Peggy K's Creator News

  This week has updates for YouTube creators, WordPress publishers and more. And some interesting tech-related articles about the Olympics. Plus some generative AI updates for Google Photos, Meta creator chatbots and more. Listen to this newsletter Beehiiv just introduced audio transcriptions. If you are reading this in your email, you can click the Listen Online link at the top to open a new page with the audio player, and audio is also available in the newsletter’s Progressive Web App . If you are reading this on my site, you can open the post here to have it read to you. If you listen (the voice I chose is “Sarah”), let me know what you think. Thoughts on the current state of my social media One of the things I’ve been thinking about is the churn below the surface on social media. I recently set up Fedica (formerly Tweepsmap), mostly because it lets me schedule X Posts with polls. But one of the other things it does is monitor who is following ...

YouTube now allows Partners to appeal some policy violations seven days before monetization is disabled. Previously you could only submit an appeal after monetization was disabled, so there would be a period while monetization was suspended while the appeal was under review.  If you receive a notification that your YouTube channel's monetization is scheduled for suspension from the YouTube Partner Program, you can submit an appeal before monetization is suspended. If the appeal is successful, monetization will not be disabled.  Here's what you can do when receive a notice that your YouTube channel's monetization is scheduled for suspension : You can submit an appeal within 7 days of the notice .  Note that this process is not available for all monetization suspensions.  The appeal process may take up to 14 days. Monetization will not be disabled while the appeal is under review.  If your appeal is successful, ...

You might think that summertime means everyone is on holiday, but the reality is that tech and the world rolls on. The US presidential election is suddenly more exciting, and the Olympics kicked off in Paris. And there are updates for web publishers, video creators and more. Also, if you are receiving Creator Weekly by email,you can now get a phone app for easy reading. Scroll down for details. Top news and updates this week Beehiiv launched free newsletter apps for all users The Olympics are on! Google may not deprecate third-party cookies in Chrome Save music from YouTube Shorts for later use YouTube Shopping Affiliates can save items with the new YouTube Shopping extension Videos in Google Drive can now have automatic captions Upload an image as a custom TikTok thumbnail TikTok is integrated with Eventbrite for promoting in-person events Twitch clarified their sexual harassment policy Twitch is rolling out a new Clip creation tool Substack added post creation to their mobile...

Another weekend has rolled around, and it’s time for another update. I hope you aren’t being haunted by the Windows blue screen of death . This week the top stories are the launch of Google Vids, Google shutting down their goo.gl short links, new YouTube Shorts features, and more. Top news and updates this week If you have Google Workspace Labs on your account, try the new Google Vids. Google’s goo.gl short links will stop working next year. Check to see if you need to update your website or social media. The YouTube Shorts editor has a new text-to-speech tool and emoji kitchen effect, and may offer some thumbnail customization options in the near future. An AI training dataset includes YouTube video subtitles, scraped without permission. You can search to see whether your favorite creator’s (or your) videos were included. Vimeo updated their terms of service to require labeling of realistic AI-generated content. StreamYard is adding Dark Mode, Reusable Studios and 4k Local Recordin...

What’s happening this week? It seems like every platform wants to be a social network, with comments on Spotify podcasts, Substack pushing Notes, Beehiiv making it easier for people to like & comment. Plus YouTube is launching new tools in the Shorts editor, you can transfer your photos and videos between Google Photos and iCloud Photos, set up recording before your Meet meeting and more. Top news and updates this week Six new tools coming to the YouTube Shorts editor, including auto-generated captions. Long shut down Apple news site TUAW was relaunched with AI-generated articles under the original authors bylines New features are coming to StreamYard studio Instagram shared Reels tips Spotify is launching comments on podcasts What would happen if you disavow all backlinks to your website? Cyrus Shepherd tried it. You can now transfer your Google Photos library to Apple iCloud Photos and vice versa. There is a Threads bonus program, seemingly aimed at Instagram creators. Goo...