Peggy K's Creator News

Hello creators! This week there are updates from YouTube, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram and more. 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email.. Top news and updates this week YouTube allows more profanity to be monetized. YouTube is beginning to estimate whether viewers are at least 18 years old automatically. Update on UK age verification requirements. It’s not going great (or maybe this was the plan all along?). goo.gl short links are due to stop working August 25, and now some active goo.gl links will continue to work (but you may want to remove them all from your site). Instagram now limits live streaming to accounts with at least 1,000 followers. TikTok added Creator Care mode for comments, TikTok LIVE comment muting by keyword or emoji, Creator Inbox for managing comments, Creator Chat Rooms to chat with fans.. YouTube added a Posts shelf to the Channel Home tab. If you have at least 2 Posts it’s there now. Filter your YouTube playlists by description and visibility. YouT...

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 August 1, 2015.   Ten years ago Google demoted Google+ from the social across all Google products to a social platform focused on connecting users with shared interests. Google+ Was the Social Layer Across Google Frame from the official Google video "Google+: Explore Settings", published June 11, 2011 Google+ launched in 2011 to much fanfare . Soon  Google+ head Vic Gundotra was describing  as the "social layer across all of Google's services." "The old Google was siloed; your identity and how you share with your family was different across each product. ... In the new version of Google, we know your name, we understand your circles and we make every service better." It's pretty clear this is part of where Google+ went wrong. People actually d...