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 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 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
- Sep 17: YouTube announced a number of new services, including ways to grab the best bits from long-form podcasts to automatically make shorts; enhance live streams; add AI editing; and enable dynamically-inserted sponsorship messages (so you can “remove the sponsorship when the deal is complete, resell the slot to another brand or eventually sell the same slot to multiple brands in different markets”).
- Sep 15: A significant competitor to YouTube, video sharing website Vimeo has been acquired by Bending Spoons for $1.38bn. Bending Spoons acquired Streamyard last year, and almost doubled its monthly pricing. It’s also doubled the pricing for Evernote, and tripled the price for Meetup. The company also owns WeTransfer and video hosting and streaming platform Brightcove.
- Sep 8: Is YouTube doing odd things? Linus Media Group suggests 25% of their views have disappeared. Second Wind suggests something is going wrong; RedLetterMedia suggests it’s something to do with swearing; Moon Channel wonders if it’s something they said; and Clint’s Reptiles are confused as to why their numbers are low. Whatever’s going on, there seems to be a lot of reports of lower traffic.
- Sep 5: In the UK, the return of the Political Podcast Awards has been announced, sponsored by YouTube. You can enter now; there’s a new category for Student Podcast of the year. Anthony Scaramucci is confirmed as a speaker.
- Sep 4: YouTube appears to be having trouble importing RSS feeds once more, and the service is sending emails to many podcasters claiming it has failed to retrieve their latest episodes. A number of podcast hosts have had similar reports: it’s up to YouTube to fix.
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