YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, who were former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. 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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- Jun 23: Spotify’s video podcast program isn’t a big hit with podcast networks, says Digiday, saying larger networks are “wary”. However, creators seem keener, with YMH Studios suggesting they’re earning 5x the revenue from Spotify than YouTube, and Ryth earning more than double.
- Jun 20: The study notes that adding video to an audio-only platform means over 50x more carbon emissions every hour. The study only measures Spotify’s music platform, and not podcasting: but video podcasting on Spotify, and on YouTube, will mean additional energy use.
- Jun 19: Yesterday, Podnews covered Neal Mohan, the CEO of YouTube, talking with The Ankler CEO and Editor in Chief Janice Min. Today, that conversation is available, in full, in The Ankler Podcast - where he talks about a lot more than just podcasting.
- Jun 18: “Having podcasts hosted on YouTube and having the algorithm find new audiences for you every single day turns out to be really, really powerful, no matter how big of a podcaster you are.” YouTube CEO Neal Mohan spoke with The Ankler CEO and Editor in Chief Janice Min to an invitation-only crowd at Cannes Lions yesterday - where he suggested that video is central to podcasting’s growth. “People actually don’t want to just listen to podcasts, they want to watch podcasts, they want to watch this conversation happening... Video was a really big bet, that turned out to be true.” The full interview will be carried in The Ankler today; Mohan is keynote speaker today on the festival’s main stage.
- Jun 17: The data suggests that YouTube is the main access point for news podcasts in the US - in the country, 15% access a news podcast weekly. One fifth (22%) of their US sample say they saw news or commentary from Joe Rogan in the week after the inauguration (and 14% from Tucker Carlson).
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