A country has introduced new rules that dramatically limit how long unskippable video ads can run on platforms like YouTube. The move targets long, forced ads and also bans delays when closing static ...

YouTube is reportedly giving creators more leeway about what they say in videos, easing up on some of the rules it has set in the past. That change, which was reportedly made about a month after ...

YouTube is tweaking its profanity-related rules to allow creators to monetize videos with swearing in them, provided the profanity is limited to the first seven seconds of the video. In November 2022, ...

YouTube is to ease the rules surrounding the use of profanity in videos after introducing new stipulations in late 2022. More advertiser-friendly content guidelines have been adjusted after a creator ...

In the wake of repeated scandals, a new YouTube rule makes it dramatically harder for smaller creators to make money on the platform. But the rule may have no impact on the platform’s worst offenders.

YouTube announced today that it’s relaxing the controversial profanity rules that it introduced toward the end of last year. The company says the new rules ended up creating a “stricter approach” than ...

Recently, on a YouTube channel, I said something terrible, but I don’t know what it was. The main subject of discussion—my reporting on the power of online gurus—was not intrinsically offensive. It ...