YouTube on Tuesday released its trending lists for 2025, which highlight the topics, creators and podcasts that people were watching on the video platform this year. The lists matter because they give a sense of the cultural moment, and the creators leading it.

Ohio might be the most searched state on Google this year, but it's likely not for the reasons you're thinking.

Google has released its list of trending 2025 topics — including its roundup of musicians. At the front of the list was D4vd, the singer at the center of controversy after the body of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez was discovered inside his Tesla over the summer.

YouTube released its annual end-of-the-year trending lists for 2025 and launched the first YouTube Recap, a personalized, shareable highlight sizzle reel of users' watch history for the year.

MrBeast, KPop Demon Hunters, Joe Rogan, Roblox and Charlie Kirk all rank among the top YouTube trends of 2025.

An upstate New York jury has convicted a man who wore a clown mask and brandished a chain saw during a menacing daytime walk through a neighborhood. An Albany County

Jimmy Kimmel thanked President Donald Trump's frequent criticism for boosting his visibility and making him Google's third most searched person globally in 2025.

YouTube has published its list of the top trending topics of 2025, and once again, gaming and pop culture were popular choices for what people watched on the video-streaming website. Out of the trending topics--which aren't ranked in any particular order--US YouTube viewers devoured any content related to the Switch 2 console,