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.
Google TV has rolled out additional Gemini features, bringing AI-powered creativity to the living room. The update includes the ability to transform photos and videos using tools called Nano Banana and Veo, aiming to make content editing and generation feel more immediate on the TV interface.
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