YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google. Accessible worldwide, YouTube was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States, 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 2021, there were approximately 14 billion videos in total. Wikipedia
Website: www.youtube.com
Owned by: Google
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Latest news
- Oct 9: YouTube UK head of podcasts, Sandy Wilheim, has spoken to Broadcast Sport about best practice on the platform. She will be on the Podnews Weekly Review this Friday.
- Oct 8: Headliner has added video support for podcasters. Creators can now quickly repurpose video episodes to maximise reach and engagement across social media and YouTube.
- Oct 7: Below - but we don’t want you to miss it - YouTube Music plays podcasts via RSS. Here’s how
- Oct 4: Axios has noticed the podcast capability in Google’s NotebookLM. It ends: “Anthropomorphic tech will always wow us — for a time, at least. But these tricks quickly become first mundane and eventually dull and passé.” The tool now works with YouTube videos.
- Oct 1: Designated with Yaya Jata Fanusie is new today from Illicit Edge, "the world’s foremost source of financial crime news". The show features financial crime investigations, sanctions enforcement, and the key illicit finance challenges facing the world. The show is also available on YouTube.
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