Surveys: half of US adults under 50 get health info from influencers or podcasts; 86% of health influencers are on Instagram, 62% on TikTok, and 45% on YouTube
Half of U.S. adults under 50 say they get health and wellness information from social media influencers or podcasts.
How US schools' overreliance on YouTube for educational content encourages students to get sucked into an infinite scroll of videos on school-issued devices
Parents find their kids captive to the video streaming site on their school-issued devices; for one, it was 13,000 YouTube videos in three months
Alphabet reports YouTube's Q1 ad revenue rose 10.7% YoY to $9.88B, vs. $9.99B est., and Google's ad revenue reached $77.25B, up from $66.89B in Q1 2025
While OpenAI Is SweatingJess Barnes /Cord Cutters News:YouTube Ad Revenue Increased by 11% in Q1 2026Kayla Cobb /The Wrap:YouTube Ads Rise by 11% as Alphabet Revenue for Q1 Surpasses $109 BillionMatth...
Google says paid subscriptions reached 350M in Q1, up 25M QoQ, driven by YouTube and Google One, while Gemini Enterprise paid MAUs grew 40% QoQ
and AI is a big reason
Google says paid subscriptions reached 350M in Q1, up 25M QoQ, driven by YouTube and Google One, while Gemini Enterprise paid MAUs grew 40% QoQ
and AI is a big reason
Alphabet reports YouTube's Q1 ad revenue rose 10.7% YoY to $9.88B, vs. $9.99B est., and Google's ad revenue reached $77.25B, up from $66.89B in Q1 2025
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YouTube rolls out Full Multiview Customization to YouTube TV, letting users pin up to four live streams in a window, after debuting a limited version in 2023
Custom multiview is finally here. Custom multiview is finally here. … YouTube CEO Neal Mohan announced Tuesday …
YouTube makes its deepfake detection tool available to anyone at high risk of having their likeness abused, expanding it from public officials and politicians
YouTube now lets users set a zero-minute Shorts time limit, effectively removing them from its iOS and Android app; the lowest previous option was 15 minutes
All YouTube users are getting an option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes.
Omdia: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok now capture over 90% of social media ad revenue, with Meta accounting for 70% of the total
Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok “capture over 90 percent of social media advertising revenues,” an Omdia analyst tells the StreamTV Europe gathering in Lisbon.