If Nielsen stats are to be believed, we collectively spend more time in front of YouTube than any other streaming service—including Disney+ and Netflix. That's a lot of watch hours, especially for an ...

YouTube’s 2026 algorithm overhaul is changing how videos get discovered, ranked, and recommended. Viewer satisfaction now outweighs raw watch time, Shorts and long-form are evaluated separately, and ...

"If you randomly follow the algorithm, you probably would consume less radical content using YouTube as you typically do!" So says Manoel Ribeiro, co-author of a new paper on YouTube's recommendation ...

I’ve been losing a lot of time to YouTube lately. I don’t even know why. In a down moment, I just find myself heading to the homepage and watching whatever comes up (usually weird Tears of the Kingdom ...

Over the years, the YouTube suggestion algorithm has become pretty complex. I’ve noticed that it can extrapolate my tastes very well based on my watch history, continuously tempting me to consume more ...

New research from Mozilla shows that user controls have little effect on which videos YouTube’s influential AI recommends. YouTube’s recommendation algorithm drives 70% of what people watch on the ...

When Markiplier’s gaming streams or Emma Chamberlain’s coffee-soaked vlogs show up in your YouTube feed, it’s because these videos are algorithmically anointed. The YouTube algorithm delivers relevant ...