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Are you a video creator, blogger, content collector or curator? Subscribe to get news and tutorials for YouTube, Blogger, AdSense, and other creator tools, platforms, social media, and more!  Learn more about me . Last updated January 2025       Subscribe to the RSS feed      Subscribe to Weekly Creator Updates only Subscribe to my Weekly Creator Newsletter by email Creator Weekly Live!  Join me live on Sundays at 10:30 AM Pacific to discuss the week's creator updates.  Watch or set a notification. Watch previous episodes: Tips, Tutorials & Updates       Blogger Tutorials & Updates        YouTube  and  Live Streaming  Tutorials & Updates        Chat and Meet  Tutorials & Update...
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Creator Weekly: YouTube is the new TV, Adobe Firefly Video Generator, Enhanced Safe Browsing

Dear readers, I ❤ you all. Happy Valentine’s Weekend! This week YouTube says it’s the new television, there are new text-to-video AI models to try, TikTok’s back in the US app stores, there’s a new open source platform for online safety tools, you can register a domain for 100 years, Google Chat and Docs have new features and more. 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email.. Top news and updates this week Celebrate Valentine’s day by giving Gifts to YouTube live streamers or sharing your Twitch clips. YouTube declared it’s the new television. They are the epicenter of culture and are creating businesses in Hollywood. Turn on the Enhanced Safe Browsing mode in Chrome to protect your YouTube channel and Google Account. The TikTok App once again can be installed from the Google Play Store or Apple App Store in the US. Adobe Released their Firefly AI Video model with advanced text-to-video tools, plus translation and dubbing, all trained on “properly licensed content.” The YouTube Sh...

Ten Years Ago This Week: Google Maps Turns 10 (and now its 20)

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 February 8, 2015 . On February 8, 2015  Google Maps turned 10 . That means, of course, that Google Maps turned 20 this week.  It's amazing to think an entire generation has had the ability to easily access maps and real-time navigation from a device you can carry in your pocket. It has literally been life changing.  Google Maps launched in February 2005  on desktop and was available on mobile phones by April.  Some of the big updates leading up to Maps 10th anniversary:  Google Earth launched in May 2005 Street View launched in May 2007 Google bought Panoramio, with photos with exact geographical locations,  in May 2007 Google Map Maker  launched in June 2008 Goo...

Creator Weekly: LinkedIn video, YouTube on TV, Google Photos AI watermarks

This week’s creator updates are all about video, with updates on LinkedIn, YouTube on TV, and kick. There’s also events for the Super Bowl, highlighted Black Creators for Black History Month and news for Google Photos, AdSense, Bluesky, X, Threads, and more. My plans? As Super Bowl Sunday is an unofficial US holiday, I’m going to take the opportunity for afternoon beer and snacks. 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email. Top news and updates this week Gear up for Super Bowl Sunday. Celebrate Black Creators for Black History Month. Video on LinkedIn is “booming”, with new features for video discovery, viewing and creator following. YouTube makes it easier to watch videos and Shorts and subscribe to channels on TVs. Repurpose.io lets you post your Instagram Reels and TikToks to YouTube Shorts. YouTube Shopping has a bug where FourthWall products are incorrectly rejected. Kick completely rewrote their Community Guide...

Ten Years Ago This Week: YouTube Puts a Nail in Flash's Coffin

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 February 1, 2015. Ten years ago this week, YouTube started defaulting to the HTML5 video player , which was one more nail in the coffin for Adobe Flash. Watch the Short  version below.    Flash in 2015 Internet Archive Flash Showcase If you remember the internet in the 2000s and 2010s, Flash was everywhere. It powered lots of games, really slow loading web sites, and of course video players. Want to relive those days? The Internet Archive has a " curated collection of interesting or historical Flash animations and games" , running with an emulator . In 2015 Flash was already dead on mobile, because it was never supported on iOS devices (including iPod, iPhone, and iPad), and the last version of Flash f...

Creator Weekly: YouTube Community, Instagram Insights, Twitch Clips

It’s been a long week, hasn’t it? I’ll leave it at that. Good news, no TikTok updates this week! There are updates for YouTube, Bluesky, Threads, Instagram and more. 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email.  Top news and updates this week Tip: Get the most out of your Google One Premium subscription with advanced Workspace features. YouTube Communities are expanding to more channels, and the current channel Community tab is now the Posts tab. New in YouTube Analytics: Device Type card shows what type of devices (phone, computer, TV, tablet) your viewers use to watch your videos. YouTube updated their Harassment policy to ban content with simulations of dead individuals narrating their own death. YouTube shared tips on creating Shorts, the new Hype monetization and Community Guidelines updates over the past year. Twitch lets creators export vertical Clips to Instagram , in addition to Y...