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YouTube by the numbers: uncovering YouTube's ghost town of billions of unwatched, ignored videos

The big picture: Google remains tight-lipped about many details surrounding YouTube's inner workings. And that's a problem, according to experts, given the platform's massive global reach and influence. But now, thanks to an innovative research approach, we're getting some of the first concrete figures from the platform.

Happy birthday to You(Tube): Google's video-sharing platform turns 20

YouTube is the new television: More people now watch on TV than mobile

YouTube rakes in record $10.4 billion from ads even as users grumble about aggressive strategy

YouTube TV raises price again citing content costs, now it's $83 a month

YouTube takes over the living room: Viewers stream over a billion hours a day

People now spend more time watching games than playing them, according to a new report

MKBHD faces backlash for driving at 95mph in 35mph zone in a sponsored video

A hot potato: What do Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson, Linus Sebastian, and now Marques Brownlee have in common? They were all universally loved YouTube stars who later became embroiled in controversy. In the case of Brownlee, who recently faced criticism over his wallpaper app, the TechTuber is now being slammed for posting a video fully sponsored by DJI in which he drives a sports car at 95 miles per hour in a 35 miles per hour zone, speeding past a sign warning drivers to slow down for children.

Russia fines Google $20.5 decillion for blocking YouTube channels

Instagram faces backlash for lowering quality of low-engagement videos

EU demands information on content algorithms from YouTube, Snapchat, and TikTok

MKBHD is getting cancelled over $12/month wallpaper app, ad overload, and excessive permissions

A hot potato: Marques Brownlee, aka MKBHD, has long been one of those rare tech YouTubers who remains universally liked by fans. But his popularity has been put to the test after he released a wallpaper app with a $12 per month/$50 per year premium option that users say has excessive ads and asks for too many permissions. Now, Marques says he will be addressing these issues; but the pricing isn't going to change.

YouTube Premium is hiking prices across Europe, Asia, and South America

YouTuber claims another channel used AI to clone his voice without consent

iPhone 16 Pro Max passes durability tests but thin bezels pose risks

Communities is a Discord-like space for YouTube creators

YouTube gives parents enhanced tools to monitor teens' online activity

This YouTube video can help flush water out of your smartphone

Susan Wojcicki, former YouTube CEO and driving force in Google's growth story, dies at 56

YouTube tests Twitter-style community notes to fight misinformation

Nvidia says scraping 80 years' worth of videos daily to train its AI models is in "the spirit of copyright law"

A hot potato: Once again, it's been revealed that a company has been scraping data from the internet to train its AI models using a questionable interpretation of copyright law. On this occasion, Nvidia has been downloading videos from YouTube, Netflix, and other platforms to gather data for its commercial AI products.

Someone just pushed this decades-old IIyama CRT monitor's refresh rate to 700Hz

Apple, Nvidia, and others trained their AI on YouTube content without user consent or knowledge

YouTube unveils AI-powered tool to cleanly remove copyrighted music

Google could launch AI chatbots based on celebs and influencers later this year