Google's anti-adblocking banner on YouTube which prevents videos from playing is back. Opera, OperaGX, and Firefox may be affected. It could also be making Chrome slow.
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Google has launched a more affordable YouTube Premium tier, which offers a no-ads experience "on most videos" for nearly half the price.
To enhance viewer experience and retain more viewers to a video, YouTube is improving the quality of mid-roll ads by showing fewer ads that may feel disruptive to the viewer.
Multiple user reports claim they can't watch any YouTube video on their mobile devices or desktops. The company is working on a fix.
YouTube on Android TV will display lyrics for music videos, helping you sing correctly during karaoke nights.
YouTube has upgraded the Dream Screen for Shorts feature to support the more powerful Veo 2 video generation model.
YouTube will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2025, and the company's CEO has outlined its big bets for the year, highlighting key areas of focus and innovation.
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Alphabet's Q4 2024 earnings impress with 12% revenue growth fueled by AI advancements. CEO Sundar Pichai cites AI leadership and $75 billion investment planned for 2025.
YouTube Premium subscribers can now try out a host of new experimental features including 256kbps audio, up to 4x playback speeds, and more.
YouTube announced it will begin testing its likeness management technology early next year. It has partnered with Creative Arts Agency to get popular figures onboard.
The new 'Play something' floating action button aims to facilitate video discovery without the need to scroll or search.
The latest update pushed by Rivian adds Google Cast and YouTube app allowing users to get entertained inside their parked Rivian EVs.
YouTube announced that it will start a major crackdown against video titles and thumbnails that are clickbait in nature. The stricter rules will be enforced in India over the coming months.
YouTube is testing a new feature that will allow creators to reply to comments using their voice on iOS.
YouTube's new feature lets creators opt in to let third parties use their content to train AI models, addressing growing copyright fears.
YouTube's new "parent code" feature brings much-needed parental controls to its TV app, enabling parents to secure profiles and manage their children's viewing.
Next year, watching YouTube TV is going to get significantly expensive as YouTube has to keep up with the rising cost of content.
YouTube has shared the 2024 Recap for YouTube on TV, revealing that TV viewers watched over 1 billion hours of content daily on their living room devices across the globe.
YouTube Kids is gaining a host of new features, prominent among which is the support for vertical UI.
YouTube's auto-dubbing feature now lets viewers access content in different languages, with AI handling translations for creators.
YouTube is now testing a new multiplayer feature for a few select games on its YouTube Playables platform.
Similar to the desktop and web, the mobile app of YouTube Music now makes sharing specific moments of a song easier with timestamp sharing.
YouTube users have taken to r/YouTube to share their frustration over botched recommendations, with irrelevant videos flooding feeds.
YouTube has started rolling out the 2024 Music Recap compilation with new stats, better animation, improved photos, and more.
The Dream Screen feature on YouTube Shorts now lets you create AI-generated video backgrounds, previously limited to image backgrounds.
YouTube's new gift feature lets viewers support creators with virtual items, but it might remind some of another platform's strategy.
YouTube is testing a new AI feature that will let creators generate a unique 30-second soundtrack to use in their Shorts.
YouTube is testing a change to the swipe-down gesture. Now, it takes you to the next video instead of exiting the fullscreen mode.
YouTube has started to notify early adopters of Premium services that they will now have to pay equally as others.
YouTube for Android TV is getting a UI update that adds a prominent 'Subscribe' button to the main player UI.
After almost a year of announcement, YouTube Music has finally replaced the 'Listen Again' tab with 'Speed Dial' for recent favorite songs.
YouTube may soon make it easier to activate the bedtime reminder functionality in the Android application.
After being canceled over a year ago, the YouTube Premium Lite plan is back and is currently under testing in limited countries, except the US.
YouTube announced a bunch of improvements for its apps and services, including a new Sleep Timer, updates for the mini-player, and more.
It appears that YouTube Music is gradually rolling out the option to let users upload a custom image for playlists.
YouTube is currently testing a new "Save" button for Shorts that allows users to watch videos later but makes it difficult to dislike them.
YouTube for Android TV has tweaked the channel side menu, which now obscures less of the video you are watching.
YouTube has denied user's accusations that it is deliberately hiding the ad skip button on ads being displayed on the platform.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is considering a breakup of Google, targeting its Chrome browser and Android operating system, as potential remedies for the company's illegal search monopoly.
