In the mid-2000s, improvements to data speeds and broadband costs led to an explosion of first generation video streaming services. A group of ex-PayPal employees founded YouTube in 2005. Seeing the ...

When two browsers are playing the same web video, Coplay can connect them with WebRTC (using PeerJS) and enable users to control two video players synchronously. Coplay now works on Youku, Sohu TV, ...

Imagine if YouTube pivoted to licensing and producing professional content years ago, transitioning away from user-generated videos to become more like Netflix or Hulu. This more or less sums up the ...

YouTube has become the largest digital library for 'Sesame Street' content, including offering more than 100 full episodes to ...

Parents will now be able to set a timer for how much time children’s connected accounts can spend watching Shorts — YouTube’s ...

By the numbers, everything is going great for creators. So why are so many of them scared it’s all about to fall apart?

Parents will also be able to manually create and adjust child and teen accounts on YouTube. ...

YouTube announced that it would officially be picking up a large portion of the Sesame Street episode catalog. The company notes that episodes dating back to the first one in 1969 would be among the ...

YouTube’s big streaming lead over Netflix and other competitors stems in large part to its dominance during daylight hours. Credit...Fortunate Joaquin Supported by By John Koblin At Nancy Ann Ling’s ...

The Oscars telecast will move from broadcasting to streaming in 2029, switching from ABC to YouTube — a watershed moment for the entertainment business. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ...

The Game Awards keeps getting bigger each year. When the annual kudofest recognizing the best of the video-game industry kicked off in 2014, it registered 1.9 million livestreams. It has exploded ...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said it had reached a deal with YouTube for exclusive rights to the show starting in 2029. By Brooks Barnes and John Koblin The Oscars are going online.