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, three 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 3: “If we don’t nail this, we’ll be essentially telling podcasters that their only real options for podcast video are YouTube and Spotify.” The Podcast Standards Project has published its thinking behind HLS delivery of video podcasting via open RSS. Benefits include one RSS feed that can contain both audio and video; and adaptive quality for all consumers, as well as potentially producing consumption analytics, and lowering bandwidth bills. HLS streams can still be downloadable if required.
- May 30: Headliner has added a “chapters” field for its app, so you can ensure that chapters appear in full-length YouTube videos. You can see it working in the Podnews Weekly Review this week, along with newly-added captions as well.
- May 28: The latest episode of People In Podcasting features our Editor, James Cridland. The show is also available on YouTube and Spotify in video.
- May 26: Nick Quah chats with YouTube’s Tim Katz (“a vice-president who oversees partnerships across different sectors — news, civics, health, education, kids’ content — including, now, podcasts.”). Katz describes a podcast on the platform as “listenable content — so, content that’s video optional,” and says that “if you look at the top podcasts in the US, almost all of them are on YouTube”, although Podtrac told us in February that only half were.
- May 21: Spotify’s share of downloads is down year-on-year in the UK, according to OP3 data. Our Editor, James Cridland, speaking this morning at The Podcast Show London, compared data from a typical week in April in 2024 and 2025. “It may be that this is the growth of Spotify video, which won’t be seen by third-party analytics services like this,” he said. Apple Podcasts increased its share by 4.3%. The data also doesn’t show YouTube, Global Player or BBC Sounds.
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