We recently reported about a few bizarre cases of YouTube viewers seeing hour-long unskippable ads. This particular article sparked a lot of conversation on our website, with many frustrated users ...

Chandraveer, a seasoned mechanical design engineer turned tech reporter and reviewer, brings more than three years of rich experience in consumer tech journalism to the table, having contributed to ...

“YouTube Premium subscribers should not be shown ads in their home feed and we’re looking into why this may have happened,” a Google spokesperson told Android Authority. “We’ve also let that user know ...

Beyond Veo, YouTube’s conversational AI tool, Ask Studio, will soon give U.S. creators feedback and analytics on their ...

First, YouTube subjected viewers to longer unskippable ads. Now, not even pausing your screen will let users escape. The Google-owned platform confirmed Thursday that it has “widely rolled out Pause ...

Over the past few weeks, a handful of reports have surfaced regarding ads being shown for YouTube Premium subscribers, with one users sharing a support email that supposedly confirmed it was on ...

In January this year, Adblock and Adblock Plus users reported performance issues on YouTube, which many rushed to interpret as Google ramping up aggressive measures against ad blocking. It was later ...

This new location for YouTube ads means that when users watch certain videos on the site, they may see ads that arrive before a video begins, ones that pop up from time to time as they watch, and now, ...

YouTube expands Shorts monetization with new ad controls, measurement tools, and creator partnerships. Advertisers can now run campaigns exclusively in Shorts feed or focus on horizontal content. New ...

YouTube, the internet’s biggest streaming video platform, delivered a healthy 13.8% increase in global ad revenue for the year-end 2024 quarter to surpass $10 billion for the first time. YouTube’s ...

YouTube continues to rake in money from advertisers worldwide, with the video giant’s ad revenue reaching $8.93 billion in the first quarter of 2025, up 10.3% year over year — a solid double-digit ...

For Google-parent Alphabet, 2025 has been mostly about layering AI across its footprint. Gemini kept shipping while its potent Ads and Cloud learned new tricks. YouTube leaned into short-form content ...