YouTube this week cracked down on the videos of some prominent far-right actors and conspiracy theorists, continuing an effort that has become more visible since the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., last month caused a torrent of misinformation to be featured prominently on the site. A week after the … Read …

This week Google, via its Research Blog, announced YouTube creators are gaining the ability to swap out backgrounds in videos. Similar to how 'green screens' are used, this is designed to afford video makers the option to quickly change the background to create more engaging videos, and generally … Read More

By Rory, Krupa, Gav Prepare To Try, a show about three idiot friends slowly losing their minds while playing challenging games, now has its own YouTube Channel. Here's a little tease of what you can expect from the new channel. Read More

Although the YouTube mobile apps have been providing offline viewing capabilities for more than two years, the availability of this feature that can come quite handy in certain situations was limited to a list of select markets. That list was not long at all, but now 109 new items have …

The far-left organization known as the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), often described as an “anti-Christian hate group,” is working with YouTube to purge conservatives, Christians, libertarians, and others from the video streaming platform, according to news reports. A number of prominent media … Read More

Looks Tuma Basa, the mastermind behind RapCaviar's playlist on Spotify says goodbye to Spotify and hello to YouTube! Basa had been working for Spotify for close to three years as the company's global programming head for hip-hop. He's best known for turning RapCaviar into one of the music … Read More

YouTube Stories will be rolling out gradually. If you see the option in the app, you're a beta tester. One of the features that Google talks about is adding backgrounds to your videos. The company uses machine learning in real time to separate you from your background, called video segmentation:. …

Ten years ago if you posted a video of kittens playing, you may have gained a significant number of views. YouTube was still relatively new at that point and the perception towards it was very different. The perception has gradually changed and this is due in part to the kind …

According to claims made in a lawsuit filed by a former recruiter for Google's YouTube video site, the company instructed staff to stop hiring white and Asian men last year in an attempt to improve corporate diversity. The Wall Street Journal reports that the freeze on hiring whites and Asians …

This dad finds his son's weed, presumably while doing the laundry, and flushes it down the toilet. Reacting to a child's "wrongdoing" by posting the repercussions online isn't new, but it's such a strange strategy that some parents use to either teach or punish their child (not sure which). "He's …