YouTube employees admitted that their goal was “viewer addiction” and killed proposed safety tools for kids because they wouldn’t provide a sufficient “ROI” — financial lingo for “return on investment ...

YouTube now hosts over 5 billion videos, with the equivalent of 500 hours of content uploaded every minute. Perhaps that's why YouTube is surpassing both Netflix and TV networks in total watch time.

YouTube vice president of engineering Cristos Goodrow was pressed to defend the company's self-styled "big, hairy, audacious goal," set more than a decade ago, to increase viewer time to more than a ...

A landmark social media addiction trial resumed Monday with a YouTube executive insisting that the Google-owned company's aim was to give people value, not hook them on harmful binge-viewing. YouTube ...

Over half of YouTube’s U.K. audience watches via a television set, according to the latest viewing habits report from U.K. ratings body Barb. According to the report, published today, while almost ...

ESPN and YouTube TV contract expired on Oct. 30, leaving Disney's catalog off the service. Fans have missed major games, including “Monday Night Football.” Week 9's game between the Cowboys and ...

This week, tech content creators began to suspect that AI was making it harder to share some of the most highly sought-after tech tutorials on YouTube, but now YouTube is denying that odd removals ...

As part of an AI-focused reorganization, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan told employees that it will offer voluntary buyouts, according to an internal company memo. At the same time, he emphasized that there ...

YouTube’s streak as TV’s top media distributor continued in July, with the company capturing 13.4% of TV viewing. The company established its largest lead to date over its streaming and legacy media ...

Any hobbyist can produce videos and upload them on YouTube to share with the world. But as a small-business owner, you also can produce tutorials to make money, which can be an effective source of ...

YouTube’s new viewer segmentation replaces the returning viewers metric YouTube is introducing new detailed categories based on long-term engagement. The update supports creators in building stronger ...

As younger audiences drift away from traditional cable, top news networks are ramping up their presence on YouTube — and Fox News has surged ahead in the digital arms race. Fox News has more than ...