People frequently ask me why I record in stores with my phone oriented the "wrong" way. It's the right way to me, and I prefer it just the way it is. Doing it any other way would feel weird and incorrect. Hopefully, this video will help explain some of my reasons for feeling this way. Out of my 1,445 YouTube videos, only 158 of them (so far) were filmed "the wrong way." Maybe that's just okay.
To listen while using other apps, switch the player to Picture-in-Picture (PiP) during playback — it keeps playing in a small floating window (the screen stays on).
To listen with the screen fully off, in-browser playback stops by YouTube's design. Open the video in the YouTube app to keep listening where background playback is supported (e.g. with YouTube Premium).
Open in YouTube app