Peggy K's Creator News

Hello readers! This week has been relatively quiet. But there is a theme emerging. Platforms are trying to figure out how to highlight human creators and encourage original content, while tamping down the bots and AI slop. Of course those same platforms really want people to use their generative AI tools and AI agents, so it’s not clear how they will find a balance. ✉ Subscribe to the Creator Weekly newsletter 🔴 Join Creator Weekly Live on Sunday My tip for the week: Try the new custom caption styles in Google Vids . Top Updates Google stand-alone SynthID AI watermark detector. YouTube improves Shopping analytics. Google Vids improved “point-in-time” editing timeline. Restream ’s clipping tool now works with YouTube videos and can share directly to Instagram. X native video editor adds caption editing. X is running “liveness checks” to weed out b...

Hello Readers! This week YouTube is boosting original Shorts, Edits added a built-in assistant, Facebook Forum has a stand-alone app for Groups, Linktree launched DMs and YouTube tools and Reddit is killing its RSS feeds. ✉ Subscribe to the Creator Weekly newsletter. 🔴 Join Creator Weekly Live on Sunday. Top Updates YouTube Shorts with original content will be prioritized in the Shorts feed. YouTube Live dual-format streaming has new vertical layouts. YouTube is updating its advertiser-friendly guidelines to allow some potentially  “Hateful” content in the public interest to be monetized. Use your voice to leave comments on YouTube videos on TV. Customize caption styles in Google Vids. Plus Vids now has the latest text-to-speech model for voiceovers and avatars. The Edits video editing app has an AI assistant for making and optimizing your  Instagram Reels. ...

Hello readers! Autumn is here, with cooler weather, pumpkin pie spice in everything, and the Made on YouTube event, with tons of new features on the horizon. There’s also a free Adobe Premiere app, and new features in Google Vids, Search Console, Discord, LinkedIn, X and more.  ✉ Subscribe to the Creator Weekly newsletter. 🔴 Join Creator Weekly Live on Sunday. Top Updates Tons of new features for viewers and creators are coming to YouTube over the coming months. Check out the Made on YouTube recap.  The free Adobe Premiere video editing app is available for Android. Google Vids now lets even free personal accounts use AI to generate HD video. Google Search Console now has multimodal Search performance reports. If your site has images it gives you an idea of how they perform in Google Lens search and other image-prompted searches. ...

This week was YouTube’s annual “Made on YouTube” even t, with announcements that give a sneak peek into new features YouTube is working on that will start becoming available over the coming months. There’s updates for both creators and viewers. Here are the top updates: 👀 Customize your home feed with AI prompts. 📺 Shorts Series. Make a microdrama! 🦻Audio podcast recommendation guide. 📰 Posts in the Shorts feed and on TVs. ✂ Conversational video editor for Shorts and YouTube Create. ✨Ask Studio on mobile, with more help with understanding metrics and optimizing your videos. 🖼 Dynamic thumbnails, matching thumbnail to audience. 📊Shorts video A/B testing to help you find the best hook. 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Communities: Easier commenting on TVs, AI-powered comment moderation, members-only communities, group messaging. 💎 Super-charged Hype with jewels. 🔴 “Watch with” expansion to live react to long-form videos. 💑 Go Live Togethe...

Hello readers! This week Meta One subscriptions launched, and it looks like creators are expected to pay to succeed. Google Search opened up Search Profiles to more creators and is piloting paying publishers that appear in AI Overviews and Gemini.  There are also updates for live streamers, podcasters, website owners and more.  Top Updates More YouTube , Instagram , X and TikTok creators are eligible for Google Search Profiles. Meta One Subscriptions launched for creators and businesses, with Instagram and Facebook features including links on Reels and posts, advance post scheduling, more analytics Insights and more. Threads added a bunch of new podcast features for podcaster profiles and posts. Twitch no longer lets you only show Featured clips.  Cloudflare lets you block AI training bots while still allowing crawling by the Googlebot, Applebot and Bingbot....

Hello readers! I hope you are enjoying the waning days of summer. It was 95°F here in the Bay Area this week, which felt more like mid-summer than early-autumn. I am ready for cooler weather. With the Monday Labor Day holiday here in the US, updates were sparser than usual. But, even so, there are updates for YouTube, Twitch, AdSense, Instagram, Threads and more. Read on! ✉ Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email. 🔴 Join Creator Weekly Live on Sunday. Top Updates YouTube Shorts has a new “Get Feedback” tool to evaluate your drafts,  now available to US users. Twitch is testing a Stream Coach that gives personalized feedback and tips on your streams. The new Apple Duo ’s camera doesn’t live up to the iPhone 18 Pro.  IMDb has added Digital Creator as a professional category.  Restream has new integrations with X , including viewer analytics and comment repli...