YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, and Steve Chen who were all former employees at PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google itself. In January 2024, YouTube had reached more than 2.7 billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of video every day. As of May 2019, videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of video per minute, and as of mid-2024, there were approximately 14.8 billion videos in total. Wikipedia
Website: www.youtube.com
Owned by: Google
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- May 8: The Podcast Show in London has published a number of new speakers for its event. Our Editor, James Cridland, will start day 1 with a reveal of the new Podnews Report Card results. From Apple Podcasts, Susie Warhurst - Head of International Podcasts - will be speaking about video, joined by Acast's Laura Hagen, and Aussie podcasters Toni and Ryan. Day two includes YouTube's Steve McLendon and Stella Binns for "a deep dive into the platform’s global podcasting strategy and the evolving creator landscape".
- May 6: It's emerged that all podcasters wanting to submit video to Apple Podcasts will need to manually get an API key from Apple (docs from Captivate, Podigee or Buzzsprout) and then submit an approval request to Apple Podcasts to enable their podcast in video - and it can take up to two weeks for Apple Podcasts to approve this request. We don't know of any publishers or shows that have been disallowed, however, and there is a suggestion that this is a technical quality check to help the platform with scaling growth. However, neither Spotify nor YouTube charges for bandwidth, and both those companies don't have a pre-publishing approval process.
- May 5: Podcast hosting company Podigee has launched video podcast support - for YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Video is available today across every podcast plan; the company says it makes them the first to support video podcast distribution to all three major platforms, across every pricing tier. Pricing starts at €19/month (US $22), for unlimited audio and four video episodes (of up to 30 minutes) per month. The company is based in Berlin, Germany.
- Apr 30: The Video Podcast Show is a new advice podcast from Justin Jackson, with tips and tricks on making a video podcast. As you might expect, it's in video on Spotify, YouTube and Apple Podcasts; and aims to help demystify the complication of adding video to your show.
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