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, all of whom were former employees at 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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- Nov 6: YouTube announced new tools for branded content on the platform - probably important for those of us with sponsors. The company will also spot branded content automatically and add a disclosure if it thinks you're promoting other companies.
- Nov 5: Breaking Points, a "a fearless anti-establishment multi-week Youtube and Podcast", hit two million views on their YouTube election night stream, according to Supercast CEO Jason Sew Hoy, who highlights how the podcast made the most of their new viewers.
- Nov 3: A new study into audio consumption in France, by Audion and YouGov, has highlighted that digital audio is now a mass-market medium - and suggests that the concept of "liquid content" is part of the country's consumption patterns. 58% of people in the country say that they've started content on one platform and finished it on another. The data also shows that YouTube dominates digital audio in the country; and that the morning commute is the peak consumption time.
- Nov 2: The Diary of a CEO has become the most-subscribed podcast on YouTube, overtaking Joe Rogan.
- Oct 28: Do you know how to get your YouTube podcast seen by more people? Mark your podcast as a podcast. No, really: if you don't mark it as a podcast, you don't get into YouTube Music, or the main Podcast homepage on YouTube. It'll take you two minutes: we've written a guide as to how.
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