YouTube Brings Comments, Posts and Shorts Series to the TV

You can now comment on YouTube from your sofa.

That update for television viewers was among nearly three dozen new features for creators, viewers and brands unveiled at Made on YouTube in September 2026, as reported by Deadline. The annual showcase, organised by YouTube, focused heavily on the living room.

TV viewers can now post comments directly. They can also view Posts, still images and texts posted to channels by creators. And they can watch series on Shorts, YouTube's short-form videos.

YouTube chief executive Neal Mohan told the event that the company had shipped 3,000 product updates in 2026 to date. The figure covers work across creators, viewers and brands.

The push follows strong viewing on television sets. YouTube executives said the platform had topped the Nielsen charts, the US system that measures what people watch on TV, for three years straight. Its share was 14.2% of all TV viewing in the US as of July 2026.

Short viewing on big screens is large. YouTube viewers watch more than 2 billion hours of Shorts programming on TVs each month, according to the company.

YouTube detailed the living-room changes in an official post titled 'YouTube on TV 2026: Shorts Series & Living Room Features', published on its YouTube blog. The post frames the TV set as a place for viewers to connect with creators, not only to watch.

For viewers at home, this means less reaching for a second screen. Comments, channel updates and short episodes sit in the same place as long-form video.

The TV focus builds on a plan set out earlier in the year. In an outlook titled 'From the CEO: What's coming to YouTube in 2026', published on 21 January 2026, YouTube listed reinventing entertainment with creators as the new stars and studios as a priority, as described on its YouTube blog. Bloomberg has reported on creators turning online audiences into big-screen opportunities, including filmmaker Alex Kister moving from DIY horror videos.