YouTube surpasses Disney, Paramount, WBD in 2025 ad revenue

YouTube pulled in $40.4 billion in ad revenue last year, which is more than Disney, NBC, Paramount, and Warner Bros. Discovery combined.

YouTube expands AI deepfake detection for politicians, government officials, and journalists

YouTube’s AI deepfake detection tool is becoming available to politicians, journalists, and officials, letting them flag unauthorized likenesses for removal.

YouTube is expanding its AI deepfake detection tool to politicians and journalists
YouTube is expanding its AI deepfake detection tool to politicians and journalists

Public officials and journalists will soon be able to keep track of AI-generated deepfakes of themselves on YouTube through the platform’s likeness detection feature. The tool is already available to millions of content creators on YouTube, but beginning Tuesday, it will expand to a pilot group of journalists, government officials, and political candidates. (At a […]

YouTube’s Premium Lite gets a tad sweeter with essential features

Premium Lite subscribers can now play videos in the background and download content offline, closing a major feature gap without raising the subscription price.
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YouTube’s cheaper subscription is getting background play and downloads
YouTube’s cheaper subscription is getting background play and downloads

YouTube is adding background playback and offline downloads to YouTube Premium Lite, its $7.99-per-month subscription. With the change, you’ll be able to keep YouTube videos going while you use another app on your phone or save videos to watch when you’re offline. YouTube Premium Lite came to the US just about a year ago as […]

YouTube beefs up its $7.99/month Lite subscription with offline downloads and background play

Now the only reason to get the full Premium subscription is ad-free music and music videos.

Hank Green will gladly take billionaire money for education videos
Hank Green will gladly take billionaire money for education videos

Today, I’m talking with Hank Green, a longtime friend of Decoder and the cofounder and now former owner of Complexly, an online education company he started with his brother John in 2012. I say former owner because Hank and John have just converted Complexly into a nonprofit and given up their ownership of the company […]

YouTube’s latest experiment brings its conversational AI tool to TVs

YouTube is testing conversational AI on smart TVs, allowing viewers to ask the assistant questions related to the video they’re watching on the big screen.

You may stop seeing comments on YouTube if you use an ad blocker

YouTube users with ad blockers report missing comments and descriptions, sparking speculation that Google may be limiting features as part of its anti-ad-block strategy.
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The Vision Pro YouTube app is here and it fixes the biggest annoyances

YouTube finally has an official Vision Pro app, ending the Safari workaround and adding offline downloads plus support for 3D and panoramic video. It’s free now, even as Netflix still stays away.
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