Peggy K's Creator News

This week I’m celebrating rebirth and renewal with Easter on Sunday and Earth Day on Tuesday. If you celebrate I hope you have a joyous holiday. What’s new? YouTube rolled out automatic dubbing to more channels, Twitch gave creators more time to save their Highlights, Patreon launched live streaming, Medium explained the importance of a diversity for their platform, and lots more. 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email. Top news and updates this week All YouTube Partner Program channels can enable automatic dubbing between English and 8 other languages. The Creators Guild of America created a contract rider to protect the legal and creative rights of content creators. YouTube is gamifying Gifting with Gift Combos. YouTube will age-restrict some violent scripted content. Patreon launched live streaming for creators. Twitch postpones enforcement of its new 100 hour Highlights limit. TikTok is testing Footnotes, its version of Community Notes. CapCut Commerce Pro is now 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 18, 2015 .  Ten years ago this week, Google shut down Helpouts.  Helpouts: A platform for experts to sell their expertise Helpouts Home Page in 2013. Note both free and paid Help outs were available.  Helpouts launched in 2013 with a simple premise: What if getting help for a computer glitch, a leaky pipe, or a homework problem was as easy as clicking a button?  This was not Google's first platform for connecting people with questions and experts with answers.  Google Answers launched in 2003 and shut down in 2006, apparently unable to compete with the similar Yahoo Answers (which shut down in 2021 ). There are similar platforms still running today, like Quora and Stack Overflow . What set Helpouts apart was that it connected peo...

If you aren’t keen on generative AI-powered tools, then maybe skip this week’s updates, because it’s all about AI. Productivity met creativity at two big tech conferences this week. Google Cloud Next, with updates for Google Cloud and Workspace, focused more on the productivity side and Canva Create focused more on the creativity side. But with Google highlighting video creation models and Canva launching a splashy new spreadsheet tool, the boundaries are blurring. Plus there were updates for Google Search AI Mode, the latest version of Davinci Resolve has a suite of AI-powered tools, and Adobe announced their vision for incorporating agentic AI into their products.. If you don’t want to read about AI, check out the other updates for YouTube, Threads, Bluesky and X. 📨 Subscribe to get Creator Weekly by email. Top news and updates this week At Google Cloud Next , Google announced updates to its creative generative AI models Veo 2 (video), Lyria (music), Imagen 3 (images), Chirp...

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...