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 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 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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- Apr 21: In Australia, podcasting business SHOUT Collective has been acquired by Rifle Agency, in a move to enhance Rifle's capability to market across YouTube, audio and social.
- Apr 20: Edison Research at SSRS published the top 50 podcasts in the US for Q1/26. What effect has Netflix had on this chart? The Breakfast Club rose from 15 to 11; it's the clear leader on Netflix. The Bill Simmons podcast - removed in full from YouTube in favour of Netflix - has also risen from 49 to 42. The highest new entry is The Ramsey Show. Edison Podcast Metrics asks about podcasts, not about platforms - so will include shows wherever people consume them.
- Apr 17: Ari Shapiro has joined CNN as a contributor, and will co-present what the network calls a "video podcast" alongside Audie Cornish. The video podcast will, in fact, be audio-only on Apple Podcasts - available on video on YouTube, Spotify and CNN's streaming service.
- Apr 15: We Need To Talk with Paul C. Brunson has hit 500,000 YouTube subscribers, after just 603 days. The show claims to have followed "the FlightStory blueprint", using learnings from Diary of a CEO.
- Apr 10: For podcasts, YouTube has pulled far ahead of Spotify, with Apple Podcasts in fourth place behind Amazon Music, according to new global data from MIDiA. 62% of monthly active podcast users are using YouTube, compared to 47% for Spotify and around 25% for Apple Podcasts. The only surveyed countries that Spotify appears to lead in are Australia (but only very slightly), and in Spotify’s home country of Sweden, where it has a significant lead. The data also suggests that 36% of global consumers have no interest in podcasts at all.
Data credits: Podnews newsletter, Wikipedia