Peggy K's Creator News

Dear readers, I love autumn, with crisp weather and colorful leaves. But I hate the end of Daylight Savings Time. I’m a night owl by nature, and it gets dark so early now, I’m already missing the daylight. If I sound at all cranky it’s probably the lack of sunshine. This week there are updates for YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, AdSense, LinkedIn, Mastodon and more. 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email.. Top news and updates this week Create Shorts from your camera roll with the “Edit with AI” tool in YouTube Create app and YouTube Shorts editor. YouTube is rolling out Dual Streams, letting you stream landscape and vertical simultaneously. Facebook now lets private Groups be converted to public groups, with privacy protections in place. YouTube Help AI Chat helps you find support (unless you are in Europe). YouTube Studio Analytics now lets you compare performance of organic and paid traffic. The Edits video editing app added color correction, caption animations and video ef...

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 7, 2015. Ten years ago this week Twitch added a Creative category to showcase non-gaming streamers. Twitch Creative Launches In October 2015 the new Twitch Creative category launched with a Bob Ross marathon. On October 28, 2015 Twitch Creative launched . There was a new landing page for the Creative category, with a Featured Video carousel highlighting streams from artists, crafters and builders.  Twitch also launched hashtags, so broadcasters could tag their stream with a specific activity, like #painting or #robotics, since "Creative" included everything that wasn't actually gaming. This was a notable addition. Twitch originally launched in 2011 as a live streaming platform for gamers, but on-gamers started using the platform too. In January 2015, Twitch adde...

Shockingly, it's already the first of November. Now is the time to work on those projects you want to finish by the end of the year! This week there are big updates from YouTube, Adobe, Canva and Affinity, Patreon, AdSense, Bluesky and more. 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email. Top news and updates this wee YouTube will look better on TVs with AI upscaling of low res videos, bigger thumbnails, immersive channel browsing, shopping QR codes. YouTube is strengthening their online gambling and graphic violence in video game policies. The Affinity professional creative software (vector, photo, layouts) is now free for everyone with a Canva account. Canva’s updated “Creative Operating System” has new features for video editing, forms, code, and email design. With lots of AI, of course. Plus a new Canva Business subscription option. From Adobe MAX: The free Adobe Premiere video editing app connects to YouTube Shorts, Firefly is an all-in-one AI ...

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 31, 2015. 10 years ago Google deployed Rank Brain, its first AI-powered ranking system for Search.  RankBrain Looks for Things, not Strings Image by Google Deep Mind (via Pexels ), "An artist’s illustration of artificial intelligence (AI). This image represents how machine learning is inspired by neuroscience and the human brain."  On October 26, 2015 Google announced that "a very large fraction" of search queries over the previous few months had been interpreted by a machine learning system called RankBrain. This was Google’s first AI-powered system for Search ranking, designed to help the system understand how words are related to real-world concepts. What does that mean?  An example Google used is a search for the “title of the consumer at the hig...

It’s Halloween week, with tips and tools for making your videos and stories more spooky. Plus updates for YouTube, the new Android XR headset from Samsung, Instagram, Facebook, X and more. 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email. Top news and updates this week Spooky Halloween tools and trends. YouTube likeness detection for Creators to detect AI deepfake videos. YouTube Communities are now available on desktop. The new S amsung Galaxy XR headset running AndroidXR launched with creative and productivity tools, including YouTube, Google Photos, Flow, Adobe’s Project Pulsar (immersive video editing), Maps, Docs, Meet and more. X launched a handle marketplace to rent desirable “inactive” handles. Rare handles may cost over a million dollars. And you only keep it while your X Premium subscription is active. X has a new way of displaying links that may mean they get more reach. YouTube lets you set a time limit for watching Shorts. YouTube may let Creators edit videos that ...

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 24, 2015. 10 years ago YouTube Red launched, offering ad-free videos and a Google Play Music subscription (with the promise of a future YouTube Music app).  YouTube Red Launches On October 21, 2015 YouTube announced YouTube Red, "a new membership designed to provide you with the ultimate YouTube experience." The subscription included ad-free videos, offline viewing and a subscription to Google Play Music (a separate YouTube Music app would be available "soon"). Google Play Music subscribers would also get YouTube Red. It would also include Originals, new series starring popular YouTubers, starting in 2016. No One Likes Ads, Right? YouTube Red wasn't YouTube's first subscription. Almost a year before ...