Google has denied reports that it’s serving unskippable ads that last for minutes or even hours to some YouTube users who have ad blockers enabled, instead blaming ad blockers themselves for any “suboptimal viewing experience.” Users have complained of seeing unskippable YouTube ads ranging from a few minutes to several hours in duration.

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YouTube ads are getting more frustrating, with some users reporting unskippable ads that are nearly an hour long. Are ad blockers to blame?

YouTube reveals how AI, viewer satisfaction, context, and multilingual tools are reshaping its recommendation system for 2025.

While many music apps like Spotify and Apple Music have this feature, it’s sorely missing from YouTube Music. The awkward gaps between tracks can interrupt the flow and create a jarring experience when listening to your playlist.

Google has offered an explanation for why these ads are happening and what users can do about it. Whether the explanation is satisfying?

Google has responded after a YouTube viewer went viral on Reddit showing a 60-minute unskippable ad on a video.

Almost seven years after its first release, the YouTube Music app has hit the 5 billion download milestone on the Google Play Store.

Bob Iger's empire kept the Google-owned platform at bay in Nielsen's monthly media distributor rankings for December.

Now that Google is largely winning the war against ad blockers, it’s time to remind the company that it’s messing up again in the most annoying way possible. Some users are seeing hour-long unskippable ads on YouTube. No, seriously… an hour. I wouldn’t blame anyone if they resorted to ad blockers after dealing with that sort of nightmare.

YouTube must improve ad moderation due to increasing user discomfort with explicit and fake ads. A child was exposed to a sexually explicit ad on YouTube, causing an uncomfortable situation for everyone involved.

The U.K.'s National Crime Agency has said it's made big progress in stamping out accounts linked to people-smuggling on Meta, X, TikTok and YouTube.