Brazil's biggest YouTube star is a blue hen named Galinha Pintadinha (Lottie Dottie) out to take over the world.

Children are stumbling across foul language, violence and sexual content on YouTube, but keeping them safe online is increasingly falling to parents.

A New Zealand man with no arms has set the world alight with demonstrations of his skills at shaving his face and igniting a lighter.

Consumer groups say that YouTube Kids is filled with inappropriate content, including pornographic cartoons.

Delta Air Lines has taken a leaf out of Air New Zealand's book in releasing a viral new in-flight safety video.

To mark its 10th anniversary, YouTube has released a playlist of some of the site's most popular dance videos from the past decade.

A social experiment published on YouTube shows just how easily a stranger can walk away with a child.

YouTube Kids is under fire from consumer groups as a complaint has been filed with the FTC about advertising.

Danna Gomez wields a mascara wand like a pro and knows the exact method for creating the illusion of high cheekbones - but this hot new YouTube star is only five years old.

YouTube on Monday premiered videos from 14 musicians as it tried a new, virtual-only format for the second edition of its music awards.

The inspirational woman has hit back at the trolls with an anti-bullying documentary about her life, describing her battle with a rare condition which stops her putting on weight.

By putting power directly in the hands of viewers, the internet’s third-most-visited site has revolutionised our media consumption.

Video-sharing site YouTube has just turned 10 years old - that's almost old age on the internet.

This may simply be a video of a dog in a spider outfit, but the man who created it made sure it was scary enough to make real people run for cover.

Our growing ability to access on-demand entertainment is all well and good, writes Greg Dixon, but what we really need is more time.

Shortland Street star Frankie Adams. Most viewers still watch such shows in traditional ways.

In a moving and illuminating video, Always questioned a group of adults on what it means to run, fight and throw "like a girl".

The EU has to rely on antitrust and privacy rules to curb Google's search-engine dominance and can't just break up the company, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said.

The social media phenomenon known as the Beached Az whale has been killed off by its creators to highlight the plight of marine life ahead of World Oceans Day.

A man has posted a video entitled 'Blatant Racism in Cheektowaga NY' on YouTube that appears to show a stranger making bilious racist comments and calling him a "nasty f***ing n****r".

Cyclists across social media have expressed their outrage after a motorcyclist uploaded a video that appears to show him running an unwitting bicycle user off the road.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott faced tough questioning from a group of smart high school students about the carbon tax, gay marriage, immigration policy and his women’s minister.

A racy video featuring Shia LaBeouf in Lars von Trier's new film Nymphomaniac has been removed from YouTube for its nudity.