Peggy K's Creator News

Hello readers! Autumn is here, with cooler weather, pumpkin pie spice in everything, and the Made on YouTube event, with tons of new features on the horizon. There’s also a free Adobe Premiere app, and new features in Google Vids, Search Console, Discord, LinkedIn, X and more.  ✉ Subscribe to the Creator Weekly newsletter. 🔴 Join Creator Weekly Live on Sunday. Top Updates Tons of new features for viewers and creators are coming to YouTube over the coming months. Check out the Made on YouTube recap.  The free Adobe Premiere video editing app is available for Android. Google Vids now lets even free personal accounts use AI to generate HD video. Google Search Console now has multimodal Search performance reports. If your site has images it gives you an idea of how they perform in Google Lens search and other image-prompted searches. ...

Hello readers! This week Meta One subscriptions launched, and it looks like creators are expected to pay to succeed. Google Search opened up Search Profiles to more creators and is piloting paying publishers that appear in AI Overviews and Gemini.  There are also updates for live streamers, podcasters, website owners and more.  Top Updates More YouTube , Instagram , X and TikTok creators are eligible for Google Search Profiles. Meta One Subscriptions launched for creators and businesses, with Instagram and Facebook features including links on Reels and posts, advance post scheduling, more analytics Insights and more. Threads added a bunch of new podcast features for podcaster profiles and posts. Twitch no longer lets you only show Featured clips.  Cloudflare lets you block AI training bots while still allowing crawling by the Googlebot, Applebot and Bingbot....

Hello readers! I hope you are enjoying the last days of summer. This week there’s updates to YouTube views counts, Stations, and AI claims, Twitch sponsorships, Google Search Preferred Sources, beehiiv, Facebook, LinkedIn and more. Top Updates YouTube will now count a “View” from the first frame long form videos. When someone stops to watch or clicks a thumbnail, that’s an Engaged View. YouTube is expanding Stations beyond music videos. They may include creator content, media channels and podcasts, and can appear in the Home Feed and Search on YouTube and YouTube Music. Twitch Affiliates can now access sponsorships. And all Partners and Affiliates can add Sponsorship Highlight clips to their Creator Profile. Google Search has published the code for an interactive Preferred Source button you can add to your website or blog. YouTube made it easier to manage AI Likeness claims on your cha...

Hello readers! This week there are updates for YouTube partners, Twitch streamers, Facebook, Instagram and X creators and more. Plus there’s a brand new Google Pixel phone with new Creator Suite features. My tip for the week : Set up your social properties (YouTube, Instagram, X, TikTok) in Search Console , and compare them to your on-platform metrics. ✉ Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email 🔴 Join Creator Weekly Live on Sunday Top Updates Tougher YouTube Partner Program eligibility requirements starting February 1. YouTube channel Managers will receive email notifications for copyright claims.  Ask YouTube is rolling out on mobile devices in the US.  Twitch now lets you opt out of training Amazon’s generative AI models.  Twitch lets you reward top gifters an exclusive badge. Twitch is rolling out comments o...

  Dear readers, this week there are new updates for creators, website owners, live streamers and more.  Google is letting YouTube, TikTok and Instagram creators customize their Search Profile and giving webmasters more information about their site’s appearance in AI Search results; Twitch is rolling out Dual Streaming and AI stream summaries; Facebook has a new AI creator assistant, and has added video replies. To watch this week: WWDC26, Apple’s annual developers conference, starts June 8. Watch the keynote live on the Apple YouTube channel. Get the Creator Weekly newsletter in your Inbox every Saturday. Join Creator Weekly live on Sunday. This Week’s Top Updates Google launched Creator Search Profiles . Creators with a significant following on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and X can set up a followable profile highlighting top content. At TwitchCon Rotterdam, Twitch announced the rollout of Dual Forma...