California is so fed up with loud ads on streaming services that Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law to force them to play ads ...

Mr. Hayes is the author of “The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource” and the host of ...

Starting next year, streamers will be banned from airing commercials at a louder volume than the content being watched.

Advertisements are a known consequence of online life in 2025. When you watch a YouTube video, scroll through social media, or open an article like this one you’re reading right now, it’s normal and ...

To avoid AdBlock detection on YouTube, stick to reliable and frequently updated ad-blockers, try disabling JavaScript when detection warnings appear, change your DNS ...

With full-screen ads on its smart displays, Alexa is becoming less like an assistant and more like a sales rep.

In two decades, the app has grown from a user-generated circus into the most powerful platform on earth. CEO Neal Mohan on ...

YouTube is currently the leading video-streaming platform in the world. That means most people spend hours on it, consuming the video content, getting entertained, learning something, or just watching ...

The EU’s aim with the law is to shine a light on who is really behind political ads – to expose “dark money” or foreign ...

YouTube users are experiencing extremely long, unskippable ads, sometimes up to an hour long. There’s a good chance that ad blockers might be contributing to the issue. Google maintains that it ...

The AFL grand final was the most watched program of 2025, with a national TV audience of more than four million. Approximately 750,000 viewers were under the age of 20. I was therefore surprised to be ...

The ad battle is stark: Democracy is under attack, and it’s up to voters to save it. By Nick Corasaniti California residents tuning into a 49ers game or loading up a YouTube video over the past month ...