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The end of 2025 is drawing close, which means it’s time to look back at your year. YouTube launched its first viewer recap (and it’s pretty cute), and you can get recaps of your Photos, activity on Twitch and more. The other big news this week is that Australian under-16s are being removed from major social platforms under a new law. Plus there are updates for YouTube, TikTok, Substack, Search Console and more. 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email. Top news and updates this week Get your 2025 recap from YouTube , Google Photos , Twitch , Discord , Spotify  and more. Australia's Social Media Minimum Age Act, banning under-16s from Facebook , Instagram , YouTube , Twitch , Reddit , X , Snapchat , and Kick , goes into effect December 10th. YouTube says they will restore teens’ channels when they turn 16. YouTube is launching video title A/B testing. YouTube lets you limit comments to subscribers and paid members. YouTube videos are getting Expressive Captions (in Englis...

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 December 5, 2015. Ten years ago Google introduced a new option in Search to save images to your account.  Watch the Short version. Save Your Found Images Saving images in Google Search, 2015 In December 2015, Google added the ability to save and organize images from search. This was a new feature on mobile devices that let you star and bookmark images in the Google Search results, and organize them into folders. It started out only available on the mobile web in the US. A few months later it was expanded to Google Search on desktop. Save Anything from Search in a Collection  My Dublin 2025 Collection, created as a list in Google Maps.  Google has expanded Collections so that you not only can save images, but also save links and places.   You can s...

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...