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YouTube TV drops more good news to subscribers after Disney deal

Nov 20, 2025

Google’s YouTube and The Walt Disney Company confirmed on Nov. 14 they had reached an agreement to restore Disney-owned networks on YouTube TV, after two weeks of blackout.

The dispute left millions of subscribers without access to popular Disney channels, including ABC, ESPN, The Disney Channel, FX, and Nat Geo.

“We’re happy to share that we’ve reached a deal to continue carrying Disney content. We appreciated your patience while we negotiated on your behalf. Any recordings that were previously in your library and your personal preferences/recommendations will be just as you left them. We’ll be launching your local ABC stations as quickly as we can, and they should be accessible shortly,” reads the notice on YouTube TV Help page.

YouTube also reminded subscribers that they can still claim their $20 credit for YouTube TV until December 9, 2025.

On Sunday, Nov. 9, the streaming giant started issuing eligible YouTube TV subscribers a $20 credit. While this might seem like a reasonable move, given that the subscribers who regularly pay for content had suddenly lost access to many important channels, many users found it strange that the credit wasn’t applied automatically and needed to be claimed manually.

The dispute, centered around carriage fees, is now resolved. Although the new terms of the deal were not made public, Google is keeping its promise on a $20 credit.

YouTube TV has also dropped more good news for its subscribers.

YouTube TV rolls out a new 24-hour sports channel: the NBC Sports Network
On Nov. 17, YouTube TV was first to launch a brand-new 24-hour linear channel NBC Sports Network. The network existed previously, but was discontinued in 2022. The relaunch is a new iteration of NBC Sports Network.

NBCUniversal confirmed on Nov. 13 it will roll out the new NBC Sports Network (NBCSN). Featuring a wide range of marquee sporting events and programming from NBC Sports, NBCSN will be available exclusively through participating pay-TV distributors, launching first for all YouTube TV subscribers and soon on Xfinity, with other distributors to be announced at a later date, according to the press release.

What does this mean for YouTube TV subscribers?

YouTube TV subscribers now have access to NBCUniversal’s extensive sports portfolio that also streams on Peacock, enabling users to enjoy live games across major sports.

Events and programming on the new NBC Sports Network:
Monday Night NBA games and NBA Playoffs

Premier League soccer matches

Gold Zone hosted by Scott Hanson (daily whip-around coverage for Milan Cortina Olympic Winter Games in February 2026)

WNBA Regular Season and Playoff games

Big Ten and Notre Dame Football

Big Ten, Big East and Big 12 Men’s and Women’s Basketball

Golf Majors (includes select coverage of U.S. Open and The Open Championship)

Cycling (Tour de France, Tour de France Femmes; Vuelta a España, and more)

Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks undercard races

Olympic Sports (e.g., Figure Skating, Ski & Snowboard, Gymnastics, Swimming, Track & Field)

Popular shows, including "PFT Live," "The Dan Patrick Show," "The Dan Le Batard Show," and "Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry"

NBCSN is also expected to include dozens of MLB regular-season and select post-season games in a soon-to-be-announced deal, according to NBC Sports.

“This launch arrives at a pivotal moment for sports broadcasting, as networks navigate the dual pressures of cord-cutting trends and escalating media rights costs," writes Luke Bouma for Cord Cutters News.

"NBCUniversal’s approach cleverly bridges linear TV’s reliability with streaming’s convenience, allowing viewers to access content seamlessly across Peacock, pay-TV apps like YouTube TV, or hybrid setups.”

Subscribers share mixed reactions to NBCSN relaunch on YouTube TV
Adding more sports options to its offering is a good move for YouTube TV, because a huge number of subscribers favor live sports offerings.

In fact, “forty-three percent of Gen Z and millennials surveyed indicate a willingness to pay more for streaming video subscriptions that include access to live sports, although their engagement with live content remains to be seen,” according to the Deloitte Center for Technology, Media & Telecommunications 2025 Digital Media Trends survey.

The news quickly reached Reddit, where users shared their opinions, largely supporting NBC’s decision to bring back NBCSN via YouTube TV.

