YouTube has quietly shared new details explaining how viewers can directly influence what appears in their recommendations.

The YouTube algorithm is often seen as a mysterious black box, determining which videos rise to fame and which languish in obscurity. But according to Todd Beaupré, who manages YouTube's ...

Almost every day, YouTube’s engineers experiment on us without our knowledge. They tweak video recommendations for subsets of users, review the results, and tweak again. Ideally, YouTube wants more ...

AI-based algorithms on YouTube are important because it is what determines how a video responds to viewers and why it loses or gains momentum, impressions, and more. Google has always been reluctant ...

If Nielsen stats are to be believed, we collectively spend more time in front of YouTube than any other streaming service—including Disney+ and Netflix. That's a lot of watch hours, especially for an ...

"If you randomly follow the algorithm, you probably would consume less radical content using YouTube as you typically do!" So says Manoel Ribeiro, co-author of a new paper on YouTube's recommendation ...

YouTube demystifies the Shorts algorithm in a Q&A video that addresses several of the most common questions creators have about gaining visibility with short-form content. We know at least some ...

I’ve been losing a lot of time to YouTube lately. I don’t even know why. In a down moment, I just find myself heading to the homepage and watching whatever comes up (usually weird Tears of the Kingdom ...

A few months ago, we posted some answers about how YouTube ranking is affected by various variables and factors - YouTube SEO questions and answers, if you will. Well, the YouTube Liaison posted a ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...