YouTube

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of something exciting for the amazing 9to5Google community: YouTube Channel Memberships! This is your chance to directly support the channel you love and unlock awesome perks and swag along the way.

YouTube has become a hub of some of the greatest talent in the entertainment industry, with rising stars that put out incredible content. But would you ever pay directly to watch your favorite YouTube channel?

YouTube videos streamed through Meta Quest may start looking sharper, as the app now supports streaming at 8K resolution.

A partial outage on YouTube is causing the subscriptions feed, YouTube TV’s library, and other functions to be unavailable tonight.

YouTube for Android TV is getting yet another UI tweak with an animated comment count in the info pill section to help highlight and improve interaction with videos while watching on displays.

Following the ad blocker crackdown, YouTube is explicitly going after third-party — often mobile — apps that let viewers skip advertising.

You may have noticed that YouTube for Android TV has been more aggressive in showing the “Ambient Display” screensaver over the past few weeks when video content is paused or left at the homepage.

While its look has been updated over the years, the core design of YouTube’s website hasn’t changed drastically in a long time. In a new test, though, YouTube.com is getting a big overhaul that pushes key elements to the sidebar, and no one seems to like it.

YouTube is one of the biggest streaming platforms, and we wanted to know how much content you consume per week. Here’s what you had to say.

Generative AI models are incredibly impressive, but they’re only as good as the data fed into them. Now, it’s been revealed that OpenAI used YouTube videos to train GPT-4, and YouTube says that was against the platform’s rules.

In a world where we have streaming services coming out of the wazoo, YouTube is arguably one of the biggest platforms, but not everyone uses it daily. It had me thinking how many hours do you watch YouTube per week?

YouTube’s Coachella streaming partnership continues in 2024 with a new multiview experience “so that viewers everywhere can watch up to 4 of the live stream stages on their TVs at once.”

After rolling out the dual-column layout for descriptions and comments, the YouTube app on TVs is prominently showcasing “key moments.” 

YouTube is consistently rolling out new features to a small set of users before they become widely available, known as “experiments.” The latest one called “jump ahead” skips to the best parts of a YouTube video for you.

After announcing the initiative late last year, YouTube is now launching its requirement for creators to disclose the use of “altered or synthetic” content which includes AI.

To date, YouTube on televisions has been a leanback experience focused on displaying fullscreen content. An upcoming redesign of YouTube video player for TVs adds more interactivity.

A major outage from Meta has taken down Facebook, Instagram, and other products, but it seems that some users are also seeing issues with some Google services.