Jimmy Broadbent was working late at night on April 14 when everything suddenly went dark. He is one of many people who professionally stream games on YouTube’s livestream service, with over 86,000 ...

YouTube’s proprietary AI algorithm is at the heart of the company’s success, and it’s secrecy is key to continued Internet video dominance. However, a recent report from Mozilla, found YouTube’s ...

New research from Mozilla shows that user controls have little effect on which videos YouTube’s influential AI recommends. YouTube’s recommendation algorithm drives 70% of what people watch on the ...

Is your YouTube viewership down? You’re not alone. It’s normal for watch patterns to change around this time of year. The company explains why. In a new video from project manager Rachel, who works on ...

Almost every day, YouTube’s engineers experiment on us without our knowledge. They tweak video recommendations for subsets of users, review the results, and tweak again. Ideally, YouTube wants more ...

Mark Sargent saw instantly that his situation had changed for the worse. A voluble, white-haired 52-year-old, Sargent is a flat-earth evangelist who lives on Whidbey Island in Washington state and ...

If Nielsen stats are to be believed, we collectively spend more time in front of YouTube than any other streaming service—including Disney+ and Netflix. That's a lot of watch hours, especially for an ...

Toddlers crave power. Too bad for them, they have none. Hence the tantrums and absurd demands. (No, I want this banana, not that one, which looks identical in every way but which you just started ...

Nearly 2 billion people visit YouTube every month to watch the 500 hours of video that are uploaded every minute. While these staggering numbers mean there are a lot of eyes just waiting to watch your ...

As an aspiring YouTube superstar myself, I’ve been following the progress of a very young but already well-established YouTube superstar by the name of Graham Stephan. Graham Stephan, YouTuber and ...

YouTube demystifies the Shorts algorithm in a Q&A video that addresses several of the most common questions creators have about gaining visibility with short-form content. We know at least some ...