YouTube has updated its Partner Program policies to strip monetization from three categories of “inauthentic content”: repetitive AI-generated videos, distressing or emotionally manipulative clips, ...

While Hollywood tries to figure out what to do with animation, the medium’s independent scene is apparently thriving on YouTube. A recent report from the company’s Trends and Culture team dug into the ...

When YouTube releases a trends report, it inevitably makes an argument about itself, and it will feel like PR. The company’s 2026 Animation Trends report is no exception, although it touches on trends ...

Maddy Buxton, Culture & Trends manager at YouTube, discusses how creators and digital animation on the platform are global, fan-driven, popular among young adults, and driving innovation and ...

Popular YouTube channel TheOdd1sOut allegedly laid off members of its entire animation team without warning on Thursday, according to affected artists. Correction, 3/9/2026; 11:10 a.m. ET: This story ...

Despite many worthy contenders, React remains the most popular front-end framework, and a key player in the JavaScript development landscape. React is the quintessential reactive engine, continually ...

YouTube's specifications are extremely complex and change frequently. The yt-dlp development team previously supported YouTube using a method that heavily relied on regular expressions. However, in ...

There are currently 20 animations customized for different genres, including sports, pets, and travel videos. There are currently 20 animations customized for different genres, including sports, pets, ...

Like Pokémon, it’s fun to try and snatch up every new custom like button in YouTube’s redesign. One user put together an animated list of every new icon. Part of YouTube’s broader new design on ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

YouTube has introduced new custom like button animations that change based on the genre of content. These animations appear in videos with themes such as music, film, animals, sports, and more.

As a result, the development team switched to a JavaScript-based approach. Because this JavaScript code is too complex to be executed by the JavaScript interpreter built into yt-dlp , it is now ...