What is happening with year-in-review and New Year Eve right now?
Late 2026 is the season when people post a look back at the year and a clip for the turn of the year. Escutai, checked on 13 November 2026, says Spotify has not confirmed the date of Wrapped 2026. Since 2019 the recap has landed between the end of November and the first week of December, almost always on a Wednesday. The site lists the earlier dates (1 December 2021, 30 November 2022, 29 November 2023, 4 December 2024 and 3 December 2025) and treats 25 November or 2 December 2026 as the most likely Wednesdays. That is a reading of the old calendar, not a Spotify announcement. The same article says the platform usually confirms on the day itself, with the app already updated. The cards show artists, songs and minutes, ready to share. Listening counted for the recap starts on 1 January and stops sometime in November, so December stays out.
That release and the turn of the year fall in the same window. From now until the turn of the year, profiles and shops will post a year card, a greeting and a short clip. A generated video does not replace the official card inside a music app. It sits beside it, as an opener, a thank-you or a countdown.
What does that mean for people making video in Brazil?
For someone producing in Brazil, the short-clip model that fits this job is Gemini Omni Flash in Google Flow. The Google blog, on 5 November 2026, describes Omni Flash 1.2 with native clips of up to 15 seconds, up from 10 seconds on version 1.1, and with a length you set in steps of 1 second from 3 to 15. The same post describes conversational edits across the whole clip: change the background, the light or the aspect ratio without starting over, and references that hold a face, a garment and packaging more steadily from shot to shot. It also describes more natural speech and clearer lip-sync. The price of US$ 0.07 per second at 720p, 30% below Omni 1.1, is a dollar price that the blog links to Gemini API pricing. It is not the Flow credit table.
A year-in-review becomes a sequence, not one clip: one shot per milestone, then a New Year greeting of up to 15 seconds in 9:16. Conversational editing is how you fix the same take (another sky, another frame) instead of throwing the scene away. The blog says the output carries an imperceptible SynthID watermark. This page does not promise that every voice option or every region option is open on an account in Brazil.
The Flow credits help page puts another date in the middle of this season. On 5 December 2026 Veo 3.1 Fast, Veo 3.1 Quality and Omni Flash 1.1 are retired. Anyone publishing the recap after that date works in Omni Flash 1.2 or Veo 3.1 Lite. On 5 November 2026 Veo Extend had already been retired: extending a clip needs a Google AI Plus, Pro or Ultra plan and Omni Flash 1.2. The rates of the models that leave are in the Omni Flash 1.2 credits guide.
How many credits does a year-end clip spend?
Google publishes rates, not a ready-made total for a year-in-review. The totals below are arithmetic from the Flow help table. Rates can change: the help page says to check Settings on the prompt box before you generate. The cost is per generation, not per request, and one request can produce more than one generation. Editing an Omni Flash 1.2 clip uses the same per-second rate as a new clip of that length. Seconds 11 to 15 cost double the base rate, and only Plus, Pro or Ultra can use that extra length.
| Work | Who can use it | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Omni Flash 1.2, 8 seconds, 720p (one beat of the recap) | Every account | 24 (8 × 3 per second) |
| Omni Flash 1.2, 15 seconds, 720p (a New Year greeting) | Plus, Pro or Ultra | 60 (10 × 3, then 5 × 6) |
| Edit that 15-second clip at 720p | Plus, Pro or Ultra | 60 more, same rate |
| Omni Flash 1.2, 8-second draft at 360p | Every account | 8 (8 × 1 per second) |
| Upscale the 15-second clip to 1080p | Plus, Pro or Ultra | 5 (0 for the first 10 seconds, then 1 per extra second) |
| Extend by 8 more seconds at 720p | Plus, Pro or Ultra | 24 (8 × 3 per second added) |
A recap of several shots spends the pool several times. An 8-second 720p beat costs 24 credits, and doing that beat again costs another 24. A 15-second 720p greeting costs 60, and a correction at that length costs 60 more. That is why a pool the shop refills helps during a short week of versions. A refill is not a free generation: each generation and each edit still follows the table. The full table, including 4K, is in the credits guide.
Which Veo 3 · Unlimited Credit plan fits this work?
ChugAx is an independent shop in Vietnam. It sells access to Google AI Ultra 20x plans. Unlimited Credit means the shop refills the Family Flow pool with no cap on the number of refills. It does not mean a video costs zero credits. Omni Flash still spends credits on every generation and every edit.
| Plan | Who shares the pool | Price for the month |
|---|---|---|
| Veo 3 · Unlimited Credit · 1 member | The shop manages the Family. Up to 5 customers in that group share one pool. | 8,000,000 VND (about US$ 310.1, about R$ 1.538,46) |
| Full Family · Unlimited Credit | You manage the Family. You and 4 people you invite share the pool. | 40,000,000 VND (about US$ 1,550.4, about R$ 7.692,31) |
If you work alone and can accept a pool shared with other customers, the 1-member plan is the smaller bill. A heavy recap week can empty that shared pool, and the next refill waits 2 to 3 hours. If the credits need to stay with the people you invite, for example a small team closing several clients in the same week, choose Full Family. Ask the bot about the support tool that helps you use a shared pool. If the 1-member plan stops during the month, the shop restores access or arranges a replacement account; if it cannot, it refunds the unused time. On Full Family the shop restores the plan when the problem comes from its own account; if it cannot, it refunds the unused time. Problems with your own Gmail are not covered. The three Full Family exclusions are in the warranty guide.
How do you order from Brazil?
Orders go through the Telegram bot @chugax_gl_bot. The website does not take payment. There is no Pix key: Pix only moves money inside Brazil.
- Tell the bot which plan you want. It checks that your Gmail is eligible and states the amount.
- Pay only after that confirmation. Buy USDT with Pix and send it on the network the bot names (TRC20 or BEP20), or add reais to Wise with Pix and send VND to the MB Bank account the bot gives.
- The shop activates the plan 1 to 3 days after it has the details and confirms payment. That wait is for a new order, not for a later refill.
Prices are set in VND for the whole term. Reais on this page use 5,200 VND per real and are a reference only. The amount you pay is the one the bot confirms. A request sent on 30 December can miss the midnight post, because activation is not instant. The steps in more detail are in paying from Brazil. Never send a password, an OTP or a recovery code.
Which limits still apply?
Refills run from 10:00 to 21:00 Vietnam time (GMT+7), which is 0:00 to 11:00 in Brasília, with 2 to 3 hours between refills. Message the bot when the pool hits zero. After 11:00 in Brasília the refill waits until support opens again, at midnight Brasília time. This is not an instant, 24-hour service.
- Google and Flow limits still sit on top of the credit count. The help page says the rates can change at any time.
- A clip of 15 seconds, an extension and an upscale to 1080p need a paid Google AI plan. 4K upscale, on the same help page, is listed for Ultra only.
- This page does not claim that every Omni feature or voice option is open on an account in Brazil.
- The 30% figure on the Google blog is the API price in dollars, not a discount on Flow credits.
- Until 5 December the older models still run. Finish a series on the model it started on, or start the new one on Omni Flash 1.2 or Veo 3.1 Lite, instead of mixing them in the middle of a sequence.