Excellent, and welcome back to WA. You are going to be fully equipped to thrive in 2026 with the benefits that are available within the Premium Plus+ membership and I look forward to seeing what you accomplish.

Welcome back Yuriy!

Welcome back - you will be amazed at all the improvements and new tools.

Thanks for your feedback here, and your ideas make sense. We are going to be very heavily focused on the image creation and platform here as that is where a great deal of the opportunity exists.

The blogging to SEO days are waning, and there are new ways and LOTS of new opportunities that are spinning out of the idea of us ALL being able to create anything that we can imagine, and do so in a proficient manner.

And yes, we are thinking of ways we can incorporate labels into the image tool. There could be 20 different uses for ONE aspect ratio, so we have to be careful about labelling them something specific. Perhaps we let the users label them accordingly.

And there will be no need to use Canva with the latest roll out, Canva is going to become an obsolete platform in the coming year (in particular for members here within WA). Branding should be an easy add right now into an image though, so if you are unable to then perhaps it is the prompting that you are using.

I have to disagree that blogging is waning. It’s changed, yes, but it hasn’t declined. Instead, blogging has become more specialist, where expertise in a specific field matters far more than ever. In sectors like mine, finance and wealth, blogging is arguably more important now than ever because people are actively searching for expert insight, not surface-level content. With my blogs, I'm seeing new international markets finding my content, following me and downloading my resources.

That said, blogging no longer works in isolation. It has to be part of a wider ecosystem that includes video, graphics, newsletters, and even podcasts. All of these pieces support each other.

On the branding issue — I uploaded my brand as a PNG and asked Image Studio to add it to the images. Instead of placing my version, it generates a new version. It may be a prompt limitation, or it may be the way the tool interprets branding images, but I haven’t yet found a prompt that makes it use the exact brand asset I uploaded - even ChatGPT has been unable to provide a prompt that get's my brand onto the image.

Yeah, you will be able to do. You can already do this, we have updated the image widget across the entire platform, and it now includes your AI images. (see attached).

We have also improved the automated images within articles as well, they are much higher quality now.

And yes, we have plans for video. Quality video is incredibly expensive, so currently someone would want a budget of $100+ per month if they were active creating videos alone (minimum). We don't want to integrate a video environment (or any for that matter) without leveraging the best quality out there which comes with a price.

Kyle did recently state that the new upgrade will be out within hours days possibly as late next week. Hopefully this will be one of the improvements that they make. I know they’re focusing on words to text for diagrams and info graphics.

Higher resolution is coming this next week, and likely we are going to be offering 4K capabilities soon (of course that may come with a higher cost because of the expense). But this is something that we are working one. ;)

Great news - thanks 🙏🏻

Once you’re in the Black Friday pricing you’re grandfathered at that rate for as long as you’re a member.

As Eric indicated, you are not subject to a price increase. So you will be paying the $497 in subsequent years, so you will be grandfathered into that pricing along with retaining your 60,000 monthly AI credits moving forward as well. :)

You made the cut for the homepage, nice work Elyta (and you have been doing some really creative work with the Image Studio). The thing is as AI advances, our platform is moving just as quickly and the capability of the community here is moving at this lightening speed.

As mentioned, we already have a significant release this upcoming week that is going to take the Image Studio to new heights.

Not to mention the Article Designer, that now has improved in-line imagery. It is becoming more and more efficient to "create", which leaves more and more time for folks to be creative instead of working on mundane tasks. These are exciting times and I look forward to seeing what you accomplish in 2026!

Yes, I experienced the improvement in the Article Designer before I had the chance to watch your video yesterday. It was a great surprise.

Bring on 2026!