My 2025 Year in Review

Thanks to everyone for reading and watching in 2025! Here's a brief recap of my year.

15 Years as a Google Product Expert!

Social Media

In 2025 my YouTube channel gained nearly 1700 subscribers, with a year-end total of 8,598 subs. My goal for 2026 is to reach 10,000 subscribers, which should be doable!

I stopped posting on X, because reading posts there isn’t enjoyable and my shared link posts don’t get any engagement. I don’t miss it.

I am currently active on Bluesky and Threads. You can follow me from the Fediverse at @peggykolm@threads.net.

Newsletter and Posts

This year I published:

• 50 Creator Weekly newsletters (subscribe to get the free weekly email!)

• A 50-part series: 10 Years Ago This Week, which looked at the top tech updates in 2015. Most popular posts: 
• Google tries to ban porn on Blogger
• YouTube creates a place for kids

YouTube

⭐ 52 Live streams, including 50 Creator Weekly Live episodes. 

⭐ 112 Shorts, including a weekly "Creator Weekly in a Minute" and "10 Years Ago This Week"

• Top Short overall: Get YouTube Achievement Badges (published November 2024)
• Top Short published in 2025: Get AdSense Payments through PayPal Hyperwallet
• Top 10 Years Ago This Week episode: Friendster is Back? (it’s interesting that the top YouTube episodes are quite different than the top blog articles)

⭐ 3 Long Form Videos

• Top Video: Manage YouTube Mid-Roll Ads

⭐ Weekly YouTube Quiz

• The most popular by far: How many followers do you need to live stream on Instagram? I don’t know why this took off, but it has more than 21,000 responses.

⭐ Weekly tech tips and chat with OnEBoard. My top tips:

• How to use YouTube’s new Collaborations feature
• How to limit Google Forms respondents

What’s on the horizon for 2026?

Creator Weekly Live Podcast. You can now listen to episodes of the weekly live stream as a podcast. Add the podcast in YouTube Music.

Tutorials. Since I’ve completed the 10 Years Ago This Week series, I will have more time for tutorials, which are my most popular content. I’ll be using YouTube’s title and thumbnail testing tools to try to expand my audience on YouTube and writing complementary articles.

Building subscribers. I have been neglecting promoting my newsletter, which I need to work on. And I hope to reach 10,000 YouTube subscribers!

My watchword for 2025 is Focus!