Peggy K's Creator News

This week there are a ton of updates, as the big tech companies near the end-of-year code freeze. If something will be launched this year, now is the time! For video creators there are updates for YouTube, Twitch, Instagram and Edits, Facebook, and TikTok. For website owners there are several updates to Google Search Console, improved links in Search, updates to AdSense and more. 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email. Top news and updates this week Adjust your Algorithm for Instagram Reels. Facebook updated Profiles, Feed, Search, comments and navigation to improve discovery related to your interests. TikTok adds Shared Collections and Shared Feed linked to your DMs. Google Search is expanding the Preferred Sources option globally. They are also making other changes (including to AI Mode) meant to encourage users to visit websites. Google Search Console is testing social channel data from YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and so forth in Search Console Insights. Google Photos has...

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 December 12, 2015. Ten years ago this week YouTube added a trending tab, to highlight buzzworthy videos. It was removed this past summer, having outlived its usefulness. Watch the Short version. Finding Videos That Are Generating Discussion The YouTube Trending Tab, 11 December 2015. Movie trailers dominated. In December 2015, YouTube premiered their annual "Rewind video", recapping the top videos of the past year, and announced the brand new Trending tab .  YouTube suggested that this would be the way to keep up with the hot videos, "on and off YouTube". ... the Trending tab offers a way to see the videos people are watching, discussing, and sharing each and every day via a feed in your YouTube desktop and mobile app. From the most-anticipated new trailers to the hottest musi...

The end of 2025 is drawing close, which means it’s time to look back at your year. YouTube launched its first viewer recap (and it’s pretty cute), and you can get recaps of your Photos, activity on Twitch and more. The other big news this week is that Australian under-16s are being removed from major social platforms under a new law. Plus there are updates for YouTube, TikTok, Substack, Search Console and more. 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email. Top news and updates this week Get your 2025 recap from YouTube , Google Photos , Twitch , Discord , Spotify  and more. Australia's Social Media Minimum Age Act, banning under-16s from Facebook , Instagram , YouTube , Twitch , Reddit , X , Snapchat , and Kick , goes into effect December 10th. YouTube says they will restore teens’ channels when they turn 16. YouTube is launching video title A/B testing. YouTube lets you limit comments to subscribers and paid members. YouTube videos are getting Expressive Captions (in Englis...

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 December 5, 2015. Ten years ago Google introduced a new option in Search to save images to your account.  Watch the Short version. Save Your Found Images Saving images in Google Search, 2015 In December 2015, Google added the ability to save and organize images from search. This was a new feature on mobile devices that let you star and bookmark images in the Google Search results, and organize them into folders. It started out only available on the mobile web in the US. A few months later it was expanded to Google Search on desktop. Save Anything from Search in a Collection  My Dublin 2025 Collection, created as a list in Google Maps.  Google has expanded Collections so that you not only can save images, but also save links and places.   You can shar...

Dear readers, I’m thankful for you! This Thanksgiving week I want to say how appreciative I am to my subscribers, readers, and live stream viewers. That keeps me going. This week there are updates for YouTube, Instagram, Patreon, Twitch and lots more. Read on! 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email. Top news and updates this week New YouTube Community features including pin a post, heart viewer posts, shareable Community links and desktop access. New YouTube Shorts AI tools using the Veo 3 model with sound effects and speech and Dream Track lyrics and vocals. Patreon will host your podcast RSS feed for free, and has new plays metrics, gifts memberships for paid members, chat replay for livestream recordings, improved Post composition and more. YouTube is experimenting with letting you customize your own feed recommendations. YouTube is expanding access to checks for Community Guidelines violations before publication. YouTube live chat and Memberships will show handles, r...

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 28, 2015. Ten years ago Microsoft launched a project to help bring the internet to underserved parts of the world. Facebook and Google had their own projects meant to bring the internet to billions of new users. Watch the Short version. Bringing Internet Access to the World Microsoft Affordable Access Initiative home page, 2015 One of the big tech pushes in 2015 was bringing the internet connectivity and web services to new markets.  10 years ago this week Microsoft launched the Affordable Access Initiative, a grant program that invested in infrastructure to bring the Internet to the 4 billion people who didn’t have access. This followed Google and Facebook projects to bring the internet to more users. This would expand on projects launched in the US, Kenya and Philippines...