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Claim: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt debated Stephen Colbert on his late-night talk show. Rating: In mid-April 2025, claims (archived) circulated online that White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt had a heated debate with Stephen Colbert on his late-night talk show. The claim mainly featured (archived) in YouTube (archived) videos, the first (archived) of which was posted on Feb. 24, 2025. A version of the claim posted on April 18, 2025, was titled: "Karoline Leavitt Fires Back on Stephen Colbert's Show After a Shocking Accusation." Other versions (archived) had titles such as: "Karoline Leavitt SHUTS DOWN Stephen Colbert After His Insane On-Air Attack" and "Karoline Leavitt Just HUMILIATED Stephen Colbert and Stephen ERUPTS!" In videos touting the claim, Colbert allegedly quizzed Leavitt on topics including U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs, the exclusion of certain outlets from the White House press pool and whether traditional news outlets had lost touch with the American people. The videos described how Leavitt's responses stunned audiences and allegedly left Colbert scrambling. However, Leavitt did not appear on Colbert's "Late Show." A White House spokesperson said a video detailing Leavitt's alleged appearance on The Late Show posted on Feb. 24, 2025, was "fake." Leavitt's name

YouTube Music is getting an extra audio setting (Image credit: YouTube) A 'consistent volume' setting is spotted in YouTube MusicIt should prevent tracks being wildly different in their volume levelsNot everyone is getting the feature right awayHaving a track come crashing in at an unexpectedly high volume level – or being much quieter than what's come before – isn't a great listening experience, and it's something YouTube Music is aiming to prevent with its latest feature update.As spotted by the team at 9to5Google, a new option called 'consistent volume' is now making its way to the YouTube Music apps for Android and iOS. The idea is, all your tracks, no matter where you've got them from, will use a similar volume range.Loud songs will still be loud and quiet songs will still be quiet of course, but it should help with tracks that have been recorded or converted at noticeably different volume levels, so your ears know more or less what to expect.The feature follows on from the 'stable volume' feature that's been available across different YouTube apps for some time. It's also something you can find inside Spotify's range of apps, where it's called 'audio normalization'.Slowly appearingIt seems that

Thirteen years after launching, YouTube's stageside view into Coachella has become an invaluable resource for fans, and a huge opportunity for artists. Alberto Montenegro of Rawayana performs at the Gobi Tent during the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at Empire Polo Club on April 12, 2025 in Indio, Calif. Arturo Holmes/Getty Images for Coachella To decorate their Coachella stage like a beach party in their seaside home region of La Guaira, Venezuela, Rawayana hauled in inflatable SUVs, palm trees and tiki huts — all designed to make the Grammy-winning band’s YouTube festival livestream last weekend more colorful and magnetic. “It’s a live TV broadcast,” says Carlos Framil, Rawayana’s co-manager. “They knew it was going to be livestreamed. It was a prominent part of the strategic planning.” The plan paid off. Rawayana’s streams, and ticket sales for its upcoming tour, spiked in the days after the first-weekend performance, narrated as part of YouTube’s new “Watch With” program by influencers Bryan and Eddy Skabeche. “We’re seeing it as a Coachella bump,” says Framil, of Miami-based Sound of Light. “And we’re attributing that to the livestream.” Trending on Billboard Coachella’s live YouTube feed, now in its 13th year, is the “gold

News and Events By Joel Meares, Contributor, YouTube Official Blog Apr 18, 2025 – ] minute read From multiview to Watch With, a YouTube employee shares his experience livestreaming Coachella. Watching Lady Gaga light up the screen in my living room. About midway through her Friday night set at Coachella in Indio, California, Lady Gaga declared that—as a romantic gesture to the crowd—she “decided to build you an opera house in the desert.”And she had, complete with Roman columns, a giant sandbox, a giant-er chess board, and all the drama of Madama Butterfly. Dancing around her grand, gothic set for almost two hours, belting out everything from classics like “Bad Romance” to new tracks like “Abracadabra,” Gaga kept her monsters roaring.About 7,500 miles from the stage on which Gaga was triggering an alarming number of flashbacks to the Saturday nights of my early twenties, the star had also built an opera house on a 75-inch flatscreen in my living room in Sydney, Australia.More people than ever are tuning into YouTube’s Coachella livestream from different corners of the world, with non-U.S. viewership on the festival’s official channel doubling between 2019 and 2024. And this year, I decided to join them. The

If you had told Jonathan Cheek when he attended his first Mass that in a few years’ time, his whole family would be Catholic and he would be filming a YouTube series about the faith, he wouldn’t have believed you. Cheek has worked at Arkansas Nuclear One since 2008, the same year he married his wife Jessica. Together, they have two daughters, Presley, 12, and Peyton, 10. Jessica grew up Methodist, and Jonathan began attending church with a friend in college. But growing up, Jonathan didn’t attend church. “One of the reasons we didn’t go to church on Sundays was because Dad wanted to work in the yard, work on our race cars, work on other stuff. Work was how I made it through college. I didn’t have a backup plan. I didn’t have anybody paying for it,” he said. As Jonathan and his wife started a family, he realized he wanted to lead his family in faith — but that meant he had a lot to learn. “As soon as I had a break from a shift at work, I would wake up at 1 and 2 in the morning to study the Bible for hours before work,” he said. Jonathan was determined to figure

