Thumbnails play the YouTube equivalent of a movie poster, aiming to draw your attention to click and watch when you have hundreds of videos clogging your recommended ...

A lot of YouTube videos have flashy, misleading titles and thumbnails, such as “BREAKING NEWS” or “The president steps down,” to bait the user into watching ...

Shaquille O'Neal shares how rumors about himself affect him. The NBA legend gets real about clickbait headlines.

YouTube, the internet’s primary video host for nearly two decades now, says it’s ready to start cracking down on “egregious clickbait,” with plans to “increase our enforcement against videos where the ...

DeArrow is an open-source browser extension that replaces clickbait YouTube thumbnails with a simple frame from the video. The tool also changes titles and removes emojis to create a more simple and ...

YouTube is stepping up its fight against misleading content, especially in India. The platform recently announced that it will be cracking down on videos with misleading titles and thumbnails, often ...

Chandraveer, a seasoned mechanical design engineer turned tech reporter and reviewer, brings more than three years of rich experience in consumer tech journalism to the table, having contributed to ...