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 former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7 billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day. As of May 2019, videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content 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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Latest news
- Oct 31: YouTube is getting a reorg. No layoffs are part of the plans for now, though they are looking for voluntary buyouts.
- Oct 30: Podcasting has a “shocking $1bn growth problem”, according to podcast ad agency Oxford Road in a new report. It’s, again, a concern about measurement - 50% of ad buyers citing limitations in performance data as the main constraint on spend. However, reaching consensus on the definition of a "podcast” is also crucial, the report argues - it’ll help solve budget, management and attribution confusion across audio, video, influencer, and YouTube teams.
- Oct 28: One of the US’s biggest podcasts and video creators, MrBallen has signed with SiriusXM for distribution and monetisation. The deal includes MrBallen’s YouTube channel.
- Oct 27: La Verdad Noticias carries some podcast consumption data from México - which says that 77.4mn people listen to music, podcasts or audiobooks on platforms like Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple or YouTube Music (which is 80% of all internet users). 14.3mn have paid subscriptions (two thirds of those with Spotify).
- Oct 24: How much do YouTubers make? Stephen Robles should know; and he’s written a piece on Riverside about it.
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