“Nice! While I haven't missed a college football game due to the Disney dispute, I have needed to flop over to Peacock for a few games. Having the YTTV features (catch up, quad screen, DVR without ads) will be really nice,” wrote user totallyjaded.

User Creekridge1 seconded that enthusiasm, saying “Big news for premier league watchers. The old NBC sports network was very solid.”

InvestigatorQuiet704 highlighted, “Also going to be great for college football can have it on YouTube TV now without having to watch on just Peacock. Also the Gold Zone channel during the Olympics will be on this channel.”

Some users were displeased that it is a linear channel (only one event at a time), arguing it's not a substitute for Peacock’s streaming flexibility.

User M337ING wrote, “Ok, but this is a linear service meaning it’s only 1 event at a time. It’s nowhere near a replacement for a streaming service with multiple events.”

A few are wary of potential future price increases tied to the expanded content, even though a fee hike has not been announced.

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How Search Off the Record tackles SEO and web development
https://youtube.com/watch?v=x1_FS61AzLM

Celebrate the 100th episode of Search Off the Record with Martin, Lizzi, Cherry, John and Gary as they revisit memorable moments, touching on a bunch of topics. This special episode touches on Google's mobile-first indexing, the intricacies of the Caffeine indexing system, and a deep dive into JavaScript scoping – and hoisting. You'll hear again about optimizing documentation traffic and the delightful world of Google Doodles. Discover key insights that impact your SEO strategies and web development practices.
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Chapters: 0:00 - Welcome and 100th Episode Intro 2:21 - Lizzi's favorite: SEO starter guide readings 3:01 - Gary on Mobile-First Indexing Importance 3:39 - Revamping the SEO starter guide 5:13 - Meta tags and Google's indexing system 9:11 - Cherry's use of podcasts for work 12:09 - Deep dive into caffeine indexing 13:59 - The mechanics of data conversion in caffeine 16:12 - John's favorite: The magic of Google Doodles 23:30 - JavaScript ccoping and hoisting 25:47 - Optimizing documentation traffic 29:29 - Conclusion: 100 Episodes of Search Off the Record

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Optimizing login-page content for Google Search
https://youtube.com/watch?v=nMZ0FZoRbvI

Explore critical aspects of search engine optimization for web content that lives behind a login or paywall. In this episode, Martin and John cover how Googlebot interacts with these pages, the role of paywall structured data, and methods to prevent unintended indexing of private information. Get practical advice on improving your website's visibility and user experience while maintaining data security in Google Search. Resources:
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Lazy loading demystified
https://youtube.com/watch?v=XgkhNF1gDKA

Optimize your website's performance with lazy loading techniques. In this episode, John Mueller and Martin Splitt discuss lazy loading, and its SEO implications. Find out how lazy loading affects indexing, ranking, and Core Web Vitals. Whether you're using native lazy loading or custom JavaScript libraries, this episode provides insights for developers on how to enhance website speed and user experience.
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SEO for photographers: websites, social media, and Google Search
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5sJPKghoUeU&t=1s

In this episode of Search Off The Record, John and Martin explore the intersection of SEO and photography. Is a website essential for photographers, or is social media enough? Martin, a technical SEO expert and photography enthusiast, dives into the challenges of building a photography website, optimizing images, and attracting the right audience. Whether you're a professional photographer or a hobbyist, this podcast offers valuable insights into how Search Engine Optimization can help you showcase your work and connect with your audience. Find out how to make your images more findable, understand your website's performance, and navigate the ever-changing landscape of digital marketing for photographers. Martin shares his experience building his own photography website and the challenges he faced with SEO for his personal website.
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“…for the most part you can just try things out. One of the nice parts about websites is, often, if you’re using a CMS, you can just edit the page and it’s live, and it’s done. It’s not that you have to do some big, elaborate …work to put it live.”

