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Are you ready for a bit of a break from AI updates? This week it’s all about live streaming, with new features on YouTube for both creators and viewers. There are also updates for Spotify, Instagram, LinkedIn, WordPress, Medium and more. 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email. Top news and updates this week To try this week: share Google Photos albums with a QR code. YouTube launched side-by-side mid-roll ads for live streams. YouTube now supports the AV1 video codec for live streams. YouTube is testing a leaderboard for live stream viewers. You can now use StreamYard to stream to Kick . You can now use Restream to stream to Substack . X now has 4K live streaming, but no roll-out to creators (yet). YouTube updated the monetization review process to re-review videos with yellow icon “limited” ads. YouTube Shorts editor now uses Lyria 2 for Dream Track music generation and Veo 3 for Dream Screen video generation. Google says it will add a visible watermark to Veo-generat...

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 May 30, 2015. At Google I/O 2015, Google Photos was launched to instant acclaim. And Google dove into VR video with the Jump camera rig, Cardboard VR viewer, 360 YouTube videos and student Expeditions.  Google Photos Born from Google+ This year's Google I/O was, of course, all about AI .  But go back to 2015 and the big exciting news (at least for me) was the launch of Google Photos.  Photos was touted as “ Gmail for pictures ” and included free unlimited storage for “high quality" photos. It organized photos by "people, places and things", even when the photos weren't tags. It let you create collages, movies, and animations (and created some automatically). And it was easy to share photos and albums with anyone -- even folks without a Google Account. And it was no longer part ...

At Google I/O this week, there was a dizzying array of AI updates. AI to create videos, AI to translate your meetings, AI to help you shop, AI to answer your questions. The features are available now, or next month or by the end of the year, to everyone, or Workspace users or just folks who can afford an AI Ultra subscription. I’m exhausted just writing that. It feels like Google is in the middle of a transition between running an array of experimental AI-powered projects and launching features for users. Maybe by next year’s I/O it will be more settled. This week there are also (non-AI) updates for YouTube, AdSense, Bluesky, TikTok and more. 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email. Top news and updates this week Google I/O was all about AI. I’ll note a few updates in this list, but there are lots more. NotebookLM will be adding AI Video Overviews to go with the podcast-like Audio Overviews. It also has a mobile app. Google AI Ultra gets you all of Google’s latest AI tools, bu...

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 May 23, 2015. Ten years ago, Google added the Twitter firehose , posts from the real-time feed of Tweets, to the Google Search results. That meant for breaking news events you could immediately find related Tweets in Search. Google had previously shown real-time Tweets starting in 2009. But in 2011 that deal expired, and Google said they were working on adding Google+ to their real time search results.  Fast forward to 2015. Twitter terminated agreements with third parties to resell the firehose data and decided they would be making deals directly. Google apparently was one of those direct deals. The benefit for Google was getting up-to-the minute content in the search results.  The benefit for Twitter was that people could find those Tweets, click, an...

This week there are updates from YouTube, TikTok, X, Adobe, Threads and more. Google was a bit quiet this week, which is not too surprising given that Google I/O is just days away. Expect plenty of announcements next week. Stay tuned! 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email. Top news and updates this week Collaborators can upvote (or downvote) videos in YouTube playlists. For Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Google (Android and Chrome), Apple , TikTok and Meta announced new accessibility features. YouTube launched weekly Podcast Charts in the US. YouTube updated the mobile miniplayer to pause when it’s hidden. YouTube announced new advertising opportunities at Brandcast, including placing ads where videos are most engaging. TikTok announced AI Alive, a tool that turns a photo into a short video. In response to user feedback Spotify will only display Plays publicly for major milestones. X now supports 4k video uploads for Premium subscribers...

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 May 16, 2015. 10 years ago this week Discord launched to the public. It was designed as a chat platform for gamers. Founder Jason Citron started in the gaming industry and  launched Discord when gamers were more interested in the chat features  of his company's latest game than the actual game play. Discord header from 2016 blog post. Discord's logo, nicknamed Clyde, is a cute game controller. Why Discord? Founder and CEO Jason Citron said:  We picked the name because at the end of the day it just sounds cool and has to do with talking. … You want a name that is easy to say, spell, remember, related to the function of the product, available for ™, and has a website you can get. … Discord met all the criteria that we had and we fell in love with the name. You can creat...