The very first video 24-year-old Midwesterner Quinton Hoover uploaded to his YouTube channel in 2013 was one minute and 48 seconds long; his next offering lasted just nine seconds. Eight years later, ...

It’s pretty common to see long, elaborate videos show up in your YouTube recommendations — I’ve found myself watching multihour takedowns of obscure foreign series I’ve never watched before. One ...

The timesinks, they are a changin’. Above, a woman checks alarm clocks in a London clock factory in 1946. This week, as YouTuber Jenny Nicholson’s review/eulogy for the shuttered Disney Star Wars ...

There’s an art to making an ultra-long YouTube video. For one, you have to make sure it’s broken up into digestible, complete chunks so that people can take natural-feeling breaks. Second, you have to ...

This is FRESH AIR. One of the most talked-about documentaries of the summer isn't on Netflix, and it's not screening in theaters. It's a four-hour YouTube video that charts the rise and fall of a ...