Peggy K's Creator News

This week there are a variety of updates (unlike last week’s mostly-YouTube focus). There is news for YouTube, Twitch, Spotify, LinkTree, TikTok and more. 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email. Top news and updates this week To try: YouTube Labs AI experiments and Mixboard concept board You can now hide YouTube endscreens YouTube will allow some channels and creators to return after channel termination. Twitch added Stream Rewind, a DVR option that lets viewers pause, rewind and resume watching a livestream. Spotify has updated its impersonation policy and improved spam filters to protect against bad AI. Linktree has new AI-powered tools to create engaging profiles, plus a new integration with Canva. It looks like TikTok is close to having new US owners. It’s not clear how that may change the platform. YouTube now lets you filter comments in YouTube Studio to find “New replies to your response”, and will default the sort order to “most relevant”. YouTube launched...

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 September 26, 2015. Ten years ago this week, Facebook added 360° video to the News Feed, starting with professional media, and then followed by creator content. This was 6 months behind YouTube's 360° video launch. But a decade on, what happened to all the video in the round? Immersive Video in the Facebook News Feed 360-degree video in the Facebook News Feed ( press image ). You could rotate your phone to open full screen. On September 23, 2015 Facebook introduced 360° video in the News Feed. This was initially available on the web and Android, and launched on iOS a few months later.  The initial videos were mass media content, including videos from Star Wars, Discovery Channel and Saturday Night Live. Creators would soon be able to upload their own 360 video content. Facebook said this is what peo...

This week’s updates are (almost) all about YouTube, as dozens of new and coming features were announced at this week’s Made on YouTube event. There’s also updates from Meta VR, Beehiiv, TikTok, Medium and more. 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email.. Top news and updates this week YouTube Shorts AI-powered tools: motion transfer, video stylization, add or remove an object, Speech to Song. YouTube Edit with AI will create a first draft from your camera footage in the Shorts Editor or YouTube Create app. YouTube title A/B testing, along with thumbnail testing. YouTube Collaborations , with up to 5 collaborators per video (with some limitations). YouTube Studio updates including auto-dubbing with lip syncing, the Ask Studio AI chatbot, updated Inspiration tab and Likeness Detection for all monetizing creators. YouTube Live features including Practice sessions, Playables, streaming horizontal and vertical video simultaneously, live reaction videos, AI-created highlight clips, ...

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 September 19, 2015. Ten years ago this week, iOS 9 launched with new support for ad blockers and publishers were concerned this would kill their revenue. Apple's new News app wasn't really an alternative. Ad Blocking for the iPhone  Did Apple "change the web forever"? TIME Magazine suggested they could.   In 2015 big news and magazine publishers were struggling . Some were pivoting to video.  Digital advertising revenue was flat on desktop, but growing on mobile.   So the news that iOS 9, launched in September 2015, had added support for ad blockers was of huge concern. Previously ad blockers weren’t possible on the iPhone.  Time magazine declared this could "change the web forever", and noted, “In the days since iOS 9’s release, ...

We are entering the last week of summer, the world is full of turmoil ( currently listening to this ), and there is news for video creators, web publishers, social media and more. For updates for YouTube, Vimeo, Reddit, Bluesky, Mastodon, Facebook, Substack, a new collective rights organization for publishers (big and small), and more, read on. 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email.. Top news and updates this week Really Simple Licensing & the RSL Collective Rights org gives options to publishers who want to control AI bot access. YouTube multi-language tracks are available to more creators, with multi-language thumbnails being tested. Reddit replaces subreddit subscriber counts with viewers and contributors Patreon redesigns Creator Home pages with shelves to organize and highlight content. Apple Final Cut Camera 2.0 supports open gate recording, ProRes RAW capture and genlock. Some features require the new iPhone 17 Pro. Generate AI Stickers in the YouTube Shorts ed...