“It’s very easy to try things out, let it sit for a couple of weeks, see what happens and kind of monitor to see is it doing what you want it to be doing. I guess, at that point, when we talk about monitoring, you probably need to make sure that you have the various things installed so that you actually see what is happening. Perhaps set up Search Console for your website so that you see the searches that people are doing. And, of course, some way to measure the goal that you want, which could be something perhaps in Analytics or perhaps there’s, I don’t know, some other way that you track in person if you have a physical store, like are people actually coming to my business after seeing my website, because it’s all well and good to do SEO, but if you have no way of understanding has it even changed anything, you don’t even know if you’re on the right track or recognize if something is going wrong.”

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Inside Search Quality: Using metrics and data science to improve Search
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In this episode of SOTR, Lizzi and John sit down with Elizabeth Tucker to go behind the scenes of Search Quality product management. Listen along as they discuss using data science to measure quality and make improvements, how search behavior is changing over time, and how to think about E-E-A-T and the Search Quality Rater Guidelines. (Credit: Google)

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Search Off the Record takes you behind the scenes of Google Search and its inner workings! In each episode, the folks from the Search Relations team will give you background info on the decision-making behind launches, feature prioritization in Search Console, and the projects Google Search teams are working on. They will share fun stories from the many conferences they attend as well as from their day-to-day working life at Google. They will also dive into the currently trending conversations in the SEO community at large. Have a listen! (Google)

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MrBeast is a YouTube megastar. Can he make it in business?

Even creators with hundreds of millions of followers can find their names mean little to older audiences, hampering their chances of building a brand outside social media.

One of the most popular YouTubers in the world is a tall, rather awkward 25-year-old from North Carolina called Jimmy Donaldson, better known to his fans as MrBeast. He has more online followers than Elon Musk, makes millions of dollars in ad revenue and wants to turn his devoted subscriber base into a business. But swapping virtual fame for the real world is tricky.

If you didn’t spend your teenage years glued to YouTube, Donaldson’s success may come as a surprise. The videos he makes are reminiscent of MTV’s Jackass: there is a lot of shouting and elaborate stunts. Escapades include squashing a sports car in a hydraulic press and running a train into a brick wall.

Recently, more of his work has had a philanthropic bent. Video titles trade in big, eye-catching numbers: “1000 Deaf People Hear For The First Time”, for example.

Donaldson does not have the attributes you might associate with superstardom. He has grown in confidence but can still look uncomfortable on camera. While his videos follow the faux-casual YouTube style of fast cuts and shots of friends laughing, he rarely looks relaxed.

Yet his comment section glows with respect. Under a video of him sitting in a chair and counting to 10,000, one viewer wrote “This is hardwork and dedication at its finest! His patience and mental fortitude is beyond; don’t know how or where he gets the motivation.”

The question for Donaldson and other online stars is what comes next. Even the most successful content creator lives at the mercy of social media company algorithms, moderators and the vicissitudes of digital advertising. Whoever owns the platform sets the rules.

YouTube, owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, is trying to persuade more creators to upload short videos to compete with TikTok. TikTok has been threatened with bans in the US. As creators gain more followers, lack of control can start to chafe. Autonomy becomes a prized possession.

Content creation is gruelling work too, since audiences demand a constant stream of new videos – another incentive to build up offline businesses. He may be young, but it has taken Donaldson a while to reach his 178 million subscribers. He started posting on YouTube when he was 11.

'Hyper obsessed’ with going viral

Speaking to podcaster Joe Rogan a year ago, Donaldson described himself as “hyper obsessed” with the platform. He studied ways to make videos go viral, looking at how bright thumbnail images for videos were, for example. His own are cartoony and hyper-real.

MrBeast videos are a model of the genre: not too long and opened with explainers that are useful for viewers with wavering attention spans.

He likes to get other famous YouTubers involved too. Recently, Felix Kjellberg – aka PewDiePie (111 million YouTube subscribers) – joined him on a rollercoaster in Japan.

As his audience grows, so do the number of businesses. As well as the 55 per cent of video ad revenue he gets through YouTube’s partner program, his business endeavours include a ghost kitchen called MrBeast Burger and a chocolate bar company called Feastables, plus investments in other creators via a fintech called Creative Juice.

Earlier this year, Donaldson tweeted out an idea to sell parts of his businesses “for billions of dollars”. He had previously mentioned the idea of an initial public offering. Last year, news website Axios reported that he was considering external funding that would value his business empire at about $US1.5 billion ($2.3 billion). In tech parlance, this would make him a unicorn.

