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To celebrate 10 years of Creator Weekly, I’m sharing tech highlights from 2015 that still resonate 10 years later. This update was for the  week ending April 11, 2015 . Ten years ago this week, FriendFeed was shut down by Facebook.  Watch the recap video . What was FriendFeed? At it's heart FriendFeed was a feed aggregator. You could use it to follow any RSS feed, which included blogs (Blogger, Tumblr, Live Journal) and blog comments (BackType, Disqus), news (Digg, Mixx, Reddit), bookmarking (Delicious, Stumble upon), photos (Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa), videos (YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion), or music (Last.fm, Pandora).  It also was integrated with other social media sites,  particularly Twitter , which was apparently the most popular source of content . A draw was the platform's social features that let you share and comm...

This week TikTok is back in the news. Who in the US would buy it? It turns out no one, and TikTok got yet another 75 day extension. At least I don’t have to write about that for another couple months. Also this week, YouTube is updating their Shorts editor, there are new vertical video feeds from Skylight Social and Substack, Adobe Premiere Pro added new AI-powered features, plus updates for social media, AI tools and more. 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email. Top news and updates this week April Fools’ Day isn’t what it used to be New and improved YouTube Shorts editor is coming soon. TikTok’s deadline for US sale was April 5th, but has another 75 day reprieve. Skylight Social (on Bluesky’s atproto platform) and Substack woo TikTok users with vertical video. Instagram’s CapCut alternative video editor Edits will be available - for free - this month. YouTube updates Course requirements to ensure quality. Substack added livestream scheduling and “Music Mode”. Spotify p...

To celebrate 10 years of Creator Weekly, I’m sharing tech highlights from 2015 that still resonate 10 years later. This update was for the  week ending April 4, 2015 . Watch the recap video. Ten years ago this week big tech companies like Google created elaborate jokes and product Easter eggs for April Fools' Day. These weren’t just quick jokes. There were elaborately produced videos. There were detailed articles. There were new buttons and functions in products, just for a day.  And some were pretty amusing.  2015 Tech April Fools' Day Pranks YouTube Goes All in on Sandstorm by Darude Reddit discovered YouTube's 2015 April Fools' prank To put you in the right frame, Sandstorm by Darude  is a piece of electronic dance music that was used as background music in a lot of gaming videos. It turned into a meme as t...

It’s the last week of March and there are tons of updates this week. There are updates for YouTubers, Twitch streamers, website owners, newsletter writers, plus Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, X and more. 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email. Top news and updates this week YouTube metrics change: A Shorts View will count when a Short starts playing, rather than when someone watches the Short. This is comparable with other short-form video platform metrics. YouTube is testing reduced push notifications to prevent people from turning off notifications altogether. Twitch published Advertiser-Friendly Content Guidelines to help monetizing creators understand how their content may affect revenue. YouTube has added a “take a break” option for live streams, showing a pre-recorded video or ads. You can now see your subscribers in the YouTube mobile app. You can access the YouTube AI Inspiration tab from content and comments in YouTube Studio, and bookmark your favorite suggest...

To celebrate 10 years of Creator Weekly, I’m sharing tech highlights from 2015 that still resonate 10 years later. This update was for the  week ending March 21, 2015 . Ten years ago this week, everyone was talking about the new mobile live streaming apps Periscope and Meerkat. Meerkat launched in February 2015. Periscope was founded in 2014, and was acquired by Twitter before its public launch in March of that year. The apps made it incredibly easy to go live. You didn't need to have a fancy camera or understand live streaming settings. All you needed to do was launch the app and tap a couple of buttons. People started really buzzing about the apps during the SXSW festival , which was 10 years ago this week.  Why? Twitter tried to kill Meerkat.  OK, maybe kill is too strong a word. But part of what got people talking was that Twitter cut Meerkat off from their social graph. When Meerkat laun...

Spring has sprung, flowers are in bloom , and tech companies shared lots of updates. I suspect it’s the “launch by the end of Q1” rush. This week there are updates for video on YouTube and LinkedIn, for live streamers from Twitch, Kick, and Restream, for publishers using Ghost and AdSense, and for social users on Bluesky and Threads. Plus a bunch of Gemini and other AI updates. Pour yourself a cup of coffee or tea and dig in! 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email. Top news and updates this week YouTube improved the video copyright claims details page in YouTube Studio. YouTube has improved the member content feed on mobile. YouTube is experimenting with text and sticker placement guides in the Shorts editor. YouTube is testing an option to let viewers hide video end screens. YouTube is asking some creators to help build AI protection tools. YouTube also answered more questions about the upcoming mid-roll update, recapped top updates in the past year, and shared details abo...