YouTube is updating search filters so users can explicitly choose between Shorts and long-form videos. The change also replaces view-count sorting with a new "Popularity" filter and removes underperforming options like "Sort by Rating." The Verge reports: Right now, a filter-less search shows a mix of longform and short form videos, which can be annoying if you just want to see videos in one format or the other. But in the new search filters, among other options, you can pick to see "Videos," which in my testing has only showed a list of longform videos, or "Shorts," which just shows Shorts. YouTube is also removing the "Upload Date - Last Hour" and "Sort by Rating" filters because they "were not working as expected and had contributed to user complaints." The company will still offer other "Upload Date" filters, like "Today," "This week," "This Month," and "This Year," and you can also find popular videos with the new "Popularity" filter, which is replacing the "View count" sort option. (With the new "Popularity" filter, YouTube says that "our systems assess a video's view count and other relevance signals, such as watch time, to determine its popularity for that specific query.")

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Disney a accepté de payer une amende de 10 millions de dollars pour régler des accusations selon lesquelles le groupe aurait illégalement collecté des données personnelles d’enfants via des vidéos diffusées sur YouTube, en violation de la loi américaine sur la protection de la vie privée des enfants en ligne (COPPA).

Une étude révèle que 21 % des YouTube Shorts sont désormais générés par intelligence artificielle. Cette invasion de contenus IA transforme la plateforme de vidéos en ligne en une machine à vues qui rapporte 117 millions de dollars par an à une poignée de chaînes.

YouTube has been winning the streaming wars for years, but its real competitive advantage comes not from prime-time viewing but from its stranglehold on daytime hours when Americans are meditating, exercising, cooking, or simply looking for background noise. At 11 a.m. in October, YouTube commanded an average audience of 6.3 million viewers compared to Netflix's 2.8 million, according to Nielsen data. Amazon drew about a million viewers at that hour, and HBO Max, Paramount+ and Peacock each pulled fewer than 600,000. The gap narrows significantly at night -- Netflix's audience swells to over 11 million at 9 p.m., trailing YouTube's 12 million -- but YouTube's dominance reasserts itself in overnight hours and through the next day. Netflix is responding by bringing at least 34 video podcasts to its service next year, including "The Breakfast Club," "The Bill Simmons Podcast," and "Pardon My Take." Amazon added the Kelce brothers' "New Heights" podcast to Prime Video in September. The strategy is intentional: roughly 75 percent of all podcast listening happens between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m., according to Edison Research. YouTube said viewers watched 700 million hours of video podcasts on living room devices in October alone, a 75% increase from the previous year.

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Même sans vrai feu de cheminée à la maison, il est possible de créer une ambiance qui s'en approche. Les plateformes de vidéos offrent plusieurs émissions centrées sur bûches crépitantes.

C'est terminé pour deux usines à fakes. La plateforme YouTube a enfin pris des mesures radicales à l'encontre de Screen Culture et de KH Studio, deux chaînes qui cumulaient des milliards de vues. Comment ? En trompant les internautes et les médias avec de fausses bandes-annonces, créées par IA.

C'est terminé pour deux usines à fakes. La plateforme YouTube a enfin pris des mesures radicales à l'encontre de Screen Culture et de KH Studio, deux chaînes qui cumulaient des milliards de vues. Comment ? En trompant les internautes et les médias avec de fausses bandes-annonces, créées par IA.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Deadline: YouTube has terminated two prominent channels that used artificial intelligence to create fake movie trailers, Deadline can reveal. The Google-owned video giant has switched off Screen Culture and KH Studio, which together boasted well over 2 million subscribers and more than a billion views. The channels have been replaced with the message: "This page isn't available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else." Earlier this year, YouTube suspended ads on Screen Culture and KH Studio following a Deadline investigation into fake movie trailers plaguing the platform since the rise of generative AI. The channels later returned to monetization when they started adding "fan trailer," "parody" and "concept trailer" to their video titles. But those caveats disappeared In recent months, prompting concern in the fan-made trailer community. YouTube's position is that the channels' decision to revert to their previous behavior violated its spam and misleading-metadata policies. This resulted in their termination. "The monster was defeated," one YouTuber told Deadline following the enforcement action. Deadline's investigation revealed that Screen Culture spliced together official footage with AI images to create franchise trailers that duped many YouTube viewers. Screen Culture founder Nikhil P. Chaudhari said his team of a dozen editors exploited YouTube's algorithm by being early with fake trailers and constantly iterating with videos. [...] Our deep dive into fake trailers revealed that instead of protecting copyright on these videos, a handful of Hollywood studios, including Warner Bros Discovery and Sony, secretly asked YouTube to ensure that the ad revenue from the AI-heavy videos flowed in their direction.

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Intermarché comptait permettre à ses clients de poser avec le loup de sa publicité dès le 18 décembre 2025, via un partenariat avec le Me Group, propriétaire des Photomatons. Un projet finalement abandonné, critiqué pour son recours à l’intelligence artificielle.

À partir de 2029, la cérémonie des Oscars sera diffusée exclusivement sur YouTube, a annoncé l’Académie des arts et des sciences du cinéma le 17 décembre 2025. Un partenariat prévu jusqu’en 2033, qui acte un nouveau revers pour la télévision classique.

