At YouTube, we’re committed to connecting you with content from high quality news sources to help you stay up to date on the latest events. Below, you can learn more about how we elevate high quality content through our news features.
YouTube News Features
We’ve developed several features to help you connect with the latest news on YouTube. These features use signals from Google News to identify news moments and top stories of the day.
The videos that surface in YouTube news features are algorithmically generated based on several signals, which may include, but are not limited to:
- Local relevance and language
- Relevance to news topic or event
- Freshness of content
- Live streams
- Reporting intent, or videos with journalistic context
- YouTube’s standard recommendation signals
- Follow YouTube’s Community Guidelines
- Association with websites whose content surfaces in Google News
The individual YouTube news features below may not be available in all countries/regions and languages.
Breaking News shelf on the Homepage
When there’s a significant news event, a Breaking News shelf may surface on the YouTube homepage. Examples of significant news events may include large-scale tragedies or momentous political occurrences. The shelf will surface for signed-in users that are 18 years old and older. If you’re not interested in this shelf, you can dismiss the Breaking News shelf on the homepage. The shelf prioritizes reporting videos. Raw footage of a news event, commentary or opinion content, or satire may appear less often on the Breaking News shelf.
Top News shelf in Search
If you search for a specific news story on YouTube, you may notice a Top News shelf in your search results. The Top News shelf will show up regardless of age and can’t be dismissed.
Top News shelf on your homepage
If you often watch or search for news on YouTube, a Top News shelf may show on your homepage. The Top News shelf includes content related to the top news stories of the day. This shelf will show up for signed in users regardless of age.
YouTube.com/news
YouTube.com/news highlights the top news stories and videos of the day. On youtube.com/news, you may also notice some experimental features.
News Watch page
The News Watch page will bring together news stories on YouTube to help viewers deep dive.
The watch page will feature stories across multiple formats including:
- Latest Updates, with the most recent video coverage of the news story.
- Explanations and Commentary, with additional context on the news topic.
- Live News, with live streams showing what’s happening in the moment.
- Shorts, to quickly catch up on the news story’s latest updates.
You can open the watch page for a specific news story by clicking on a video with the newspaper icon on the YouTube homepage, youtube.com/news, or in search results.
Submitting feedback
If you have any feedback or suggestions for news features on YouTube, you can:
- Submit feedback via More
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- Send us feedback using the Menu from your profile picture.
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