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That old YouTube video you love and keep going back to watch? It's about to look a lot better. Also: Long YouTube video? This free AI tool finds the good parts for you - here's how The TV screen is YouTube's fastest-growing surface, the company says, so it's making some improvements. In a blog post detailing several changes coming to the platform for TV viewers, YouTube announced that it will use AI to generate higher resolution for videos.

Kids watch a lot of YouTube. Google's keenly aware of that: It offers a version of the YouTube app that's explicitly made for children's content in YouTube Kids, and earlier this year, rolled out a controversial AI-based age estimation system to automatically flag accounts that may be used by minors. These measures are meant in part to help Google avoid legal trouble - like a 2019 class-action suit filed in California accusing Google and YouTube of violating privacy laws by collecting information about minors

Daniel Naroditsky was raised in San Mateo County -- started as a child prodigy and quickly became one of the most influential voices in the chess world. "It's really a tragedy for the whole chess community," said Alex Robins, Chess Director at the Mechanics' Institute. People in the Bay Area chess community are heartbroken following the unexpected death of Daniel Naroditsky. "It's a huge loss. He played here as recently as about a year ago," said Robins.

I'm very conscious of the fact that ABC pays for the show, and YouTube pays nothing - and YouTube gets to sell it and keep half the money. That's quite a deal for them,

According to YouTube posts, the celebrity tributes were plentiful. They came from Ed Sheeran, Eminem, Taylor Swift, Celine Dion, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Post Malone, Dax, Lil Wayne, Jelly Roll, Selena Gomez, Justin Bieber and Imagine Dragons. But none of them were real. They were all generated using artificial intelligence. And they often featured fake thumbnail images that showed the artists in tears or with mournful expressions.

Anika Nilles has been announced as RUSH's drummer for their upcoming reunion tour, which will mark the band's first shows in 11 years, and first concerts since the passing of the legendary Neil Peart in 2020. Rather than tap a well-known name to fill Peart's shoes, RUSH opted for a relative unknown in Nilles, a 42-year-old German virtuoso who comes from a family of drummers.

YouTube is expanding its live-stream Gift Goals to all creators in the U.S., while it's also got some improvements to its auto-dubbing option, which will make your alternative language variations more appealing. which enables creators to incentivize donations during a live-stream, by offering a reward at a certain donation threshold. announced that it was testing this with selected live-stream creators last month, and now, it's making live-stream gift goals available to all eligible creators in the U.S. Gift goals can help you build your community by encouraging your viewers to work towards a common mission. Once you reach your goal, you can celebrate with your community in a variety of creative ways."

In part two of How YouTube Ate TV, Fast Company 's oral history of YouTube, we look at how the company's rapid ascent after its 2005 founding led to multiple challenges, from bandwidth costs to unhappy copyright holders. This prompted the startup to consider selling itself, and on October 9, 2006, Google announced that it would be buying it, for $1.65 billion. That deal came with the promise that the web giant would help YouTube scale up even further without micromanaging it. Eventually, the balance they struck between integration and independence paid off. But when YouTube was still a tiny, plucky startup, nobody was looking that far ahead.

YouTube is the most powerful platform in entertainment, and as such it has outsize influence on what kind of entertainment people make and watch. When YouTube adds a mid-video ad break, videos get longer to accommodate it. When YouTube tells podcasters to make video, podcasters make video. And for its next act, it appears the company is prepared to turn all its creators into livestreamers.

But over its first 20 years, YouTube didn't just survive-it revolutionized media, redefining what TV could be. By letting anyone upload video for free, it empowered a new generation of creators to cater to every imaginable audience and attract fan bases in the millions. It taught marketers to appreciate the value of reaching these viewers, and it used technology to give rights holders control over their content. The platform conquered PCs and then smartphones and was eventually available on nearly every new TV set.

Google figured out early on that video would be a great addition to its search business, so in 2005 it launched Google Video. Focused on making deals with the entertainment industry for second-rate content, and overly cautious on what users could upload, it flopped. Meanwhile, a tiny startup run by a handful of employees working above a San Mateo, California, pizzeria was exploding, simply by letting anyone upload their goofy videos and not worrying too much about who held copyrights to the clips.

You know how it is. You got your phone, I've filmed it and gone, 'Look at the state of this garden. I'm going to sort this garden out'

The most likely explanation seems to be that YouTube is not counting views properly for users with an ad blocker enabled, another step in the platform's continued war on ad blockers. This was first realized by Josh Strife Hayes, who noticed that view counts on TV, phones, and tablets have been steady, while views on computers have dropped by around 50% since the mid-August trend started. TechLinked, a channel in the Linus Tech Tips family, confirmed similar numbers within its statistics.

YouTube first announced the option back in April, with the process enabling creators to generate whatever stickers they might like, as another decoration for their clips. Use an AI sticker to generate something from your imagination, or an image sticker to add photos from your phone's gallery. These new features build on our existing five stickers which include Q&A, add yours, poll, quiz, and shopping.

YouTube has put traditional media companies like Disney and Netflix on watch, grabbing the top spot in share of TV viewing among media companies for months running. But the Google platform is far from done. "It's still early days," Kurt Wilms, senior director of product, told Business Insider in an interview on Tuesday. "Especially with Gen Z." "YouTube's always known that creators are the lifeblood of what people want to watch, and I think it's flattering that other streamers are figuring that out and talking to creators, too," he said.

Advertising spending on YouTube has been on the rise of late as traditional sellers like linear TV networks struggle. Total ad revenue on YouTube climbed 15% in 2024 to reach $36.1 billion. The company shares 45% of ad revenue with channel owners, so the $100 billion figure includes additional payouts for programming, though the company didn't offer a detailed breakdown.

It's not so much what Hank Green said, but what the Hank Green-hosted SciShow on YouTube put forward. The video is framed as physicists using science to explain the art of knitting, which until now has been innovated simply "through trial and error," and that "how it all works was mostly a mystery." Recently, scientists used a computer model to determine how certain knit stitches will behave, thus being able to predictively pattern knit fabrics for the first time.

YouTube is expanding access to its multi-language audio option, which will give more creators the opportunity to reach new audiences by translating their content into different languages.