La police nationale a tiré la sonnette d'alarme le 2 avril 2025 au sujet d'un défi repéré sur TikTok et YouTube. Appelé « zizi challenge » ou « maillot challenge », il incite des enfants à s'exhiber dans des vidéos.

MoffettNathanson has crowned YouTube the "New King of All Media" as the Alphabet-owned video platform has become a major force in Hollywood, dominating time spent watching TV. From a report: The firm estimates that YouTube as a standalone business could be worth as much as $550 billion -- or nearly 30% of the tech giant's current valuation. The figure is based on the firm's analysis of enterprise value as a multiple of revenue in 2024 for Netflix (10.5x revenue), Meta (8.8x), Roku (2.4x), Warner Bros. Discovery (1.4x), Fox (1.3x) and Disney (1.3x). In 2024, YouTube was the second-largest media company by revenue at $54.2 billion, trailing behind only Disney. However, the MoffettNathanson analysts predict YouTube will take the top spot in 2025, becoming a leader in both engagement and revenue. "YouTube has the potential to become the central aggregator for all things professional video, positioning itself to capture a share of the $85 billion consumer Pay TV market and the ~$30 billion streaming ex. Netflix market in the U.S.," they wrote in a Monday research note. "On monetization, when comparing YouTube's massive TV screen engagement to its estimated TV revenue, it remains significantly under-monetized relative to its scaled reach and differentiated offering. This signals a substantial runway for improving its monetization strategy."

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Pour télécharger une vidéo YouTube depuis votre smartphone Android, il n'y a pas que YouTube Premium. Il existe d'uatres méthodes que nous vous présentons ici.

Des internautes ont signalé depuis quelques jours un souci dans le fonctionnement de YouTube : la qualité des vidéos dysfonctionne. Le souci a été reconnu par Google, qui cherche à en déterminer la cause.

Rire aux éclats devant une série drôle et intelligente, c'est possible. Et si la saison 2 de Bref vous l'a déjà prouvé, un autre récit intime pourrait bien vous prendre par surprise : Fleur Bleue, disponible gratuitement sur YouTube et Canal+.

Les tablettes de chocolat de MrBeast débarquent en France. Le vidéaste a même décidé de visiter un magasin Carrefour des Yvelines pour faire la promotion de ce produit dérivé très lucratif.

On le rabâche sans cesse : Andor est une excellente série Star Wars. Vous en doutez ? Disney vient de mettre à disposition gratuitement les trois premiers épisodes de la saison 1. Une manière de séduire aussi le public qui n'est pas encore abonné à Disney+, alors que la suite arrive en streaming.

Cette semaine sur Numerama, il était question de manquements supplémentaires de Cyril Hanouna avec TPMTP, de changements pour les abonnés Freebox Pop et Delta, et de la fin d'un avantage pour Tesla. Avez-vous manqué l'actualité récente ? On vous propose un récapitulatif !

YouTube a supprimé le replay de la première émission de TPMP nouvelle formule, 100 % en streaming. En cause : la diffusion de pages publicitaires de plusieurs minutes et la non-présentation de partenariats commerciaux.

An anonymous reader shares a report: YouTube is warning creators about a new phishing scam that attempts to lure victims using an AI-generated video of its CEO Neal Mohan. The fake video has been shared privately with users and claims YouTube is making changes to its monetization policy in an attempt to steal their credentials, according to an announcement on Tuesday. "YouTube and its employees will never attempt to contact you or share information through a private video," YouTube says. "If a video is shared privately with you claiming to be from YouTube, the video is a phishing scam." In recent weeks, there have been reports floating around Reddit about scams similar to the one described by YouTube.

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YouTube has surpassed 1 billion monthly active viewers of podcast content, the video platform announced on Wednesday, cementing its position as the most frequently used podcast service in the United States. The Google-owned platform reported viewers watched over 400 million hours of podcasts monthly on living room devices last year.

