Peggy K's Creator News

Hello creators! I hope you are enjoying the waning days of summer. This week there are updates for web publishers, YouTubers, TikTok, Edits, Facebook, Bluesky and more.  📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email.. Top news and updates this week Google age verification of teens could affect AdSense and AdMob publisher revenue. Google has been using large language model AI to fight invalid ad traffic. Publishers can ask readers to make their site a Preferred Source for Google Search Top Stories. The imminent demise of goo.gl short links will affect academic publications. YouTube Posts can now have up to 10 images (rather than five). YouTube videos with automatic dubbing in to other languages can now be edited with the auto-dubs regenerated. YouTube Promote ad campaigns now have more options for the call to action. TikTok updated its Community Guidelines. AI-generated content must be labeled, but content that misleads about “matters of public importance” or is “harmful to...

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...

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...

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...