Growing your YouTube channel is not just about uploading good videos. The recommendation feature of YouTube plays a ...

YouTube tends to recommend videos that are similar to what people have already watched. New research has found that those recommendations can lead users down a rabbit hole of extremist political ...

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 ...

YouTube’s algorithm can be a mess—one wrong click and your feed is flooded with videos you don’t care about. But you don’t ...

Warning: This episode contains references to guns and gun violence. YouTube’s recommendation algorithm has always been key to keeping users on the site. Watch a cute cat video, and the platform spews ...

YouTube's algorithm recommends right-wing, extremist videos to users — even if they haven't interacted with that content before — a recent study found. (Marijan Murat/picture alliance via Getty Images ...

YouTube recommends videos by "pulling" content for individual viewers rather than pushing videos broadly. Watch time isn't everything - viewer satisfaction and feedback play an important role. Time of ...

YouTube has a pattern of recommending right-leaning and Christian videos, even to users who haven’t previously interacted with that kind of content, according to a recent study of the platform’s ...

The researchers, the New York Times reports, find that the same tenets that reward extremism also happen with sexual content on YouTube: A user who watches erotic videos might be recommended videos of ...

"If you randomly follow the algorithm, you probably would consume less radical content using YouTube as you typically do!" So says Manoel Ribeiro, co-author of a new paper on YouTube's recommendation ...

If Nielsen stats are to be believed, we collectively spend more time in front of YouTube than any other streaming service—including Disney+ and Netflix. That's a lot of watch hours, especially for an ...

YouTube is one of the most popular social media apps, with over a billion active users each month. The platform is home to almost all genres of video content that you can imagine, from long-form ...