YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and 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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- Jan 5: How-To Geek publishes Why I stopped listening to podcasts on YouTube. "Instead of letting me passively listen to a conversation while I was driving or doing chores, I felt like I was totally stuck looking at the device." The author has moved to... Audible. Meanwhile, MakeUseOf discovers AntennaPod.
- Jan 1: In a paid article, Ashley Carman highlights this year's winners and losers in podcasting (and music). The winners? Podcast production companies, Netflix, YouTube. The losers? Podcast ad networks, Apple Podcasts and the "manosphere". You'll have to read it to find out why.
- Dec 30, 2025: John Wordock publishes "26 questions about podcasting in 2026". He'll be at Podfest talking about how to build a YouTube channel. (Psst: if you're a Podnews newsletter subscriber, get money off Podfest tickets)
- Dec 26, 2025: The show has previously been live on YouTube, where it gets around 100,000 views per episode - Podscribe suggests the audio podcast gets almost three times as many downloads. It won't be available on YouTube in full from next year; the Netflix deal is exclusive.
Data credits: Podnews newsletter, Wikipedia