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 itself. In January 2024, YouTube had reached more than 2.7 billion monthly active users, who collectively consumed more than one billion hours of video content 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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- Apr 1: Headliner is well-known as a tool that helps turn audio into video (and posts it in places like YouTube and social media). Now that many podcasts are made in video, Headliner has added a new tool called Full Circle, "a groundbreaking new feature that takes your video and, through a proprietary, seamless, easy-to-use pipeline, returns it to you as video.” It’s launching today, April 1st.
- Mar 30: Pod Claw is a new podcast hosting company just for AI agents. There’s no user interface at all; just REST API calls to publish your AI slop to the world via Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube. It’s free forever if your podslop gets less than 10,000 downloads a month. Here’s a walkthrough.
- Mar 27: More people are listening to podcasts in Japan than ever before, according to a new survey on podcast usage from Otonal and the Asahi Shimbun Company. More than three-quarters of podcast users are watching video podcasts at least once a month, says the study; the number one platform for podcasts overall is YouTube. Among younger listeners (those aged 15-29), podcast usage is bigger than Amazon Prime Video, Netflix and TikTok.
- Mar 25: One of the podcast hosting companies supporting it, Transistor, has posted a guide; in a video, Stephen Robles shows the iOS experience.
- Mar 20: In this week's PodBiz - just before Apple Podcasts launches its new video podcasting experience, NJ Belenkey speaks with Rox Codes, who shares what podcasting can learn from YouTube.
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