The Academy has struck a multi-year deal to move the Oscars to YouTube starting in 2029, ending decades on ABC and making the ceremony free to stream worldwide with YouTube holding exclusive global rights. Variety reports: The Oscars, including red carpet coverage, behind-the-scenes content and Governors Ball, will be available live and for free on YouTube to viewers around the world, as well as to YouTube TV subscribers in the United States. Architects of the agreement said they hope the move to YouTube will help make the Oscars more accessible to "the Academy's growing global audience through features such as closed captioning and audio tracks available in multiple languages." [...] The Academy had been seeking a new broadcast licensing agreement for the better part of 2025. Over the summer, several expected and unconventional buyers, including NBCUniversal and Netflix, had come into the mix as potential suitors. Insiders believe that YouTube shelled out over nine figures for the Oscars, besting the high eight-figure offers from Disney/ABC and NBCUniversal. Under the most recent contract, Disney was paying around $100 million annually for the Oscars -- but given the ratings declines for the kudocast, Disney/ABC were reportedly looking to spend less on license fees. [...] It's not a secret that the Academy and Disney/ABC would occasionally have disagreements over the best path for the Oscars, including the show's length, which awards to present and who should host. Now, on a streamer with no time limits, the Oscars can be any length, and the Academy likely has carte blanche to do whatever it wants with the telecast. "They can do whatever they want," says one insider. "You can have a six-hour Oscars hosted by MrBeast."

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Comme YouTube, désormais massivement regardé sur grand écran, Instagram rêve de devenir un réflexe pour les familles sur leur canapé. L'entreprise annonce le lancement de « Instagram for TV », un nouveau service pour toucher un nouveau public.

Sur Reddit, des internautes ont remarqué que YouTube a caché ses anciennes vidéos Rewind, qui sont désormais « non répertoriées ». La plateforme vidéo semble vouloir enterrer cet ancien rendez-vous annuel.

L’accusation est lourde : Google aurait enfreint les règles antitrust de l'Union européenne, sur le terrain de l'intelligence artificielle cette fois. Le groupe est accusé de piocher sans vergogne sur le web pour entraîner ses modèles, et de jouer un double jeu avec les vidéos sur YouTube. Une enquête formelle est lancée.

Pour ce récap' hebdomadaire, l'arrivée du bilan annuel de YouTube (à la façon de Spotify Wrapped), d'un rival français à Google Maps tout à fait prometteur et la découverte d'une tombe vieille d'un millénaire qui appartient à la « dame au diadème inversé ».

YouTube has launched its first-ever "Recap" for videos watched on the main platform, giving users personalized cards that showcase their top channels, interests, and a personality type based on their watch habits. The feature rolls out across North America today and globally this week. TechCrunch reports: Users can find their Recap directly on the YouTube homepage or under the "You" tab. Recaps are accessible on mobile devices and desktop. YouTube says the new feature was requested by users and that it conducted over 50 different concept tests before landing on the final product. Alongside the launch of Recap, YouTube also released trend charts showcasing the top creators, podcasts, and songs of the year.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: The popular open-source SmartTube YouTube client for Android TV was compromised after an attacker gained access to the developer's signing keys, leading to a malicious update being pushed to users. The compromise became known when multiple users reported that Play Protect, Android's built-in antivirus module, blocked SmartTube on their devices and warned them of a risk. The developer of SmartTube, Yuriy Yuliskov, admitted that his digital keys were compromised late last week, leading to the injection of malware into the app. Yuliskov revoked the old signature and said he would soon publish a new version with a separate app ID, urging users to move to that one instead. [...] A user who reverse-engineered the compromised SmartTube version number 30.51 found that it includes a hidden native library named libalphasdk.so [VirusTotal]. This library does not exist in the public source code, so it is being injected into release builds. [...] The library runs silently in the background without user interaction, fingerprints the host device, registers it with a remote backend, and periodically sends metrics and retrieves configuration via an encrypted communications channel. All this happens without any visible indication to the user. While there's no evidence of malicious activity such as account theft or participation in DDoS botnets, the risk of enabling such activities at any time is high.

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YouTube s'aligne sur Spotify, Deezer et Apple Music en proposant un récapitulatif annuel pour 2025. Ce sera pour la première fois un « Wrapped » orienté sur la vidéo, avec une sélection des contenus préférés par les utilisateurs de la plateforme tout au long de l'année. Les États-Unis y ont déjà droit, les Français pourront bientôt en profiter.

Créatrice du tube mondial Baby Shark Dance, la société sud-coréenne Pinkfong est entrée en Bourse le 18 novembre pour doper ses revenus. Malgré un démarrage en fanfare, son action a rapidement dévissé, sur fond de scepticisme d’investisseurs quant à sa capacité à reproduire un succès de la même ampleur.

Invitée de BFM Business à l'occasion du YouTube Festival, qui célèbre les créateurs de la plateforme, la directrice générale de YouTube France a partagé plusieurs chiffres intéressants sur le rapport des Français à la plateforme.