News
YouTube is where the world comes for comprehensive and engaging news experiences, across a spectrum of voices and opinions. We've built a thriving news ecosystem, empowering news businesses with tools to support quality journalism and connect with audiences.
Viewers come to YouTube to learn about the world, develop their own viewpoints, and make informed decisions on the issues they care about.
How YouTube Delivers
News
The global rise of streaming and creator-led content has fundamentally transformed how people get informed, and which voices define the conversations that shape society, culture, and politics. Established news publishers are now joined by a growing array of voices â independent journalists, creators, and podcasters â who are introducing fresh mixes of reporting, commentary, and explanatory journalism that todayâs audiences seek.
YouTube is at the forefront of this transformation, delivering a video-first news platform that offers a wide range of perspectives, across the most engaging formats and surfaces â from long-form video to connected TV and podcasts.
How YouTube Elevates
High-Quality News Stories
Our products help users find the stories and information they
want â from national headlines and events to in-depth coverage of global trends and politics.
13B+
There were more than 13 billion average monthly global views of high quality news content on YouTube on Connected TVs in Q1 of 2025.
Source: Internal YouTube data, 2025
News watch page
Our news watch page brings together a collection of news content across multiple formats from live streams to Shorts. On the news watch page, viewers can see sections for the latest updates and most recent video coverage of a news story, as well as commentary and context on the topic. Viewers can open a watch page for a specific news story by clicking on a video with the newspaper icon on the YouTube homepage, news destination page, or in search results.
Breaking news shelf
When a major breaking news moment happens, we want to ensure that high-quality sources can quickly and easily reach audiences with the latest information. Our breaking news shelf appears directly on the homepage, and features news events of national importance.
Top news shelves
Top news shelves on the homepage and in search also connect audiences who are interested in specific topics with relevant results from high-quality sources.
News watch page
Our news watch page brings together a collection of news content across multiple formats from live streams to Shorts. On the news watch page, viewers can see sections for the latest updates and most recent video coverage of a news story, as well as commentary and context on the topic. Viewers can open a watch page for a specific news story by clicking on a video with the newspaper icon on the YouTube homepage, news destination page, or in search results.
Breaking news shelf
When a major breaking news moment happens, we want to ensure that high-quality sources can quickly and easily reach audiences with the latest information. Our breaking news shelf appears directly on the homepage, and features news events of national importance.
Top news shelves
Top news shelves on the homepage and in search also connect audiences who are interested in specific topics with relevant results from high-quality sources.
How YouTube Supports Journalists & News Creators
We offer a range of tools and resources to help journalists and newsrooms create and deliver their content to audiences worldwide.
YouTube hosts programs to support the strategic scaling and sustainability of news partners and offers dedicated support from our team and monetization opportunities through the YouTube Partner Program. Because when quality journalism thrives, society benefits.
