The Los Angeles Chargers and Kansas City Chiefs helped YouTube set a record during their Week 1 matchup. The game — which was the first-ever NFL contest broadcast on YouTube — set the record for most concurrent viewers of a live stream on the platform, YouTube announced Monday.

Via Jennifer Maas of Variety.com, Chiefs-Chargers drew a global audience of 17.3 million viewers on Friday night, from Brazil. In the U.S., the number was 16.2 million. It's a strong number. It's up from the 14.2 million who watched Packers-Eagles on Peacock for the first Friday night of the season.

A team of researchers led by Ethan Zuckerman at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has devised an ingenious approach to peek behind YouTube's tightly guarded curtain. They...

YouTube has announced that YouTube Shorts, its shortform video platform, has 1.5 billion users each month. It seems TikTok finally has some competition.