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Dear readers, I’m thankful for you! This Thanksgiving week I want to say how appreciative I am to my subscribers, readers, and live stream viewers. That keeps me going. This week there are updates for YouTube, Instagram, Patreon, Twitch and lots more. Read on! 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email. Top news and updates this week New YouTube Community features including pin a post, heart viewer posts, shareable Community links and desktop access. New YouTube Shorts AI tools using the Veo 3 model with sound effects and speech and Dream Track lyrics and vocals. Patreon will host your podcast RSS feed for free, and has new plays metrics, gifts memberships for paid members, chat replay for livestream recordings, improved Post composition and more. YouTube is experimenting with letting you customize your own feed recommendations. YouTube is expanding access to checks for Community Guidelines violations before publication. YouTube live chat and Memberships will show handles, r...

To celebrate 10 years of Creator Weekly, I’m sharing  tech highlights from 2015  that still resonate 10 years later. This update was for the  week of November 28, 2015. Ten years ago Microsoft launched a project to help bring the internet to underserved parts of the world. Facebook and Google had their own projects meant to bring the internet to billions of new users. Watch the Short version. Bringing Internet Access to the World Microsoft Affordable Access Initiative home page, 2015 One of the big tech pushes in 2015 was bringing the internet connectivity and web services to new markets.  10 years ago this week Microsoft launched the Affordable Access Initiative, a grant program that invested in infrastructure to bring the Internet to the 4 billion people who didn’t have access. This followed Google and Facebook projects to bring the internet to more users. This would expand on projects launched in the US, Kenya and Philippines...

Happy weekend dear readers! This week there are updates from YouTube, Google Vids, TikTok, Twitch, Facebook, Bluesky and Google Search Console. Google Gemini 3 and Nano Banana Pro are out, there are updated productivity tools and more. 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email. Top news and updates this week Facebook Content Protection helps creators find unauthorized copies of their Reels and block them. Everyone can now use Gemini -powered tools in Google Vids for free, including generating voiceovers, transcript trimming and image editing. Generating video clips requires a paid account. Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) is now available, with better image consistency, detailed editing controls, and the ability to generate infographics. Use it in Google Slides , Vids , NotebookLM , and the Gemini app (some require Google Workspace or AI subscription). YouTube is testing DMs for video sharing. It’s currently available in Ireland and Poland. YouTube Shopping has improved...

To celebrate 10 years of Creator Weekly, I’m sharing  tech highlights from 2015  that still resonate 10 years later. This update was for the  week of November 21, 2015. Ten years ago this week the YouTube Music app launched. Watch the Short version. Streaming Music with YouTube's Video Catalog YouTube Music app in the Google Play Store in 2015 . The app screenshot shows "Stations created for you" with "endless personalized music. The new YouTube Music app was (and still is) the entrance to the huge music catalog on YouTube. It would recommend tracks for you to listen to, and create personalized "stations" of streaming music.  In 2015 YouTube was promoting itself as a music platform,  even running their first (and only) music awards show  honoring "the biggest and emerging artists to watch." (There had been one previous music awards show focused on fan favorites in 2013, which  didn't go well .) ...

This week there are updates from Patreon, Beehiiv, Buffer, Facebook, YouTube and more. 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email.. Top news and updates this week Beehiiv is expanding beyond newsletters, creating a single platform for creators to create a website, sell digital products, add podcast pages, and lets you create a free link-in-bio landing page. Patreon adds discovery features based on user interests. Buffer now lets you view and respond to social comments from Instagram , Facebook , Threads , Bluesky , X and LinkedIn . (Follow 3 platforms with a free account) Facebook will discontinue the Like and Comment plugins for third party websites in January. diVine is a new Vine -like platform with 100,000 of the original Vine videos and support from former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. Viewers can now share their YouTube Hype as a public post. YouTube has new filters for channel pages, letting you see only Members-only or only Public videos. YouTube explained channel...