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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.

With 1 billion monthly podcast users, YouTube now offers a Weekly Top Podcast Shows chart in the US.

During its “Brandcast” this week, YouTube revealed a new strategy to insert ads into videos which will leverage AI to put those ads into the most important parts of a video.

The NFL has announced that YouTube and YouTube TV will be the exclusive broadcasters for its Week 1 game held in Brazil, meaning the game will only be watchable through Google’s products for the first time, and, it’s free.

After being announced recently, the YouTube app for TVs is widely rolling out a few changes including a dedicated Shorts feed that lives at the top of the subscriptions page.

YouTube Premium has been expanding in a couple of ways over the last years, including adding tiers for families and students. A new YouTube Premium tier has appeared in select regions for groups of just two people, coming in at a lower cost than the full-fledged five-person offering.