YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three 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
- Feb 20: Canada’s CTV News calls it “a web series”, since it’s also a video podcast on YouTube.
- Feb 19: First look: SiriusXM has just announced that it is to expand its SiriusXM Podcasts+ premium subscription to Spotify, YouTube Music, and other podcast apps via SupportingCast. “This expansion brings SiriusXM Podcasts+ benefits – including ad-free listening to new episodes, exclusive bonus content, and early access to new episodes of popular shows – to all major podcast platforms.” (You can also subscribe directly with Apple Podcasts).
- Feb 18: If you’re just putting your podcast onto YouTube as an ‘audiogram-style’ show without video, you’re wasting your time, says Chris Stone in the Podcast Strategy newsletter. (As a contrary view: they don’t perform as well as full video - but they still do get listened-to, and since you can do it automatically, there’s no time being wasted anyway).
- Feb 14: This Valentine’s Day, Headliner would like you to show your podcast some love. The company has posted ten tips for good “pod-care”, including creating podcast clips, optimising podcast SEO, and not forgetting about YouTube.
- Feb 13: Exclusive: Amazon’s Wondery has closed its operations in Mexico and in Brazil. Podnews understands that the closure was announced in a short staff meeting earlier this week. Those impacted include Sarah Barrett, the company’s Head of Mexico Podcast Content. It comes the same week as some of Wondery Mexico’s shows were nominated for the Ondas Globales awards; and the LATAM units own a successful YouTube page with more than 500,000 subscribers.
Data credits: Podnews newsletter, Wikipedia