In 2025, YouTube generated $40.4 billion in ad revenue. That alone would be a major milestone for a streaming platform. But the real headline is what that number eclipses: the combined ad revenue of Disney, NBCUniversal, Paramount, and Warner Bros. Discovery totaled just $37.8 billion. YouTube—with its primarily user-generated content—surpassing the major studios in ad revenue signals a major shift in the media landscape.
According to Cosmic Book News, the backlash for the Supergirl trailer has been more severe in its first 24 hours on YouTube than the Superman trailer received its first six months. Keen-eyed viewers of the Supergirl trailer noticed that while Superman was celebrated for saving a town, all she’d done was rescue some cats. Now, it seems she’s failing to measure up in another, more quantifiable way.
The Academy Awards are moving to YouTube in 2029. It’s the end of an era, as ABC has broadcast the Oscars since 1976.
The long-running YouTube TV Disney blackout has finally reached its conclusion. After close to two weeks of stalled negotiations, disappearing channels, and a rising wave of subscriber frustration, the two companies have confirmed that a new distribution agreement has been reached.
For the second time in as many years, the standoff between Google’s YouTube TV and The Walt Disney Company has left millions of households without ABC, ESPN, FX, and a long list of other Disney-owned networks. The dispute began when their carriage agreement expired just before midnight ET on October 30, 2025 — and now, as frustrated viewers sit through another weekend without football or Disney primetime TV, YouTube TV is trying to calm the outrage with a small financial olive branch: a $20 credit.
In late October 2025, Disneyland Resort hosted a special event where 40 children from Make-A-Wish Foundation had their wishes granted in collaboration with Disney, YouTube, and philanthropist MrBeast. This marked the first time such a partnership brought together top creators to deliver personalized experiences for wish children.
Disney tried throwing a Hail Mary ahead of today’s Election Day coverage — and YouTube TV swatted it away.
With Election Day approaching, Disney has formally asked YouTube TV to restore access to ABC following a carriage dispute that removed the network from the platform late last week.
It finally happened — the long-brewing tension between streaming titan Google and entertainment empire Disney spilled out into the open last night, leaving millions of subscribers staring at blank screens where ESPN, ABC, FX, and other networks once lived. The YouTube TV Disney negotiation war has escalated, and viewers are caught in the crossfire.
Late Thursday night into Friday morning (around 11:30 pm–12:00 am ET, October 30→31, 2025), all Disney-owned linear networks, including ABC (and local ABC stations), ESPN’s suite of channels, FX, Freeform, Disney Channel, and National Geographic, were removed from YouTube TV after the companies failed to reach a new carriage agreement before the prior deal expired. Viewers reported the channels going dark just before the midnight deadline.
In a stunning revelation of political censorship, Google has revealed that the Biden Administration pressured the company to remove YouTube content creators who had not violated the platform’s terms of service.
The Charlie Kirk Memorial in Arizona on Sunday, September 21st, was not only noteworthy for its content and its fervent expression of Christian faith, defiant in the face of evil. No, the event was also shocking to much of the world in terms of viewership... both...
The controversy swirling around Sucker Punch Productions, Sony, and the upcoming Ghost of Yotei continues to deepen. Now, accusations of censorship are being leveled at PlayStation after YouTuber YellowFlash claimed his heavily upvoted comment on the latest Ghost of Yotei trailer was hidden from public view.