Tag: YouTube

Starting August 13, 2025, YouTube will introduce an age estimation model for U.S.-based users to identify those under 18, regardless of the birthdate provided during account creation. The initiative aims to enhance protections and deliver age-appropriate experiences for teenage users, including enabling digital wellbeing tools and displaying only non-personalized ads. This move builds on YouTube’s…

In a significant escalation of its efforts to combat global disinformation, Google announced on Monday the removal of nearly 11,000 YouTube channels and other accounts tied to state-sponsored propaganda campaigns during the second quarter of 2025. This brings the total of channels removed for this to over 34,000. The takedown, detailed in a report by…

YouTube has announced that after ten years, it will retire the trending page, which it describes as “the pulse of what’s trending on YouTube” and includes popular videos from the platform. In a blog post, the YouTube team wrote: Back when we first launched the Trending page in 2015, the answer to “what’s trending?” was…

YouTube, has unveiled a groundbreaking update aimed at transforming how users engage with news content. In a bid to streamline access to reliable and relevant information, YouTube has introduced a new feature that uses artificial intelligence to group similar news videos under AI-generated headlines, bundling related content together for a more cohesive viewing experience. This…

YouTube is scrambling to ease concerns among its creator community following a wave of backlash over an impending update to its monetization policies, set to take effect on July 15, 2025. The announcement, which outlined stricter guidelines for “inauthentic” content under the YouTube Partner Program, sparked fears that the platform would demonetize a broad range…

YouTube has announced a significant update to its YouTube Partner Program (YPP) monetization policies, aimed at curbing the spread of mass-produced and inauthentic content on the platform. The new guidelines, set to take effect on July 15, 2025, will refine how the platform identifies and addresses content that lacks originality or authenticity, signaling a stronger…