YouTube is expanding its likeness detection tool to all monetized channels, allowing them to detect and request removal of AI videos using their face. YouTube is beginning to expand access to its ...

After years of making monetization status publicly available, YouTube now hides channels that are enrolled in its Partner Program. The YouTube Partner Program allows channels and creators to make ...

YouTube in 2026 is transitioning from an ad-revenue focus to a layered monetization framework, lowering entry thresholds for fan funding and shopping features while enforcing stronger authenticity ...

YouTube Shorts began rolling out in the U.S. on March 18, 2021. It’s still early days for the new short-form video experience, which YouTube says is, “…for creators and artists who want to shoot short ...

YouTube’s 2026 landscape is being reshaped by major algorithm updates, monetization reforms, and new discovery tools like the Hype button. Creators are shifting strategies to focus on viewer ...

YouTube is updating its advertiser-friendly content guidelines to allow more videos on controversial issues to earn full ad revenue, as long as they’re dramatized or discussed in a non-graphic manner.

Veteran reporter and editor with over ten years of experience. Probably reading comic books. YouTubers, whether they like it or not, learn quickly just what content creators are and are not allowed to ...

The news follows a similar move on Friday from Meta which is "now prohibiting Russian state media from running ads or monetizing on our platform anywhere in the world" according to security policy ...

YouTube announced today that it’s relaxing the controversial profanity rules that it introduced toward the end of last year. The company says the new rules ended up creating a “stricter approach” than ...

YouTube has changed its ad revenue policies regarding the use of profanity in the beginning of a video, allowing creators more freedom to swear -- and to monetize their content. “Use of stronger ...