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There’s no summer holidays in tech, at least not this week. There are multiple updates for YouTube, plus new features for Twitch, Threads, Facebook, Canva, Google Search, Google Ads Manager, Google Photos, and more. I suspect it has to do with getting features out before June 30th, the end of Q2 and the start of the July 4th holiday week in the US. Read on for this week’s details. 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email. Top news and updates this week YouTube Studio Advanced Analytics improvements Expanded access and more languages for YouTube autodubbing. YouTube Search AI-powered results includes a carousel of clips for travel and shopping content. YouTube Inspiration (AI) tab coming to Europe and Dream Screen AI video generation is coming to the UK. YouTube will soon prohibit under-16s from livestreaming. Twitch Partners can apply to appear on the Front Page. The new Sofiana app turns journalism and academic articles into TikTok scripts. Edits by Instagram (the video e...

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 June 27, 2015. Reddit launched in June 2005. Ten years later it was in turmoil, with a crackdown on harassment and the CEO receiving death threats and other abuse.  Big Changes as Reddit Turned 10 In 2015 Reddit celebrated 10 years by listing top posts and comments. Ten years ago, as Reddit celebrated its 10th birthday, Redditors were angry.   Just a few months earlier Reddit's Privacy Policy was updated to explicitly prohibit revenge porn  and there was a crackdown on harassment .  Reddit banned 5 subreddits under the new harassment policy , including one dedicated to mocking fat people that had more than 150,000 members.   If you are reading this and thinking those were good changes, I'm right there with you. But some Redditors conside...

Happy summer! No vacation here, as this week there are updates from YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Threads, Patreon, Firefly and more. Are you new to YouTube? Or could you use a refresher on YouTube’s features and settings? Join me Sunday, immediately after Creator Weekly live, when I host OnEBoard Chat on YouTube Basics . Set a reminder. 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email. Top news and updates this week Most YouTube channels with access to Posts will soon be able to enable an actual Community on their Community tab. Threads has added a Fediverse feed for accounts you follow on Mastodon , WordPress (with ActivityPub), Ghost and other servers. Soon all videos uploaded to Facebook will be Reels, no matter the format or length. Plus the Video tab is now the Reels tab. Patreon is raising prices for new creators. Now is the time to create your page. YouTube will automatically create a product sticker in Shorts if you are monetizing with YouTube Shopping. Coming to YouTube...

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 June 20, 2015. In June 2015 the First Draft Coalition launched, with support from Google and and news organizations.  First Draft Connected Journalists and Misinformation Researchers First Draft on Medium , June 2015 By 2015 smartphones were common, at least in the US. Most adults carried a camera with video recording in their pocket or purse all the time.  That meant there were more eyewitness photos and video of unfolding events than ever before.  The First Draft Coalition was a group of “thought leaders and pioneers in social media journalism to create educational resources on how to verify eyewitness media, and how to consider the ethics of using it in news reporting”. They also helped coordinate sharing information between journalists, fact-checking organizations ...

Another week, another tech developer conference. Among Apple’s announcements this week were new creative tools that sound pretty sweet. Plus there are video updates for YouTube, Instagram Edits and Twitch, updates to the Google Photos and Snapseed image editors, bad news for webmasters, and more. 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email. Top news and updates this week Among the announcements at the Apple WWDC were updated AirPods that support studio-quality audio recording and camera controls, calligraphy on the iPad, and a variety of AI tools (of course). YouTube highlights Posts in the Shorts feed. YouTube makes it easier to Promote your videos in the Android app. Sync your video and photo clips to music in the YouTube Shorts editor. Generate short video clips with audio with Veo 3 in Google Vids . Use AI filters to Restyle videos in the Edits by Instagram video editing app. If you don’t use Edits , you can AI-style your videos at meta.AI Edits now has a built-in tele...

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 June 13, 2015. In June 2015 the once-popular Friendster social network shut down. But it's back! Can it succeed this time around?  Social Networking Pioneer Friendster  Friendster Beta in 2003 let you connect with other people through networks of friends The Friendster social network launched in March 2003, five months before MySpace and almost a year before Facebook. It had the features you would expect from a social site, including sharing posts and photos, commenting and interacting with other members, finding events, and even dating. It was popular! Apparently Google even offered to purchase Friendster , but was shot down, a move that was supposedly one of the "biggest blunders" in Silicon Valley . But behind the scenes there were apparently technical and manage...