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. 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
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- Nov 20:
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.com has launched free podcast hosting. Made for local & niche podcasters, the free plan offers unlimited episodes and unlimited audio, and analytics, including episode-by-episode analytics, for up to 90 days. Paid users get access to transcripts, programmatic ads, and YouTube posting. (Podnews’s Editor is an advisor). - Nov 18: Audio is still the #1 way to consume podcasts, despite the chatter about video. That’s one of the findings of the latest Cumulus Media and Signal Hill Insights Podcast Download Report, published yesterday. Over half of podcast consumers on YouTube also listen to the same podcasts on another platform. Only 8% just watch podcasts, a number that hasn’t changed since 2022. You can download the report in full, and watch the webinar this Thursday.
- Nov 14: Stephanie Arakelian has joined Mark Manson’s team at Solved as Podcast Growth Strategist, leading audience growth across both the podcast and YouTube platforms, as well as brand strategy.
- Nov 10: The City of Winnipeg is under fire for its podcast, Our City, Our Podcast. The Winnipeg Sun reports that it allegedly cost $35,000, a price that is mostly employee salaries. However, the piece judges the show on YouTube views, which were often under 100 per episode, and not on actual podcast download numbers, which aren’t public.
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