YouTube is borrowing a page from X (Twitter) and adding a community notes feature ahead of the 2024 US election. The company wants the short viewer-created blurbs to add relevant context to videos, such as pointing out misinformation or old footage passed off as new.
YouTube quietly snuck in a policy change that will age-restrict some gun-related videos and bar others altogether. Content featuring homemade and automatic firearms will be banned for viewers under 18, while tutorials for removing safety devices will be prohibited regardless of age.
YouTube Music for Android is releasing a tool that lets you hum a song to search for it. Users can also actually sing the tune or even play it on an instrument.
YouTube said it would comply with an order blocking access to videos of Hong Kong’s protest anthem inside the region. The decision comes after an appeals court banned the protest song “Glory to Hong Kong,” which the largely China-controlled government predictably framed as a national security issue.
Manhattan's District Attorney wants to meet with YouTube's CEO to discuss why the website allows the posting of videos on how to manufacture "ghost guns" and why its algorithm is pushing them to underage viewers who watch video game content.
The Google-owned video platform has announced that it's "strengthening [its] enforcement on third-party apps that violate" its Terms of Service, "specifically ad-blocking apps."
A report by The New York Times claims both OpenAI and Google transcribed videos from YouTube and used these texts to train their AI models, possibly violating copyrights. OpenAI reportedly transcribed more than one million hours of YouTube videos.
YouTube is hyping its exclusive Coachella streaming coverage starting next week. The headlining feature is the platform’s multiview experience for the two-weekend festival. Our question from this announcement is, who needs that?
Federal authorities in the US asked Google for the names, addresses, telephone numbers and user activity of the accounts that watched certain YouTube videos between January 1 and 8, 2023, according to unsealed court documents viewed by Forbes.
Nineteen years after Jawed Karim uploaded the very first YouTube video, the awkward, 19-second clip in front of San Diego Zoo’s elephant enclosure is memorable today only because of what it represents.
YouTube creators now have to disclose if a realistic-looking video "is made with altered or synthetic media, including generative AI." The label rules don't apply to "clearly unrealistic" content.
Popular YouTuber Dunkey started a game publishing company called Bigmode and the first title releases on May 9. Animal Well is a Metroidvania platformer coming to the Switch, PC and PlayStation consoles.
YouTube is rolling out a redesign of its app on TVs, with an increased emphasis on shopping and the comment feed. The video feed also looks to be shrinking a bit.
YouTube just announced a new tool for its short-form content, otherwise called Shorts, that lets people remix music videos. This is happening just as Taylor Swift and other Universal artists are leaving the rival app TikTok.
Google reportedly plans to develop a YouTube app for the Apple Vision Pro. The Verge says a YouTube spokesperson confirmed the company plans to make a native Vision Pro app, while it optimizes YouTube for Safari as a stopgap.