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 itself. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7 billion monthly active users, who collectively consumed more than one billion hours of video content 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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- Feb 5: Hulu is the latest streaming platform to add podcasts to its service, after signing Headgum show We're Here To Help. Unlike Netflix, which has demanded exclusivity, Hulu will get the show "a day before they are available on the podcast’s soon-to-be relaunched YouTube channel".
- Feb 4: YouTube has removed a number of "AI slop" channels from its platform. It's removed sixteen channels, which had a total of 4.7 billion views.
- Feb 3: In the UK, YouTube has sent a legal letter to BARB, the UK television measurement service, requiring it to stop measurement of YouTube channels on smart TVs. That allowed BARB (which is roughly the equivalent to the US's Nielsen) to report on sizes of individual channels, something that YouTube suggests breached its terms of service. (MrBeast, BARB reported, achieved 319,000 viewers in a week, details we're apparently not allowed to know). The data was collected for BARB by Kantar Media, using audio matching recognition for 200 channels. None of YouTube's data is compliant with IAB Podcast Measurement Guidelines; and the company has never published what constitutes a "play" on the system.
- Jan 29: First look: Podcast Movement Evolutions at SXSW has unveiled the first wave of speakers, including the acclaimed storyteller MrBallen. There will be live programming through the weekend, as well as a morning keynote from YouTube.
- 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."
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