YouTube

YouTube has a couple of new updates for both creators and viewers, with the introduction of AI-powered protections for teen viewers launching just as the site rolls back some of its more controversial profanity restrictions.

YouTube is starting to implement GenAI into its Shorts creation hub, with new features like photo-to-video generation and an arsenal of AI-powered video effects powered by the company’s second-best generation model. Not to mention, YouTube’s new AI Playground adds full-on content generation.

YouTube launched the Trending page in 2015, and is now planning to retire it as people’s viewing and discovery habits have changed.

YouTube is rolling out, or at least widely testing, a new video player design for its web experience that feels much different.

The AI takeover of search continues, with YouTube now testing out a nearly full-screen AI overview page for video search results.

YouTube is updating its live streaming age restrictions in July, but will still allow for younger teenagers to appear on the website when accompanied by an adult.

Google has reportedly cut Google TV’s budget by a significant margin. This comes as the company is preparing to bring Google Gemini to the platform later this year, as well as make a bigger push for improvements to YouTube.

YouTube continues its war on ad blockers, recently showing a notice that confirms videos are slightly slowed down for ad blocker users, while the platform is preparing for longer ad formats.

YouTube has no plans to quell AI content. In fact, it’s making it all the more possible to upload and view artificially produced videos with a dedicated Veo 3 integration in YouTube Shorts.

If you’ve recently been experiencing YouTube crashes on your smartphone, Google has a fix in store — though iOS users might need to do a little more than update.

Nielsen’s TV viewership numbers for May are official, and for the first time ever, streaming is more popular than broadcast and cable TV combined, with YouTube leading the charge.

We’re about to kick off the second full year of NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube and YouTube TV, and the prices have been official detailed with no price hike this year, but some new discounts available.

The Nintendo Switch 2 has arrived, but it’s missing some apps, including a YouTube app. That will be fixed “soon” though, Google says.

YouTube looks to be facing an outage, as down reports spike and the website looks to be operational for some users.

YouTube is in a war against ad blockers, with its latest move seemingly closing a loophole in Firefox, and people just keep complaining about it.

YouTube Premium was never supposed to be the tier that rids the site of ads. Instead, it’s an option offered by Google to users who want a trimmed experience for less money than a full Premium experience costs. In a change to some regions, Google reiterates that YouTube Premium Lite is going to start seeing ads in new spots.

Google is looking into a new bug in the YouTube app that hides a critical element of the app’s UI. The bug hides YouTube’s navigation bar, leaving users with no way to access certain pages.

Google has announced that Lens is coming to YouTube Shorts, starting with a beta that’s going live now.

YouTube teased a “little refresh” of the mobile app’s miniplayer earlier this week, and this update is now rolling out on Android and iOS. This follows the “feedback” people sent in after the October launch.