Recent Headlines

• Sick of slop? YouTube now has a workaround that effectively turns off Shorts.

  An update to a YouTube feature that lets users "take a break" now permits the complete silencing of the Shorts feed.

  
• Courts and governments say social platforms harm teens’ mental health. Here’s what the teens think.

  A survey from the Pew Research Center found that most teens feel they have appropriate relationships with social media platforms.

  
• Want to know why streamers are hungry for live sports? Check out NBC’s Olympics viewership.

  NBCUniversal's coverage of the Super Bowl and the Winter Olympics led it to its best-ever showing in Nielsen's The Gauge report.

  

• RedNote goes west with U.S. hires, creator outreach, and its version of TikTok Shop
• Northernlion is holding a 6-day fan “supercruise.” But he’s not the only creator traveling with viewers.
• At Coachella, Justin Bieber flipped the camera — and reminded us how YouTube changed everything
• With The Overlap’s acquisition of Mark Goldbridge’s channels, the soccer world bets on YouTube