Peggy K's Creator News

Happy weekend dear readers! This week there are updates from YouTube, Google Vids, TikTok, Twitch, Facebook, Bluesky and Google Search Console. Google Gemini 3 and Nano Banana Pro are out, there are updated productivity tools and more. 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email. Top news and updates this week Facebook Content Protection helps creators find unauthorized copies of their Reels and block them. Everyone can now use Gemini -powered tools in Google Vids for free, including generating voiceovers, transcript trimming and image editing. Generating video clips requires a paid account. Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) is now available, with better image consistency, detailed editing controls, and the ability to generate infographics. Use it in Google Slides , Vids , NotebookLM , and the Gemini app (some require Google Workspace or AI subscription). YouTube is testing DMs for video sharing. It’s currently available in Ireland and Poland. YouTube Shopping has improved...

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 21, 2015. Ten years ago this week the YouTube Music app launched. Watch the Short version. Streaming Music with YouTube's Video Catalog YouTube Music app in the Google Play Store in 2015 . The app screenshot shows "Stations created for you" with "endless personalized music. The new YouTube Music app was (and still is) the entrance to the huge music catalog on YouTube. It would recommend tracks for you to listen to, and create personalized "stations" of streaming music.  In 2015 YouTube was promoting itself as a music platform,  even running their first (and only) music awards show  honoring "the biggest and emerging artists to watch." (There had been one previous music awards show focused on fan favorites in 2013, which  didn't go well .) ...

This week there are updates from Patreon, Beehiiv, Buffer, Facebook, YouTube and more. 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email.. Top news and updates this week Beehiiv is expanding beyond newsletters, creating a single platform for creators to create a website, sell digital products, add podcast pages, and lets you create a free link-in-bio landing page. Patreon adds discovery features based on user interests. Buffer now lets you view and respond to social comments from Instagram , Facebook , Threads , Bluesky , X and LinkedIn . (Follow 3 platforms with a free account) Facebook will discontinue the Like and Comment plugins for third party websites in January. diVine is a new Vine -like platform with 100,000 of the original Vine videos and support from former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. Viewers can now share their YouTube Hype as a public post. YouTube has new filters for channel pages, letting you see only Members-only or only Public videos. YouTube explained channel...

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 14, 2015. Ten years ago this week Google announced TensorFlow, an open source machine learning platform for everyone. Watch the Short version. Open Source Machine Learning TensorFlow home page in November 2015 On November 9, 2015 Google released TensorFlow, their open source machine learning system. It was faster, smarter, and more flexible than their previous systems. And it could run on a single smartphone or scale up to a whole data center. At the time Google was already using TensorFlow for speech recognition in the Google app , search in Google Photos, Smart Reply in Inbox  (which is gone, but there's Smart Reply in Gmail instead), and RankBrain in Search . By making it Open Source, it was available to academics, engineers at other companies, and even hobbyists. The view from 2025 ...

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...