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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- Jul 20: Podcast law is complicated. Last year at Podcast Movement, two lawyers - Gordon Firemark and Lindsay Bowen - goes through common (and not-so-common) beliefs about podcasting in a fast-paced game show format. (Our Editor was in the audience and thankfully got most of the questions right.)
- Jul 17: One set of people who have helped Netflix grow: YouTubers. Deadline reports that many are still uploading content to YouTube. Podcasters have accepted an apparent requirement for video exclusivity by Netflix, however.
- Jul 16: WARC Media released a report on YouTube - which, it says, is worth $40bn to advertisers, but revenue growth is slowing down. TikTok is set to grow bigger than YouTube by the end of the decade; but Netflix is expected to pull ahead in the next eighteen months. Users spend 58 minutes a day on the platform.
- Jul 15: What are the Secrets to YouTube Success? Speaking at Podcast Movement 2025 in Dallas, a panel of people who would probably know - Chris Colbert, CEO/Founder of DCP / Black Podcast Coalition / Podstream Studios Jay Nachlis, Vice President/Consultant of Coleman Insights Neha Taleja, Product Lead, YouTube Podcasts of Google Stephen Robles, Video and Podcast Creator of Riverside.fm John Wordock, Founder of John Wordock Media.
- Jul 10: But - is the "issue" that Apple's version of the play count is not a very useful metric? For the Podnews Weekly Review, all our episodes seem to show numbers like this - one episode claiming it's had 60 listeners, but 367 plays. Spotify and YouTube both agree that a play is a minimum of 30 seconds, which is, um, 30 seconds longer than Apple's definition.
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