Bow down to YouTube, the lord of the living room
When my 12-year-old daughter plunks onto the sofa for TV time, she might dial up Netflix to binge-watch Gossip Girl or switch on the PS5 for a little Hogwarts Legacy. But when she really wants…
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Want YouTube Premium features for free? This app makes it happen
Youtube has been trying to push users toward Premium for a while now, dangling all kinds of benefits ranging from ad-free viewing to extra features like downloading videos for offline playback and playing videos in…
Amazon hiked Music Unlimited prices. Here’s why Apple and YouTube are next
For video streamers, another price hike just means it’s Tuesday. For music streaming, however, price increases are bigger deals, and they tend to reverberate for everyone. Take Amazon, which just hiked the price of its…
Hours-long unskippable ads spotted on YouTube. What’s going on?
Google is getting sick and tired of YouTube watchers who use ad blockers, and — no surprise — the company is stepping it up in an effort to extract (reclaim?) even more ad revenue from…
Here are 20 YouTube Shorts creators I love, as TikTok’s ban looms
There’s a lot of stuff happening right now. Here in the US, it seems kind of inescapable. And it surely doesn’t help that a lot of people might be without their short-form social video fix…
Fed up with YouTube TV’s latest price hike? Try this
If YouTube TV’s latest price hike feels like a breaking point to you, you’re not alone. Over the last week, I’ve heard from a bunch of folks who say the rate hike—from $73 per month…
How to download YouTube videos on a Mac
If the idea of a long car journey or bedtime without a connection to the internet leaves you trembling with fear, there’s a solution. You can make a copy of those YouTube videos your kids…
YouTube TV is hiking its monthly price, again
Well, here’s a lump of coal for your holiday stocking: Google just announced a stiff price hike for YouTube TV starting in the middle of next month. In an email sent to YouTube TV subscribers,…
Get more out of YouTube: 17 helpful tips, tricks, and tweaks
Some people can hardly remember the time before YouTube. The video host was founded in 2005, and year after year the platform got bigger and bigger. As early as 2006, around 100 million clips were…
I block every ad on YouTube and I’m not ashamed to admit it
I block every single ad on YouTube. And I’m a hypocrite for doing it. But I’m not ashamed. Because through a series of blunders and malicious decisions, Google has systematically made YouTube a worse and…