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 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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- May 29: YouTube announced new features for podcast listeners using YouTube Premium. "On the go mode" gives podcast-app style controls for users who aren't watching the screen; "Auto speed" is an intelligent speed playback control; and within YouTube Music, "Ask Music", a personalised playlist generator, now can be used for podcast recommendations.
- May 28: Just a day after we carried an Ankler story with a senior Spotify executive saying they don't do exclusives any more, Spotify has signed an exclusive, alongside Netflix, for Jay Shetty's On Purpose. The deal is reportedly worth $100mn. We'd reported he was leaving iHeart back in March. The show will be no longer posted onto YouTube; but will be available as audio on all podcast platforms; Spotify will handle ad-sales.
- May 26: In January, Podnews covered an app that copied podcasts, stripped the ads from them, and sold them. How's that going? Developer Ben Bowler's blog page about PodcastAdBlock has been deleted; his YouTube video about it has been made private; the app itself has disappeared from the app store; and the website for the app is now an AI slopsite with information about podcasting.
- May 22: By the numbers - Inception Point AI is making 10,000 episodes a week, Wright said, and has well over a million listeners every month. The company has more than 400,000 subscribers across YouTube, Apple Podcasts and Spotify. As of Tuesday, there will be 12 "real life" people on her team, as well as eight "full-time agentic employees". One human creator can now produce "80-100 new shows a day".
- May 20: YouTube is winning podcast creator hearts, according to the results of the Podnews Report Card, which were revealed at the opening keynote for The Podcast Show in London, which kicks off today. The results show significantly better scores for YouTube in almost every category, and overall, YouTube rises to the #2 best-scoring platform, behind Apple. Apple, too, has increased its score after launching a slew of new features over the past year. We've the results in full.
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