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This is a great week for iOS device users, with new apps for video editing (Premiere, YouTube Create) and Instagram. There’s also updates for everyone on Twitch, Threads, Bluesky, Discord, TikTok and more. Read on! 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email. Top news and updates this week To try this week: Four YouTube metrics you should understand and Androidify yourself. Promote your YouTube Community by getting a shareable link for the community or re-sharing a community post. The YouTube Create video editing app is now available for iPhones (in Canada). There’s a new free Adobe Premiere app for iPhone, with an Android version coming some time in the future. Threads now lets you add text attachments with up to 10,000 characters. But use with caution, because they are locked into the platform. There is finally a dedicated Instagram app for iPad. The bigger screen design will be coming soon to Android tablets. The Google Photos Create tab is rolling out in the US, as a sin...

Dear readers, I hope you are having a fabulous summer weekend! This week there are updates from YouTube, Bluesky, Instagram, Mastodon, X, Google’s Veo 3 video model, Gmail, Google Drive and more. 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email. Top news and updates this week YouTube is killing the Trending tab, but still has music, podcast and movie trailer charts. YouTube made a minor monetization policy update for inauthentic content. Yes, you can monetize content made with AI tools. TikTok may or may not be creating a US-only app and there may or may not be a deal for it to be sold to US owners. TikTok Sans font is now available to everyone for free. YouTube channels in the YouTube Partner Program can share channel and audience insights with brands and advertisers. There are now 10-year YouTube Membership loyalty badges. Edits by Instagram now has Voice Enhancement, sharing to other apps, more Insights and an improved Imagine tab. Google’s Veo 3 text-to-video model can now g...

  With the US Independence Day holiday, this week’s creator news roundup is a bit more compact than usual. There are updates for video creators, live streamers, bloggers and other web publishers, and social media. 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email..      Top news and updates this week YouTube Analytics lets you compare new, casual and regular viewer behavior. YouTube “Most Relevant” comment filters are available on all channels. YouTube is making a minor change to the YouTube Partner Program policies to better identify spammy mass produced content. YouTube Top Fan live chat Leaderboards are available on all channels. Substack will now automatically generate clips from live streams that are shared to Notes and (optionally) uploaded to YouTube Shorts. StreamYard has a new People tab to manage guests, and improved interface for adding backgrounds, overlays and videos. Restream now lets you record (rather than broadca...

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...

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...