YouTube says viewers watch more than 2 billion hours of YouTube Shorts on TVs each month, even though the format is designed for smartphone portrait viewing. YouTube frames the living room as its fastest-growing screen and says TV search can pull viewers into checking Shorts they didn’t intend to watch. To fit the big-screen experience, YouTube is adding side-by-side comments. The shift is spilling into video podcasts, with living room podcast hours climbing sharply in 2025.
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