YouTube's total revenue last year surpassed that of rival streamer Netflix as it seeks to dominate TVs.

YouTube has made a not-so-subtle change to a feature that everyone sees, and most users have started to hate it already.

YouTube TV is expanding its options on the platform with an expanded multiview service and genre-specific packages. With customizable multiview

YouTube reached a total of 29 billion videos as of December 30, 2025, following a massive surge in content driven by Shorts, artificial intelligence, and significant expansion in the Indian market, according to research firm Omdia.

YouTube Music has started capping lyrics access for free users, limiting views and pushing Premium subscriptions as Spotify keeps lyrics free.

Kim Larson, global managing director and head of creators at YouTube, said the Google-owned video platform is planning to give the Academy Awards “a little bit of a zhuzh-up.” Asked during a panel Wednesday at NATPE in Miami about the 2029 kickoff of the rights deal,

The company said it now has 325 million paying users across Google One and YouTube Premium, up from 300 million users three months earlier.

YouTube is improving how auto-dubbed videos sound and feel, adding expressive speech and testing lip-sync technology so translated audio better matches tone, emotion and on-screen visuals.

Giant YouTube revenue from advertising and subscriptions passed $60 million last year while ad sales for the latest quarter rose 9% to $11.38 billion. Executives on a call after parent Alphabet reported earnings,

The video is now available on Apple Music and Spotify, but it isn't landing on YouTube for a couple more days.