New information about how various factors influence YouTube’s video recommendation algorithm is revealed by members of the team responsible for working on it. Having only been implemented in 2016, we ...

YouTube demystifies the Shorts algorithm in a Q&A video that addresses several of the most common questions creators have about gaining visibility with short-form content. We know at least some ...

At the first VidCon since 2019, YouTube’s top earner in the U.S., MrBeast, got on stage to talk to YouTube’s director of discovery Todd Beaupré about one of the biggest questions on creators’ minds: ...

Does YouTube create extremists? A recent study caused arguments among scientists by arguing that the algorithms that power the site don’t help radicalize people by recommending ever more extreme ...

Recommendation algorithms are some of the most powerful machine-learning systems today because of their ability to shape the information we consume. YouTube’s algorithm, especially, has an outsize ...

YouTube’s proprietary AI algorithm is at the heart of the company’s success, and it’s secrecy is key to continued Internet video dominance. However, a recent report from Mozilla, found YouTube’s ...

Almost everything we see online is heavily curated. Algorithms decide what to show us in Google’s search results, Apple News, Twitter trends, Netflix recommendations, Facebook’s newsfeed, and even pre ...

YouTube’s algorithm recommends videos that violate the company’s own policies on inappropriate content, according to a crowdsourced study. Not-for-profit company ...

A new study conducted by the Computational Social Science Lab (CSSLab) at the University of Pennsylvania sheds light on a pressing question: Does YouTube's algorithm radicalize young Americans?