Peggy K's Creator News

We are entering the last week of summer, the world is full of turmoil ( currently listening to this ), and there is news for video creators, web publishers, social media and more. For updates for YouTube, Vimeo, Reddit, Bluesky, Mastodon, Facebook, Substack, a new collective rights organization for publishers (big and small), and more, read on. 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email.. Top news and updates this week Really Simple Licensing & the RSL Collective Rights org gives options to publishers who want to control AI bot access. YouTube multi-language tracks are available to more creators, with multi-language thumbnails being tested. Reddit replaces subreddit subscriber counts with viewers and contributors Patreon redesigns Creator Home pages with shelves to organize and highlight content. Apple Final Cut Camera 2.0 supports open gate recording, ProRes RAW capture and genlock. Some features require the new iPhone 17 Pro. Generate AI Stickers in the YouTube Shorts ed...

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 September 12, 2015. Ten years ago this week, Apple declared "the future of TV is apps". And while people are still watching broadcast and cable TV, it seems the apps are winning. Apps are the Future of TV Apple Developer tvOS site , September 2015 September is the month Apple announces new hardware, going back at least a decade. On September 9, 2015, Apple announced new iPhones and iPads (of course), an Apple Pencil Stylus, and notably the totally redesigned Apple TV. It had improved navigation and even included Siri. But the biggest change was that the new tvOS operating system that was based on iOS 9.   “There has been so much innovation in entertainment and programming throug...

This is a great week for iOS device users, with new apps for video editing (Premiere, YouTube Create) and Instagram. There’s also updates for everyone on Twitch, Threads, Bluesky, Discord, TikTok and more. Read on! 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email. Top news and updates this week To try this week: Four YouTube metrics you should understand and Androidify yourself. Promote your YouTube Community by getting a shareable link for the community or re-sharing a community post. The YouTube Create video editing app is now available for iPhones (in Canada). There’s a new free Adobe Premiere app for iPhone, with an Android version coming some time in the future. Threads now lets you add text attachments with up to 10,000 characters. But use with caution, because they are locked into the platform. There is finally a dedicated Instagram app for iPad. The bigger screen design will be coming soon to Android tablets. The Google Photos Create tab is rolling out in the US, as a sin...

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 September 5, 2015. Ten years ago this week, big tech companies including Google, Microsoft and Amazon formed the Alliance for Open Media. The purpose was to develop open source digital media technology.  Big Tech Forms an Alliance Alliance for Open Media home page, September 2015. 10 years ago this week the Alliance for Open Media launched. This non-profit industry consortium formed to develop open, royalty-free technology for video and other media delivery. The founding members were industry leaders Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel Corporation, Microsoft, Mozilla and Netflix. In 2015, the most popular video format was AVC (H.264 or MPEG-4), and was due to be superseded by  High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC or H.265). These are methods of compressing data while trying to re...

It’s Labor Day weekend, the unofficial end of summer. Here in the Bay Area we’ve only just started getting hot days, so I feel a bit off kilter. Or maybe it’s the times we’re in. This week there are updates for video creators on YouTube, Google Vids, Google Photos, StreamYard, and Twitch; web publishers should know about the latest updates to Google Search and Typepad, and there’s updates on social media for Threads, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit and more. 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email. Top news and updates this week YouTube Hype expands to 39 countries. You can hype 3 recent videos per week. Google Vids is now available to everyone, but free accounts don’t get the AI powered tools. And soon you can create square and vertical video. Google Vids added new AI tools: convert still images to short video clips, use an AI avatar to read your script and edit out “filler words” and “awkward pauses”. The Google Gemini “Nano Banana” image model makes it easy to edit your phot...