YouTube

• Creators’ channels keep getting hacked by crypto shills. They want YouTube to protect them–but YouTube’s accounts are getting hacked, too.
• YouTube’s AI-powered age line is now live. Will it work as intended?

  YouTube has started to roll out age verification technology that uses AI-powered insights to estimate how old individual users are.

  
• Podcast listening on TVs has doubled. What can YouTube do with that growth?

  
• Top 50 Most Subscribed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 08/10/2025

  Superman (and his dog Krypto) are back in the public eye, and slop channels on YouTube Shorts are finding ways to harness the trend.

  
• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 08/10/2025
• A TV ad group wants YouTube to clean up its slop. Can it?
• YouTube’s support for LA wildfire relief includes $3 million fund for local creators
• 20 years of YouTube: In 2019, MatPat delivered a eulogy for the MCN era
• Top 50 Most Subscribed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 08/03/2025
• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 08/03/2025
• 20 years of YouTube: In 2018, many creators needed breaks. Elle Mills took a memorable one.
• Sorry, kids: No more lying about your age on YouTube