You can now hyperpersonalize your YouTube algorithm using plain language.

Over the years, the YouTube suggestion algorithm has become pretty complex. I’ve noticed that it can extrapolate my tastes very well based on my watch history, continuously tempting me to consume more ...

Introduction"Even though I post every day, my view counts stay stuck in the double digits.""Videos I spent hours editing are buried without anyone ever seeing them."If you are hitting a wall like this ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Todd Beaupré, Rene Ritchie, and Katarina Mogus at VidCon 2026's panel "Decoding the Algorithm: What Your Audience Actually Wants ...

In line with recent changes made by Meta and X, YouTube will update its Shorts recommendation algorithm in order to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. YouTube's algorithm recommends right-wing, extremist videos to users — even if they haven't interacted with that content before — ...

YouTube's recommendation algorithm focuses on individual videos, not channel averages. YouTube aims to show videos that align with your interests and preferences. The algorithm doesn't punish channels ...

The following article was originally published by the Annenberg School for Communication. About a quarter of Americans get their news on YouTube. With its billions of users and hours upon hours of ...

YouTube has two billion active monthly users and uploads 500 hours of content every minute. Twenty five percent of U.S. adults get their news from YouTube, and 60% of regular users “use the platform ...

Todd Beaupré, Rene Ritchie, and Katarina Mogus at VidCon 2026's panel "Decoding the Algorithm: What Your Audience Actually Wants on YouTube." Credit: Kristy Puchko / Mashable VidCon is a premier ...