YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google and 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 itself and 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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Latest news
- Jan 23: Podspace has launched enterprise video distribution. The tool starts with a direct YouTube integration. It "enables enterprise networks to manage multi-format content with the same efficiency and platform neutrality they expect from their audio business."
- Jan 21: Podtrac launched a new, global, multi-channel podcast ranker that measures podcast consumption across media platforms and content types - including, for the first time, video clips in Instagram, TikTok and YouTube Shorts.
- Jan 20: An upcoming video platform, LRT Presents, promises to make video podcasts available globally across Roku, Amazon Fire, Play station and Xbox. "As any distribution avenue there is a fee," the company tells us (though podcasts don't pay any fee to be distributed on Spotify, YouTube or other platforms - and are paid by Netflix, among others).
- Jan 16: Podcast Movement Evolutions will be at SXSW this year; more details have been released about the event including a morning keynote from YouTube, a dedicated recording space for creators, and a roster of leading sponsors.
- Jan 14: YouTube is used by more people in the UK than BBC television, according to some new analysis. The data measured so-called "three-minute" monthly reach: people who have used each platform for at least three minutes a month. However, in a parallel with podcasting figures, people don't use YouTube for long - if you compare a "fifteen-minute" monthly reach, BBC tv still comfortably beats YouTube by 6 million users (and then there's the radio and podcasts to add in).
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