Peggy K's Creator News

Summer is officially here! Be sure to take a break now and again to enjoy the outdoors (this is also a reminder for me).  This week there are new limits on teens using social media, updates for YouTube Partners, Twitch Streamers, writers on Substack, Beehiiv, and Mastodon, Threads Communities, LinkedIn Profiles and more. Subscribe to the free Creator Weekly newsletter. Join Creator Weekly live on Sunday. Tip: If you live stream AND you are on Bluesky, be sure to set the LIVE badge on your profile. Learn how. Top Updates UK will ban social media for under-16s and limit live streaming for all under-18s. YouTube Partners can update Membership pricing every 12 months, and optionally use new smart pricing recommendations. Twitch rolled out Dual Format streaming to all, and 4K streaming to Affiliates and Partners. If you don’t want to set up Dual Format streaming yourself, use Streamlabs. Twitch h...

Hello dear readers, this week the World Cup tournament begins, with features for fans and creators. Plus there are creator updates for YouTube, Spotify, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, and more. 📰 Subscribe to the free Creator Weekly newsletter. 🔴 Join Creator Weekly live on Sunday. Top Updates There are World Cup features and content for creators and fans. Apple Podcasts will get better support for video podcasts on Macs and tvOS, editing with Apple Intelligence in Photos features, and more from WWDC 2026.  YouTube DMs have expanded to the US, Brazil and more countries. The YouTube Creator Responsibility Policy now prohibits using YouTube’s tools to create content that harms others (including spam). The YouTube Remix button has moved.  YouTube’s portrait mode mobile player has been simplified. You can now view non-music YouTube Shorts in picture-in-picture ...

  Dear readers, this week there are new updates for creators, website owners, live streamers and more.  Google is letting YouTube, TikTok and Instagram creators customize their Search Profile and giving webmasters more information about their site’s appearance in AI Search results; Twitch is rolling out Dual Streaming and AI stream summaries; Facebook has a new AI creator assistant, and has added video replies. To watch this week: WWDC26, Apple’s annual developers conference, starts June 8. Watch the keynote live on the Apple YouTube channel. Get the Creator Weekly newsletter in your Inbox every Saturday. Join Creator Weekly live on Sunday. This Week’s Top Updates Google launched Creator Search Profiles . Creators with a significant following on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and X can set up a followable profile highlighting top content. At TwitchCon Rotterdam, Twitch announced the rollout of Dual Forma...

Dear readers, would you pay for advanced creator features on your favorite platform? Meta is betting you will.  Plus YouTube has launched multiple updates (yes, mostly AI-related), Bluesky lets you highlight when you are live, people can set their favorite news sites and blogs as Preferred Sources for Google Search AI Mode, Patreon is adding profile profile features and more.  Tip of the week:   Create an avatar of yourself to use when you create videos in the Gemini app with Gemini Omni. Creating an avatar is also rolling out gradually to YouTube. Join me live: Creator Weekly is live on Sunday to discuss this week’s updates.  Top Updates YouTube lets you create your own custom feed (US only) Labels on realistic AI content on YouTube are more visible. And YouTube is getting better at detecting AI-generated content. Ask Studio chatbot in YouTube Studio can now remember multiple conversations f...