Peggy K's Creator News

  Earlier today  Mark Zuckerberg announced  that Meta would be making big changes to moderation on Facebook, Instagram and Threads, the name of “free expression”. One the one hand, there have been problems with Meta’s mostly automated moderation, and it is good if they are addressing that by hiring additional people for content review. But it’s pretty clear that Meta’s updated Community Standards and moderation policies are designed to align with the incoming Trump administration. The updated content policies mostly focus on allowing content around gender, sexuality and immigration that was previously prohibited as hate speech. Meta is also removing third party fact checking in the US in favor of Community Notes. In a video statement , Zuckerberg calls out “governments and legacy media” that supposedly have been pushing censorship, and suggests that these changes are meant to push back against that and promote free expression. Right. It’s not clear how bad this ...

Hello all! I hope you had an excellent new year’s celebration. Mine was with my family at home, and pretty quiet.. We watched the fireworks on TV and around the neighborhood where enthusiastic folks were setting them off. There wasn’t much news this week, which gave me time to finish my end-of-year roundups. Read on for all the details. 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email. Top news and updates this week 10 years of Creator Weekly! A look back at 2015. The top YouTube updates of 2024. Honey scams affiliate revenue. Outrage about AI-generated Instagram profiles. YouTube requires advanced feature verification to create new channels. YouTube advertiser friendly guidelines prohibit instructions for AI-generated nudity. Bluesky now shows trending topics 2024 recaps from Bluesky, X, and Google AI. More reading about AI power use, the woman who keeps the “most indispensable machine in the world” running, music videos, problems with passkey technology and the war on Wikipedia. Ten Year...

It’s that time again! Here are my top YouTube updates in 2024. Just about every year since I started my weekly creator recap I have rounded up the biggest changes for YouTube and other Google products. It turns out 2024 was a big year! Note that YouTube is constantly running tests. I mention a few in my summary, but I have mostly focused on features that have launched. Creator Features YouTube Shorts Live Streaming YouTube on TV AI-Powered Features Podcasts Community Guidelines and Policy Updates Monetization My top updates feed right into the Creator Trends for 2024 and into 2025. The new thumbnail test and compare tool i n YouTube Studio. My 2025 wish? Title testing too. The Community tab being made available to all channels, and expanded testing of new Community features. Hopefully the new Communities will be more widely available i...

Ten years ago this week, on January 3, 2015, I published t he first issue  of the Creator Weekly.  My original focus was Google products, and it's meant I've had a front row seat for all the changes over the past decade.  Since its humble beginnings as a roundup of my Google+ posts, it's expanded to include updates and news for video creators, bloggers, website owners and social media across platforms. As I noted last week , there is a core group of readers who at least open almost every newsletter email. I'm so grateful! I hope you all find this look back over the past decade interesting. Beginnings on Google+ Back in the twenty-teens, my main platform was Google+ , and my weekly news recap was a roundup of my Google+ posts from the previous week.  At the time, there wasn't an easy way to browse posts on Google+. You could scroll through someone's profile, but I posted a fair amount, and it was a lot of tr...

2024 is finally coming to a close, and 2025 promises to be an interesting year. The tech companies are (mostly) quiet this week, and so I wanted to use this opportunity to share my 2024 highlights and then take a look at trends from 2024 that I think will continue through 2025. You can find my personal 2024 recap here . Here are the things I’ve been noodling on: 2004 was "the beginning of the future", will 2024 stand out 20 years from now? AI in everything, but at whose expense? Fan support: Paid subscriptions and communities The open social web versus walled gardens Creating videos for the little screen (phones) and big screen (TVs) I plan a more traditional “here’s what happened” recap for next week. What will we remember in 20 years? 2004 was an exciting year in tech. We didn’t know it at the time, but huge chunks of the internet we use today were launched 20 years ago. Facebook , Gmail , and Firefox all launched that year. You coul...