Celebrity-run businesses are not new. In the late ’90s, David Bowie issued asset-backed securities based on revenues from his albums. George Clooney used to sell tequila. Rihanna has a make-up line.

For online stars who trade in views, however, valuations are still a work in progress. Even YouTube megastars can find that their names mean little to older audiences, hampering their chances of building a brand outside social media.

In 2022, an online media company made up of 93 content creators and esports competitors joined markets via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company. The FaZe Clan, as they call themselves, claimed it had more than 500 million followers across multiple platforms such as YouTube, TikTok and Twitch. Revenue comes from sources including ads on videos and brand deals that include the gruesome sounding Orange Chicken Pizza Roll.

But market interest in FaZe Holdings does not bode well for Donaldson. SPACs tend to open at $US10 a share. FaZe Holdings now trades at less than 30 cents a share.

Donaldson’s enthusiasm for an IPO appears to have waned. He sued Virtual Dining Concepts, the company behind Beast Burger, following customer complaints, and was counter-sued in response. All the while, the videos keep coming. Escaping the confines of YouTube is going to be difficult.

YouTube Shorts Now Available On TV - November 7, 2022

Google-owned video sharing platform rolls out short-form vertical players optimized for television screens.

By Brian Frederick

YouTube Shorts are now available in a television-optimized format, the company announced today via a blog post.

Owners of Android TVs or Google TVs will now be able to view short-form videos via the YouTube app.

YouTube Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan said in the blog:

“While this may seem like a natural next step, an incredible amount of thought and care has gone into bringing this vertical, mobile-first experience to the big screen.”

Before this release, there was no convenient way for viewers to watch vertical videos in landscape orientation. Now, you can play vertical clips in a clean, white-bordered format that uses the wider screen’s additional space to include information about the video, including title, audio format, creator names, and the like/dislike icons.

New Functionality Intended To Facilitate Community Viewing

YouTube researched users’ preferred format before releasing this new functionality, seeking to preserve what it called the “essence of Shorts” while encouraging viewing with others on a larger screen.

Mohan continues:

“As YouTube continues to make it easier to interact on TV, the richness of the Shorts experience will only grow. Bringing Shorts to TV is a great bridge to bring two of our most important experiences together to benefit both creators and viewers. Over the coming weeks, this experience will be rolling out on TV models (2019 and later) and on newer game consoles.”

The Google-owned video-sharing platform experimented with employing a conventional video player and a “jukebox” style format, in which multiple Shorts would display simultaneously, before finally settling on a layout with a clean design that still takes advantage of the television’s additional screen space.

Move Latest Attempt By YouTube To Compete With TikTok

Recognizing the power TikTok wields in the short-form video sphere, many other companies, including Google and Facebook, have sought to claim a share of the market to varying degrees of success.

YouTube Shorts has been one of the more successful platforms in this format, reaching 30 million daily views in April of this year, a massive number for a service that was launched as a beta version in India in September 2020 before going live in the U.S. in March of the following year.

The release of Shorts for televisions should provide YouTube with a significant advantage over competitors, as most smart TVs come with the YouTube app already installed, as opposed to downloading a separate app, ala TikTok.

Viewing Shorts only requires users to open the app and look for a carousel on the homepage. You can also view Shorts directly from a creator’s channel.

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SEJ on YouTube Shorts hitting the big screen TV by Brian. A call to action perhaps to create more YT Shorts and Google friendly content. Could this almost be a preemptive strike against Netflix with gaming strategy and marketing plans? Everything is competing with everything right? How about in part to counter Microsoft, TikTok and maybe even Musk's Twitter in the bud, or at least build on market penetration and pop culture infiltration, build views on interactive, while reducing churn? Perhaps we're looking into this too deep, but maybe not! The battle for eyeballs, hearts, minds, loyalty and revenue continues! The latest chapter in the big book entitled 'The Internet Matrix Of Things'. PS: still pleased we paid to have the YouTube ads removed, but now Netflix ads are sneaking up on us. The game of business.

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