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Des chaînes YouTube et d'autres comptes sur les réseaux sociaux avec des millions d'abonnés sont détournés par des hackers, pour cibler les joueurs de Counter-Strike 2 avec des arnaques.

According to Bloomberg, YouTube plans to introduce a lower-priced, ad-free version of its paid video service. From the report: The package, dubbed "premium lite," will be announced soon in the US, Australia, Germany and Thailand, according to a person familiar with the plans. The service will target viewers who primarily want to watch programs other than music videos. While YouTube may be best known for the free videos uploaded by users, the company also offers a variety of paid services. YouTube Premium is a $13.99-a-month package in the US that lets subscribers watch everything on the service, including music videos, without ads. "As part of our commitment to provide our users with more choice and flexibility, we've been testing a new YouTube Premium offering with most videos ad-free in several of our markets," a YouTube spokesperson said in a statement. "We're hoping to expand this offering to even more users in the future with our partners' support."

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Si on ne connaît pas de faille majeure en interne à la plateforme, les chaînes de ses vidéastes sont parfois un fruit mûr pour les hackers de tout poil.

Treize ans plus tard, la saison 2 de Bref est enfin disponible sur Disney+, depuis le 14 février 2025. Si vous avez déjà englouti les 6 nouveaux épisodes de cette comédie française incontournable, pas de panique : voici 5 séries tout aussi... brèves à voir gratuitement sur YouTube.

Kamini a marqué l'histoire d'Internet avec Marly-Gomont, dont le clip est le premier buzz français sur YouTube. Dans une interview inédite, il nous confie ses souvenirs et nous explique l'impact que ce succès a eu sur lui, sur les gens et sur ce village. Il n'est pas non plus en manque de projets.

An anonymous reader shares a report: How many YouTube videos are there? What are they about? What languages do YouTubers speak? As of 14 February 2025, the platform's will have been running for 20 years. That is a lot of video. Yet we have no idea just how many there really are. Google knows the answers. It just won't tell you. Experts say that's a problem. For all practical purposes, one of the most powerful communication systems ever created -- a tool that provides a third of the world's population with information and ideas -- is operating in the dark. In part that's because there's no easy way to get a random sampling of videos, according to Ethan Zuckerman, director of the Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in the US. You can pick your videos manually or go with the algorithm's recommendations, but an unbiased selection that's worthy of real study is hard to come by. A few years ago, however, Zuckerman and his team of researchers came up with a solution: they designed a computer program that pulls up YouTube videos at random, trying billions of URLs at a time. You might call the tool a bot, but that's probably over selling it, Zuckerman says. "A more technically accurate term would be 'scraper'," he says. The scraper's findings are giving us a first-time perspective on what's actually happening on YouTube. [...] The first question was simple. How many videos have people uploaded to YouTube? [...] Zuckerman and his colleagues compared the number of videos they found to the number of guesses it took, and arrived an estimate: in 2022, they calculated that YouTube housed more than nine billion videos. By mid 2024, that number had grown to 14.8 billion videos, a 60% jump.

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La lumière blanche de YouTube a tendance à éblouir, surtout si vous consommez du contenu tard le soir. Heureusement, le mode nuit ou mode sombre existe aussi sur YouTube. Voici la marche à suivre pour en profiter facilement.

La série culte des années 2010 revient sur nos écrans pour une saison 2, dès le 14 février 2025, sur Disney+. Et bonne nouvelle pour les fans de Bref : le premier épisode est disponible gratuitement en streaming.

If there was any doubt before, this seals it: YouTube is in the TV business. According to Neal Mohan, YouTube's CEO, TV screens have officially overtaken mobile as the "primary device for YouTube viewing in the U.S." In other words, more people are watching YouTube on TV sets than any other device, at least here in the U.S. From a report: It is, as Mohan writes in his annual letter from the CEO, an indication that "YouTube is the new television." "But the 'new' television doesn't look like the 'old' television," Mohan writes. "It's interactive and includes things like Shorts (yes, people watch them on TVs), podcasts, and live streams, right alongside the sports, sitcoms and talk shows people already love."

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