Peggy K's Creator News

YouTube celebrated its 20th birthday this week (that makes me feel so old!). Plus the new Instagram Edits video editor is now available, Adobe connects your verified identity (via LinkedIn) to your digital art, and more updates from AdSense, Facebook, Bluesky, and Threads. 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email. Top news and updates this week YouTube celebrates its 20th birthday with facts, figures, and new features. YouTube is testing Search AI Overviews that highlight clips in response to shopping or location searches. AdSense updates the account Policy Center to make it easier to understand ad-serving issues. Instagram’s Edits free video editing app is now available for iOS and Android. Facebook is battling spam at least in part to help Creators get their posts seen. Linktree now offers multiple ways for Creators to monetize, including Kajabi course creation, selling digital products, and sponsored links. Medium adds email notifications for new posts. Google Chrome...

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 ending April 25, 2015 . 10 years ago this week Facebook said your News Feed would prioritize content from your Friends over content from Pages. A decade later they are still trying to find the right balance. Facebook Moved Friends' Posts Higher in the News Feed Facebook Announcement April 2015 "Balancing Content from Friends and Pages"  Back in 2015, Facebook asked people to rate their feeds and give feedback. They then announced  that that were adjusting the News Feed to try to address that feedback. There were two main pain points.  First, people were concerned about missing important updates from friends. So Facebook adjusted the News Feed to put content posted by Friends like photos, videos, status updates and links, higher up in the feed. People also said they weren’t int...

This week I’m celebrating rebirth and renewal with Easter on Sunday and Earth Day on Tuesday. If you celebrate I hope you have a joyous holiday. What’s new? YouTube rolled out automatic dubbing to more channels, Twitch gave creators more time to save their Highlights, Patreon launched live streaming, Medium explained the importance of a diversity for their platform, and lots more. 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email. Top news and updates this week All YouTube Partner Program channels can enable automatic dubbing between English and 8 other languages. The Creators Guild of America created a contract rider to protect the legal and creative rights of content creators. YouTube is gamifying Gifting with Gift Combos. YouTube will age-restrict some violent scripted content. Patreon launched live streaming for creators. Twitch postpones enforcement of its new 100 hour Highlights limit. TikTok is testing Footnotes, its version of Community Notes. CapCut Commerce Pro is now P...

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 ending April 18, 2015 .  Ten years ago this week, Google shut down Helpouts.  Helpouts: A platform for experts to sell their expertise Helpouts Home Page in 2013. Note both free and paid Help outs were available.  Helpouts launched in 2013 with a simple premise: What if getting help for a computer glitch, a leaky pipe, or a homework problem was as easy as clicking a button?  This was not Google's first platform for connecting people with questions and experts with answers.  Google Answers launched in 2003 and shut down in 2006, apparently unable to compete with the similar Yahoo Answers (which shut down in 2021 ). There are similar platforms still running today, like Quora and Stack Overflow . What set Helpouts apart was that it connected peo...

If you aren’t keen on generative AI-powered tools, then maybe skip this week’s updates, because it’s all about AI. Productivity met creativity at two big tech conferences this week. Google Cloud Next, with updates for Google Cloud and Workspace, focused more on the productivity side and Canva Create focused more on the creativity side. But with Google highlighting video creation models and Canva launching a splashy new spreadsheet tool, the boundaries are blurring. Plus there were updates for Google Search AI Mode, the latest version of Davinci Resolve has a suite of AI-powered tools, and Adobe announced their vision for incorporating agentic AI into their products.. If you don’t want to read about AI, check out the other updates for YouTube, Threads, Bluesky and X. 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email. Top news and updates this week At Google Cloud Next , Google announced updates to its creative generative AI models Veo 2 (video), Lyria (music), Imagen 3 (images), Chirp...