In this final chapter of How YouTube Ate TV, Fast Company’s oral history of YouTube, the platform migrates from computers and phones to the biggest screen in the house: the living-room TV. It also takes on TikTok with brief videos called Shorts and becomes a major destination for podcasts. And it begins to tackle one of its greatest opportunities—albeit a fraught one—by incorporating AI into the creation process. To succeed, it will have to do this without losing the human element that made YouTube a phenomenon in the first place.

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Part one: YouTube failed as a dating site. This one change altered its fortunes forever

Part two: Pit bulls, rats, and 2 circling sharks: The inside story of Google buying YouTube

Part three: How YouTube went

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