Peggy K's Creator News

This week’s creator news recap is extra long, since there was no edition last week. Why? I was at the Google Product Expert Summit in Dublin, Ireland ☘. It was a week of seeing old friends, learning new information and visiting the friendly, historic city. I’ll talk about it a bit more in this week’s live stream . This week also marks the 10th anniversary of uploading content to my YouTube channel . I actually created the channel in 2013, then didn’t upload videos for a couple of years. And for most of that time my activity has been sporadic. It’s just the last couple of years I’ve been regularly active. I was hoping to reach 10,000 subscribers for some nice synergy, but I didn’t quite make it. I’m planning for the next 10 years to be a bit more focused. 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email. Top news and updates this week Secure your Google Account with Recovery Contacts and your mobile phone number. Second chances for YouTube terminated channels Expansion ...

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 October 10, 2015. 10 years ago this week Google launched the Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project, meant to replace the slow mobile web pages in mobile Search results. "Beautiful" articles on mobile devices AMP-formatted articles in the Top Stories carousel in mobile Google Search results. ( Source ) In 2015 people were increasingly consuming  news  and  other content  on their mobile devices. But the  mobile web "sucked"  (to put it bluntly), and it was a nicer user experience to use a dedicated publisher or social media app.    Google's response was the AMP Project . AMP was “an initiative to improve the mobile web and enhance the distribution ecosystem”, with a format that would be...

Lots of updates this week, for YouTube, for Meta Threads and Facebook, Twitch, and more. Plus a new social AI video sharing app from OpenAI that’s all about deepfakes of yourself and friends. Note that next week there will not be a newsletter or live stream because I will be attending the Google Product Expert Summit in Dublin, Ireland . I’ll share more about it when I get back! 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email. Top news and updates this week New generative AI tools and templates in YouTube Effect Maker YouTube BrandConnect Open Call is a pilot program for U.S. Partners to more easily get started with Brand sponsorships. Extend with AI is a new Remix option for YouTube Shorts. YouTube reorganized the Channel Moderation settings in YouTube Studio. Monetizing YouTubers who vertical live stream can now set Gift goals. YouTube is updating its Medical Misinformation policy to prohibit false claims about tobacco and nicotine. YouTube is piloting two auto-dubbing update...

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 October 3, 2015. Ten years ago this week, Blogger started rolling out HTTPS support for Blogspot blogs. This was part of a concerted push for "HTTPS everywhere" as adoption of secure sites took off. HTTPS Everywhere Blogger HTTPS Settings in 2015 On September 30, 2015 Blogger started rolling out HTTPS support . Initially this was only available for blogs on the blogspot.com domain, but it eventually became available for Blogger blogs with custom domains as well (like this one).  HTTPS is HTTP Secure, which makes an encrypted connection between the browser and web server. This prevents man-in-the-middle attacks, bad actors seeing authentication credentials and cookies, or even tampering with the data in transit. HTTPS was not new in 2015. Gmail web pages, for example, were using HTTPS in 200...

This week there are a variety of updates (unlike last week’s mostly-YouTube focus). There is news for YouTube, Twitch, Spotify, LinkTree, TikTok and more. 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email. Top news and updates this week To try: YouTube Labs AI experiments and Mixboard concept board You can now hide YouTube endscreens YouTube will allow some channels and creators to return after channel termination. Twitch added Stream Rewind, a DVR option that lets viewers pause, rewind and resume watching a livestream. Spotify has updated its impersonation policy and improved spam filters to protect against bad AI. Linktree has new AI-powered tools to create engaging profiles, plus a new integration with Canva. It looks like TikTok is close to having new US owners. It’s not clear how that may change the platform. YouTube now lets you filter comments in YouTube Studio to find “New replies to your response”, and will default the sort order to “most relevant”. YouTube launched...