YouTube Premium subscribers will receive access to Peacock at no additional charge under a sweeping new partnership between YouTube and NBCUniversal.
YouTube Premium subscribers will receive access to Peacock at no additional charge under a sweeping new partnership between YouTube and NBCUniversal.
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.
In the world of television, an unmistakable new media shift shift is underway as YouTube has dominated legacy cable outlets in TV viewership. YouTube has surged ahead of Disney, NBCUniversal, Fox, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Paramount, claiming the title of America’s most-watched TV platform. The numbers are staggering — and for the legacy giants, sobering.
The Walt Disney Company is facing yet another controversy, this time not in the form of box office misfires or declining theme park attendance, but in the realm of online privacy. According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Disney improperly labeled YouTube videos targeted at children, which allowed the unlawful collection of personal data from under-13 viewers.
The result: a $10 million settlement and a new compliance program that puts Disney under regulatory scrutiny for years to come.
Walt Disney Imagineering has brought back Imagineer That!, a short-form educational video series originally produced for the Disney Channel. The revived version features the return of Tom Morrow 2.0, a character introduced in the early 2000s as a host and mascot at EPCOT’s Innoventions. The new series debuted on the official Walt Disney Imagineering YouTube channel on August 24, 2025.
The Oscars may soon be streaming in a very different way. According to a Bloomberg report, YouTube has officially entered the race to secure broadcast rights for the Oscars once the current deal with ABC ends in 2028. If successful, the Google-owned giant would become the first digital platform to host film’s biggest night.