That’s a lot of cat videos. YouTube has been crowned the world’s largest media company, riding a years-long wave of user-generated videos — including millions of cat videos — to surge past even Walt ...

Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox. The poet and critic Randall Jarrell once said that a poet is someone who “manages ...

LOS ANGELES — In closing arguments for the first social media addiction trial to make tech giants face a jury, the plaintiff's lawyer lambasted social platforms for profiting from users' attention, ...

The influential financial research firm MoffettNathanson suggests that the Google-owned video platform passed Disney's media business in 2025. By Alex Weprin Senior Editor YouTube‘s cultural influence ...

An expert witness in a case brought by a California woman against Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, testified that the design features of its social media apps are addictive, ...

The world's biggest social media companies face several landmark trials this year that seek to hold them responsible for harms to children who use their platforms. Opening statements in one such trial ...

President Trump said in a recent executive order that the policy of the U.S. is “to promote democracy, the principle of free expression and press, the rule of law, and respect for human rights ...

Annalee Schott used to live in rural Colorado where the farm, the barn, and the horses were her happy place. But online she was drawn into a dark world. The 18-year-old’s TikTok algorithm allegedly ...

Australia recently decided to try something ambitious. Starting late last year, all children under 16 have been banned from having accounts on social-media sites such as TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram ...

Today, we live inside a streaming media blizzard. Streaming media today is a pervasive environment, not an optional activity. Think about the many protests, riots and other types of incidents that we ...

This exclusive WrapPRO/NRG research report identifies the critical storylines for the year ahead, from AI to sports streaming to a pushback on franchise films. As the entertainment and media ...

A year of industry shakeups led to an increase in entertainment and media layoffs by 18% (Christopher Smith/TheWrap) After a slight dip in layoffs in 2024, the entertainment and media industry jobs ...