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Channel 10 have announced they will begin uploading entire episodes of The Project to YouTube in 2025.
Producers revealed the major change with a post on The Project's social media, including a link to the show's dedicated YouTube channel.
'New for 2025: You can watch The Project in full on You Tube,' the network announcement said.
Monday's episode featuring segments on the Golden Globes and comedian Akmal Saleh was seen in full on the platform.
The long-running current affairs program is known to cut a high profile on social media sharing excerpts and segments to platforms including X and Instagram.
'It seems 10 are now uploading episodes to You Tube…wonder how long it will last!,' said one viewer on industry blog Media Spy.
The Project has announced that it will begin sharing entire episodes of the troubled panel show online in 2025. Pictured: Sarah Harris
Producers revealed the major change with a post on The Project's social media, including a link to the show's dedicated You Tube channel. The unusual move to share an entire episode comes after The Project has faced criticism by being too 'woke' amidst falling ratings over the last few years Pictured: Former host of The Project Lisa Wilkinson, who left the show in 2022
Meanwhile, another armchair critic on the same thread questioned whether putting entire episodes online might create problems with a platform that has strict rules about copyright and sharing content.
'An interesting move to have it available in full on YouTube now, you’d think they’d often run into some challenge with footage used and music etc,' they wrote.
The unusual move to share an entire episode comes after The Project has faced criticism by being too 'woke' amidst falling ratings.
Last July, a spokesperson from Network 10 confirmed that the once top rating program was not going anywhere.
'The Project remains an integral part of our content line up and rest assured, it’s not going anywhere,' they told Daily Mail Australia.
The panel show has also undergone an audience decline ever since changing up its format.
The ratings woes coincide with growing criticism of The Project's left-wing bias and departures of several high-profile hosts, including Carrie Bickmore, Peter Helliar and Lisa Wilkinson.
The show relaunched in 2023 with a new panel comprising Sarah Harris, Sam Taunton, Michael Hing and long-serving anchor Waleed Aly.
Producers revealed the major change with a post on The Project's social media, including a link to the show's dedicated You Tube channel. (Pictured)
Monday's episode featuring segments on the Golden Globes and comedian Akmal Saleh (pictured) was seen in full on the platform
But recent reports suggest Harris is 'struggling' with the gruelling weekly commute from Sydney to Melbourne as the talk show's revamped line-up fails to fire up.
Insiders at Channel 10 told Daily Mail Australia the 'novelty' of travelling to Melbourne - where The Project is taped from Sunday to Thursday - is 'wearing off a bit' for Harris, a single mum with two young children.
The former Studio 10 host joined The Project after the shock departures of Bickmore, Helliar and Wilkinson at the end of 2022.
It comes after comedian Akmal Saleh shared an anecdote on a recent meeting with showbiz veteran Richard Wilkins during Monday night's episode of The Project.
The 60-year-old appeared on The Project on Monday when he explained how Wilkins mixed him up with Anh Do, who hosts ABC's Anh's Brush with Fame.
'Recently I was on one of those morning shows, the Today show maybe,' he began his story.
'I think it was the Today shown with one of the regular guests, it could have been Richard Wilkins, the entertainment reporter,' he added to laughter.
'He comes up to me, "Mate, I am a huge fan of yours. I love that show you do on TV." I said what show?
'Where you paint a celebrity,' added Saleh, before sharing his shock at being compared to the Vietnamese born comedian-turned-acclaimed artist.
'We're not the same race,' he said to uproarious laughter.
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