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Earlier this week we brought news that South Korean content is now second only to the U.S. on Netflix, but it appears Korean audiences are opting for YouTube over the streamer. According to new research from Digital-i, which examined YouTube viewing for the first time, South Korean people with active YouTube accounts spent a whopping 210 minutes (3 hours 30 minutes) per day watching the platform in the final quarter of last year, which was second only to Japan (214 minutes) in the countries measured. Koreans who subscribe to Netflix spent less than half that time (96 minutes) watching the streamer, which airs Korean hits like Squid Game, Love Next Door and Queen of Tears. Watch on Deadline Digital-i found by far and away the biggest gap between YouTube and Netflix viewing in Japan and South Korea, with other nations much more equal. In the U.S., active Netflix subs watched 117 minutes of Netflix per day in Q4 2024 while the figure for YouTube was 97. In the UK, the figures were 89 and 95 respectively. Italy had the biggest gap in the opposite direction, with 91 minutes viewed daily on Netflix versus 54 on YouTube. The research niftily demonstrates

YouTube got some help from an Australian minister to avoid the social media ban for teens in the country, which affected TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and other platforms, a report claims. According to documents obtained under freedom-of-information laws, Australian Communications Minister Michelle Rowland reportedly gave a personal guarantee to YouTube CEO Neal Mohan that the platform would be exempted from the under-16s social-media ban even before the official consultation process on the special immunity. This exclusion of YouTube from the looming Australian restrictions has angered rivals, including Meta Platforms Inc. and Snapchat operator Snap Inc. Last month, TikTok described the exemption of Alphabet Inc.-owned YouTube as a “sweetheart deal” that was “illogical, anti-competitive and short-sighted.”TikTok-parent ByteDance has argued that YouTube’s short-form videos are “virtually indistinguishable” from its own. Commenting on YouTube’s exclusion from Australia’s age-limit rules, the Chinese social media company said that it “would be akin to banning the sale of soft drinks to minors but exempting Coca-Cola.”How Australian minister helped YouTube avoid social media banIn a letter dated December 9, 2024 (seen by Bloomberg), written days after the bill passed parliament, Rowland said to Mohan that she was writing to “reaffirm the commitment” to exclude YouTube from the new

Datalign Advisory Welcomes YouTube Engineering Pioneer Andy Berkheimer as Chief Technology Officer Datalign Advisory, an AI-powered company connecting Americans with trusted financial advisors, has appointed Andy Berkheimer as Chief Technology Officer. In this role, the senior engineering executive will lead Datalign's growing engineering team and advance its generative AI and machine learning (ML) capabilities to meet surging demand for personalizedandtrustedfinancial guidance. Across his 25-year career, Berkheimer has led teams building consumer and enterprise facing platforms that transformed how billions of people engage with technology. In his decade-plus tenure at YouTube, he guided the platform through three critical phases: scaling high-quality video delivery to billions of users, leading the transition to mobile and smart TVs, and the ensuing transformation into a highly personalized destination during a period of tremendous growth. Most recently at Meta's Reality Labs, he applied this same expertise in the frontier of technology innovation to next-generation enterprise collaboration tools. Datalign recently secured a $9 million investment following 300% year-over-year growth. In 2024, the company matched $40 billion in assets with over 7,000 trusted advisors. To help lead its next phase of growth, Datalign has brought on Berkheimer, an MIT graduate returning to his Cambridge roots. "Datalign is transforming

YouTube logo   Google is reviewing a plan to launch a new YouTube Premium subscription in Korea that excludes YouTube Music.   The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) said Tuesday that it is currently negotiating a consent decision with Google Korea over an ongoing case concerning the YouTube Premium pricing model.   Related Article   A consent decision allows the FTC to suspend its review if the company under investigation voluntarily offers remedies to resolve consumer harm. It functions as a form of self-regulation.   Last July, the FTC sent Google a review report, equivalent to a prosecutor’s indictment, arguing that bundling YouTube Music with YouTube Premium violates fair trade laws.   In response, Google proposed its own corrective measures during the review process.   The FTC believes Google leveraged YouTube’s dominant market position by forcibly bundling YouTube Music with Premium subscriptions, thereby unfairly hindering other music streaming services from operating in the Korean market.   A comparison between YouTube Premium and YouTube Lite subscription models   With negotiations underway, there is growing attention on whether a “YouTube Premium Lite” plan — which excludes YouTube Music — will be introduced in Korea.   The Lite plan offers ad-free