Google Chrome is taking aim at those annoying autoplay videos spreading across the web.

Autoplay videos are popping up everywhere right now. Thankfully, there's an easy way to stop 'em before they start.

Autoplay videos can be one of the most frustrating parts of social media feeds. Facebook and Twitter turn this setting on by default to juice the view numbers for publishers and advertisers. But ...

Twitter autoplay video would build on the company’s Amplify ad program, in which the company works with sports and entertainment brands to sell sponsorships against live-streamed video.

If “autoplay” has become synonymous with “obnoxious,” it’s largely the fault of those primitive autoplay ads that blare sound at you from who knows what tab and who knows where on the page.

Numerous TV advertising executives have confirmed to Ad Age that the 1-billion member social network has plans to roll out autoplay video ads to its website and mobile apps by April.

Twitter has taken yet another page from Facebook's notebook. Starting today, the social media company will begin testing autoplay video ads, which sounds a lot like the feature Facebook introduced ...