Peggy K's Creator News

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...

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 June 20, 2015. In June 2015 the First Draft Coalition launched, with support from Google and and news organizations.  First Draft Connected Journalists and Misinformation Researchers First Draft on Medium , June 2015 By 2015 smartphones were common, at least in the US. Most adults carried a camera with video recording in their pocket or purse all the time.  That meant there were more eyewitness photos and video of unfolding events than ever before.  The First Draft Coalition was a group of “thought leaders and pioneers in social media journalism to create educational resources on how to verify eyewitness media, and how to consider the ethics of using it in news reporting”. They also helped coordinate sharing information between journalists, fact-checking organizations ...

Another week, another tech developer conference. Among Apple’s announcements this week were new creative tools that sound pretty sweet. Plus there are video updates for YouTube, Instagram Edits and Twitch, updates to the Google Photos and Snapseed image editors, bad news for webmasters, and more. 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email. Top news and updates this week Among the announcements at the Apple WWDC were updated AirPods that support studio-quality audio recording and camera controls, calligraphy on the iPad, and a variety of AI tools (of course). YouTube highlights Posts in the Shorts feed. YouTube makes it easier to Promote your videos in the Android app. Sync your video and photo clips to music in the YouTube Shorts editor. Generate short video clips with audio with Veo 3 in Google Vids . Use AI filters to Restyle videos in the Edits by Instagram video editing app. If you don’t use Edits , you can AI-style your videos at meta.AI Edits now has a built-in tele...

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 June 13, 2015. In June 2015 the once-popular Friendster social network shut down. But it's back! Can it succeed this time around?  Social Networking Pioneer Friendster  Friendster Beta in 2003 let you connect with other people through networks of friends The Friendster social network launched in March 2003, five months before MySpace and almost a year before Facebook. It had the features you would expect from a social site, including sharing posts and photos, commenting and interacting with other members, finding events, and even dating. It was popular! Apparently Google even offered to purchase Friendster , but was shot down, a move that was supposedly one of the "biggest blunders" in Silicon Valley . But behind the scenes there were apparently technical and manage...

We are in the midst of tech company convention season. This week it was TwitchCon, with a slew of new features Twitch will be rolling out this year. Next week it’s the Apple WWDC. After Google I/O and last week’s slew of YouTube updates it’s not surprising they are a bit quiet this week. What we do have are future-looking updates from Twitch, post visibility customization options for your Reddit profile, free Photoshop for Android, Bing’s new Sora AI-powered video creator and more. 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email. Top news and updates this week News from TwitchCon : Dual format & 2K streaming, easier Clips creation, Rewind a stream, and more Twitch makes it easier to become an Affiliate Choose which posts and comments appear on your Reddit profile Use the new Sora-powered Bing Video Generator for free. YouTube blurs thumbnails in the results of “sensitive” searches. Edits video editor by Instagram has new transitions, more precise clip trimming On your iPhone...

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 June 6, 2015. In 2015 Google launched an account hub where you could "control, protect, and secure your account, all  in one place." My "My Account" page in 2015 (yes, I keep screenshots of everything) Ten years ago this week Google launched the "My Account" site at myaccount.google.com . This was a central hub for your account settings, history, privacy tools and security tools. As Google put it, "My Account gives you quick access to the settings and tools that let you safeguard your data, protect your privacy, and decide how your information can make Google tools and services work better for you." Privacy Checkup   Security Checkup Manage your history for Sea...