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YouTube Recap 2025 marks their first ever Spotify Wrapped style shareable for users’ end of year stats on the video platform. Spotify Wrapped has dropped, so expect socials to go crazy with everyone’s year-end listening stats. The massive success of Wrapped has led many other platforms to launch similar, year end wrap-ups for their users. Now YouTube is joining. YouTube Recap 2025 will take viewers through what they watched this year. The feature is 100% personalised, building the stats directly from users’ YouTube watch history throughout 2025. ouTube Recap 2025 gives you a dynamic, story-style slideshow composed of up to 12 custom cards. It’s designed to capture the true diversity of your viewing habits—from your deep dives into niche topics to the channels you binged most often. The cards highlight: Your Top Channels and interests How your viewing habits evolved over the year Unique moments that defined your viewing journey Discover your YouTube personality type The coolest part of the new YouTube Recap—and the element designed purely for social sharing—is the debut of the viewer personality types. After extensive user feedback and testing (nine rounds, over 50 concepts!), YouTube realized that behind the data were unique personas. Your viewing behaviour

YouTube launched its first Recap, but users say it's inaccurate and barebones. Spotify Wrapped, meanwhile, dominated the internet — again — with new features. Lee Chong Ming/YouTube; Spotify YouTube launched "Recap" on Tuesday, its first year-end roundup for users. While Spotify Wrapped dominated social media this week, YouTube's version barely registered. Some users say Recap fell short, with inaccuracies and missing data. While the internet is buzzing over this year's Spotify Wrapped — especially with its new "listening age" feature — another platform has slipped out its year-end recap with much less fanfare. YouTube unveiled "Recap" on Tuesday, its first attempt at a Wrapped-style experience. The platform said "Recap" is available to US users with a global rollout coming later this week. The feature compiles up to 12 cards that showcase users' top channels, interests, and how their tastes have shifted over time. It also assigns them a viewing personality based on their watch history. Meanwhile, Spotify Wrapped kept its signature stats — minutes listened, top artists, and artist messages — and introduced a slate of new features this year. Users get a "listening age," a fan leaderboard, placement into one of six listening "clubs," and a listening archive that

The Influencer Lilly Gaddis has claimed that her YouTube channel has been demonetized for being “too pro-White.” Gaddis, who has a following of over 240,000 on X and over 60,000 on Instagram, describes herself as a “Free speech enthusiast🇺🇸” in her Instagram bio. She has regularly used racial slurs and worn Black face. Newsweek reached out to Google, YouTube’s parent company, via email and Gaddis via social media, for comment. Why It Matters Gaddis’s name hit the headlines in June 2024 after she used a racial slur in a cooking video shared on TikTok, where it amassed millions of views before her account was suspended. Gaddis ultimately lost her job over the video, but despite the fallout, refused to apologize, and said in a social media video afterward, “All the backlash made me do a deep dive and a soul search, and after all that, I still couldn’t find a care.” Gaddis describes herself as a “tradwife”—a modern-day housewife who embraces traditional gender roles, centering her life around homemaking, child care, and supporting her husband. It is unclear whether Gaddis is married. What To Know In a recent video from her Rumble show, shared on X, she said, “I have

Watch: Australia's social media ban explained... in 60 seconds YouTube says Australia's "rushed" new laws to block teens from its platform will mean children will be less safe as its "robust parental controls" will be stripped away. Parents will "lose their ability to supervise their teen or tween's account" such as content settings or blocking channels from 10 December when a social media ban for under-16s starts. Children will still be able to view videos but without an account. Communications Minister Anika Wells responded by saying it was "outright weird" that YouTube was highlighting the dangers of its platform for children. "If YouTube is reminding us all that it is not safe ... that's a problem that YouTube needs to fix," Wells said on Wednesday. The platform's statement comes as Australia's internet regulator sets her sights on two little-known apps that teens have flocked to in the lead-up to the country's social media ban. Lemon8, owned by the creators behind TikTok, and Yope are video and photo-sharing apps that have seen a rise in downloads recently, prompting eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant to ask them to self-assess if they fall under the ban. The government reversed an exemption for YouTube

The news: Podcast monetization platform Acast unveiled the UK’s largest integrated audio-and-video podcast marketplace, introducing a major YouTube expansion through a new partnership with Little Dot Studios. The deal gives Acast creators access to Little Dot’s 11 billion monthly YouTube views across premium sports, entertainment, and documentary channels—instantly elevating Acast’s inventory to one of the biggest omnichannel offerings in the country. More than 20 top UK podcasts will pilot the program. Together, these shows already generate more than 45 million monthly plays across audio feeds and YouTube. Acast says it now reaches 8 in 10 UK podcast fans weekly. Acast will pair premium CPMs with dynamic YouTube video ads, branded video sponsorships, and unified analytics that combine audio, YouTube, and social performance into a single reporting layer. The beta launches in January 2026, with full rollout later in the year. Why it matters: Video is increasingly central to podcast consumption, especially in the UK. According to EMARKETER, 48% of consumers in Great Britain now prefer watching podcasts , compared with 42% who prefer audio-only. Nearly 4 in 5 listeners worldwide interact with podcast video in some form , per Acast research; 40% primarily listen but watch occasionally, 27% blend formats

(Image credit: Shutterstock) If you want the best Cyber Monday streaming deal on a live TV streaming service, then I have good news. YouTube TV is our top live TV service, and we can offer a discount on your first several months that you won't find anywhere else. Even better, it'll save you up to $100. Right now, you can sign up for YouTube TV for just $62.99 for your first five months . That's $20 a month off the list price, and if you go the full five months, you'll save $100. Don't feel like you have to commit though; on top of your discount, new subscribers also get a free trial. There's a lot to like about YouTube TV. In my YouTube TV review, I found that, while not perfect, it provided the best experience for most people looking to cut the cord. The user interface is easy to use and easy to pick up the first time. You also get killer features like Multiview, which lets you watch up to four channels at once, and catching up to live sports broadcasts with a playlist of key plays. Again, YouTube TV isn't perfect. If you're someone who wants

Monday, December 1st, 2025 – 12:35 am YouTube is more transparent than CTV. Let that sink in.  In 2025, the fastest-growing segment in programmatic media is now less transparent than the walled garden we have spent the last decade criticizing for opacity. And the consequences are already showing up in the market. Look where the major media companies landed this quarter. Disney reported declines in advertising revenue and slowing streaming growth. Comcast showed softness around Peacock. Paramount posted another difficult quarter with widening losses.  Behind closed doors, publishers are telling me that CTV spending is flattening, performance is plateauing and buyers are increasingly hesitant to push budgets further. The reason is not complicated. When buyers cannot see what they are buying, they cannot commit their spend with conviction. On YouTube, a buyer can see the channel title and the exact video where their ad ran (for 30% to 60% of impressions, on average). There is a foundation for measurement and brand safety. Across CTV, you get app-level reporting, and if you’re lucky, a genre label. A small handful of MVPDs offer channel- or network-level transparency. Show-level or program-level data is almost entirely withheld because most publishers fear buyers will cherry-pick

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