Recommendations drive a significant amount of the overall viewership on YouTube, even more than channel subscriptions or search. As my family shows, there’s an audience for almost every video, and the ...

15 years ago today, YouTube took a small step toward starting something big. On February 14, 2005, YouTube was registered as a website. Its founders wanted to create a way for people around the world ...

Designed for the big screen and Wii Remote, the new YouTube app for Nintendo Wii brings the YouTube videos and channels you love to your TV. Wii owners in the U.S ...

As we settle into 2021, many of us are still trying to process what we lived through over the past year: the heartbreaking attack on the U.S. Capitol, the pandemic, contentious election seasons, and ...

Managing misinformation and harmful conspiracy theories is challenging because the content is always shifting and evolving. To address this kind of content effectively, it’s critical that our teams ...

Listening to music on your Google Home speaker right out-of-the-box seems too good to be true, right? It’s not! Starting today, YouTube Music is offering a free experience with ads on Google Home ...

Editor’s note by Neal Mohan, Chief Product Officer: When the first YouTube video was uploaded in 2005, YouTube had a search bar and a list of video tags on its homepage. Since then, you could say ...

You asked, and we listened! Today, we’re announcing that Background Play and Downloads are coming to YouTube’s Premium Lite subscription service. Starting today ...

Today we’re sharing a few updates that will help parents tailor their family’s YouTube experience, especially for teen viewers: Parents can now help teens be even more intentional about how they watch ...

If you're currently subscribed to an unofficial artist channel, you will soon be subscribed to their Official Artist Channel and your subscription to any unofficial artist channels will become ...

Over the past few years, we’ve worked hard to build a suite of copyright management tools that gives rightsholders control of their copyrighted material on YouTube. These tools have allowed creativity ...

Editor's note by Neal Mohan, Chief Product Officer: Bringing Shorts to our community has transformed the way people create and watch video on YouTube. When we introduced this new format, we optimized ...