Update: YouTube issued an update noting that the homepage was back, but the team was working on a ‘full fix’. YouTube was reportedly down. (Unsplash) “An issue with our recommendations system ...

PCWorld reports that YouTube is deliberately disabling core features like comments and descriptions for users with active ad blockers installed. These aggressive anti ...

More websites and messenger apps are becoming inaccessible in Russia. While users look for ways around government bans, others wonder what will ultimately remain of the internet. Russia's internet ...

Following YouTube’s recent Google Labs AI-generated “Portraits” tests, the social video-sharing platform is now planning to bring AI-generation to Shorts, allowing creators to post videos using their ...

Last year, like 2024, 2023, and, well, probably most years since 2005, was the Year of YouTube. The video platform has become massively successful in every dimension: It’s got at least 2.5 billion ...

What just happened? In a move that will be welcomed by many people, YouTube has introduced several new search filters to the platform that allow users to, among other things, exclude Shorts from their ...

TL;DR: YouTube now uses AI to automatically upscale videos below 1080p to HD, improving viewing on high-resolution displays. Creators can opt out, and viewers can disable upscaling, which is labeled ...

TL;DR: YouTube is updating its video player with a cleaner, more immersive design inspired by Apple's iOS changes, featuring modernized seek controls, improved app fluidity, animated custom likes, ...

YouTube said it has paid out over $100 billion to creators, artists and media companies since 2021. The number of YouTube channels making more than $100,000 from TV screens jumped 45% year over year, ...

The world’s largest and most influential video platform wants to persuade a lot more content creators to broadcast live. By Jessica Testa The company that pushed podcasts from our earbuds to our ...

YouTube has started testing a new collaboration feature, similar to Instagram's and TikTok's. A Google employee explained on YouTube Help that it will allow creators to add collaborators to a video so ...

For years, Russian tech regulators have gnashed their teeth at the reach of YouTube, the video platform that is a major source of largely uncensored news, information, and entertainment -- not to ...