For many years, Netflix executives bristled at the notion that the company really had a rival. Not Hollywood powerhouses like Disney, nor tech giants like Amazon. Instead, Reed Hastings, the company's ...

What do children’s entertainer Ms. Rachel, prank collective The Sidemen and dating show Pop The Balloon have in common? They are all people and projects that started on YouTube but have also ended up ...

EXCLUSIVE: “Money” was the one-word reply given by Tobi Brown of the Sidemen when asked by Netflix UK chief Anne Mensah why the successful YouTube collective had chosen to shift the second season of ...

Brian Fuhrer stared at the numbers in front of him and was certain somebody had made a mistake. It was the summer of 2017, and the veteran Nielsen data cruncher was in Tampa reviewing the results from ...

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Nielsen’s latest report serves as another wake-up call that YouTube is rapidly gaining ground in the TV landscape. On Tuesday, Nielsen released its April 2025 “Media Distributor Gauge” report, which ...

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Kelly believes streamers and tech companies continuing to invest in broadcasting live sport can only be a good thing over the ...

Plan members must live in the same household to use your YouTube Family account. With over a decade of experience reporting on consumer technology, James covers mobile phones, apps, operating systems, ...

YouTube TV costs me around $90 a month, but inexplicably, it doesn’t include YouTube Premium. It would be the easiest way for ...

TORONTO — The year is 2032. Late October. Your baseball watching mostly consists of social media highlights these days, but your friends texted you that tonight is Game 7 of the World Series between ...

Will we be watching the 2029 Academy Awards on YouTube? That's one possibility as streaming and broadcast giants position themselves to potentially take over as the streaming and broadcast home of the ...