YouTube generated more than $60 billion in revenue for 2025, including advertising and subscriptions, the first time parent company Alphabet has broken out total revenue for the platform.

Up until recently, users have been able to bypass free YouTube's background play restriction by using YouTube via a browser.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Thousands of people have reported that video site YouTube was not working on Friday afternoon. Downdetector, which allows internet users to self-report when a website isn’t working, recorded 265 ...

The UK’s membership explained as it prepares to rejoin the EU education and training programme it left after Brexit The UK is to rejoin Erasmus, the European Union’s education and training scheme, ...

The Academy Awards will begin streaming exclusively on YouTube in 2029, the latest big change in Hollywood. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences made the announcement on Wednesday, saying ...

The whole of the UK - not just its armed forces - needs to step up to deter the threat posed by Russia of a wider war in Europe, Britain's military chief will say. In the kind of nation-wide call to ...

The UK is "rapidly developing" plans to prepare the whole country for the possible outbreak of war, the armed forces minister has said. Underlining the role civilians would have to play in a major ...

02:58, Fri, Dec 5, 2025 Updated: 02:58, Fri, Dec 5, 2025 Liz Truss has sensationally claimed she was "deposed" as Prime Minister by the "deep state" as she prepares to launch a defiant new media ...

You will soon be able to see what you watched most on YouTube in 2025, as the company is releasing personalised recaps for the first time. The Spotify Wrapped-style data will show your top interests, ...

As 2025 comes to an end, the first-ever personalised YouTube Recap has been revealed. The new feature—a detailed, shareable summary of every user's video viewing habits throughout the year—is set to ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...