YouTube Shorts detailed a test to facilitate the clarity and understanding of its thumbs-down button for users.

The test is only available for a limited number of videos and users, and won’t replace existing video descriptions, but YouTube hopes they’ll help viewers decide what to watch. The test is only ...

A / B testing for thumbnails is rolling out more widely. A / B testing for thumbnails is rolling out more widely. is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in ...

Is it a conspiracy? For months, YouTubers have been quietly griping that something looked off in their recent video uploads. Following a deeper analysis by a popular music channel, Google has now ...

YouTube is rolling out, or at least widely testing, a new video player design for its web experience that feels much different. YouTube has looked, in many ways, roughly the same for a long time. That ...

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A new dataset of 300K viral YouTube videos suggests that faces in thumbnails perform about the same as without them, with ...

YouTube is running a new experiment to limit usage on ad blockers by asking users to turn it off or buy a premium subscription after three videos. Users on Reddit posted screenshots of the streaming ...