup while the app was loading could look like your session had expired and send you straight to the sign-in screen, even though you were still logged in. A brief outage is now treated as temporary, not as being logged out.
Fewer sign-in prompts caused by nothing more than a passing connection issue.
Uploading a campaign image or video file directly - not a pasted link - could be rejected with a supported-platform error, and the upload disappeared if you refreshed the page. Direct file uploads now save correctly.
Advertisers no longer risk losing a freshly uploaded asset to a page refresh.
Several email and notification buttons - for security settings, billing, wallet transfers, and more - pointed at old or missing pages and led to a dead end. Links across these emails and notifications now go to the right, live page.
Clicking a link in an email or notification now reliably takes you where it says it will.
When you create clips, they arrive in the frame you chose - phone, 4:5 feed, captions, follow-the-speaker - on the same project you imported. Change look on a clip if you want a different crop or caption style. Finding clips no longer drops a second untitled copy next to your video.
You wait once and see post-ready clips, not a 16:9 leftover that ignores your settings.
Creators can buy AI minutes from Studio. Your membership minutes and purchased credits show as two balances. The free trial pack can be claimed once, then it leaves the list.
You can see what you still have, top up without resetting plan usage, and you are not offered the same trial twice.
The public Clip Studio page now reflects the full studio - link import, brand kit, captions, and exports - with a trial-pack CTA and clearer positioning for advertisers, agencies, and creators.
Makes it obvious that Clip Studio is a standalone AI editor on the platform, not only a creator tool.
Integrators can subscribe when a creator is credited, when earnings clear, and when a withdrawal starts or finishes. One URL can listen for several events at once.
Agencies and tools can react to money movement without checking the dashboard over and over.
The level badge and progress page list every requirement - campaigns, earnings, trust, identity, and a clean account - not only how many campaigns you have finished.
You can see why you have not leveled up yet, instead of a bar that looks complete while other checks are still open.
Plan usage now shows what your membership includes this period, and the upgrade page is a clearer storefront for paid plans and early access.
Easier to know what you have left and what you get if you move up a plan.
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UGC has been in the works since late 2025 and live at ugc.africa since January 2026. This is the earliest change we have a dated public record for, and every update since May 17, 2026 is logged here in the open.
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