YouTube has become a TV giant with a sprawling free video-streaming platform and a cable-like bundle of channels for a monthly fee. Now, it is breaking up the bundle. Google-owned YouTube TV is introducing a slate of genre-specific channel packages in early 2026,

The streaming giant’s major feature was disrupted for some customers as YouTube TV keeps rolling out improvements.

YouTube TV has announced a major upgrade coming next year that will give subscribers access to smaller genre-specific plans.

While the videos were popular for a time, the 2018 edition of YouTube Rewind became the most disliked video on the platform at the time after blowback from YouTube users. Many popular and somewhat controversial YouTube creators were not included in the recap, which included more mainstream YouTube stars.

For many decades, the television industry was dominated by a handful of companies and it seemed like that was never going to change. Over the last several years, however, the way that many people watch TV shows has changed dramatically,

YouTube’s chief executive spoke about the platform’s role in cultural and political discourse, its relationship to creators and kids, and what its future holds.