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, 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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- Jul 2: The Athletic has just launched No Free Lunch, “how the most successful people in sports manage their money and grow their wealth.” Of note - the show (on podcast apps and on YouTube) is described as a “digital series”, rather than a podcast.
- Jun 26: Today, June 26, marks the thirteenth anniversary of the launch of the Apple Podcasts iOS app in 2012. The app featured a faux reel-to-reel tape deck, apparently a nod to the Braun TG 60 tape recorder by Dieter Rams. In the Apple Podcasts app, speed controls were marked with a tortoise and a hare; and promotion for This American Life on the editorially-curated “featured” section. The app also featured a “Top Stations” discovery feature. Here’s a video from CTTechJunkie showing how the app worked; a positive review from Revision3; and this demo from GetConnected Media which shows how the “Top Stations” feature worked: with an audio/video switch right at the top. Hey, there’s an idea...
- Jun 25: In the world of TV, Nielsen says that streaming is now bigger in the US than both broadcast TV and cable TV. YouTube accounts for 12.5% of all streaming (which, for us in podcasting, is the only platform that contains podcasts alongside other programming).
- Jun 24: Want to make video podcasts for YouTube but don’t want to get in front of the camera yourself? A tool called Jogg will turn audio into “avatar” podcasts. It’s demonstrated here by YouTuber Jonathan’s Jam. Podnews reader (and supporter) Samuel Phelps asks us: “Is this literally better than static nothing or bouncing waves? Or is uncanny valley too strong?”
- Jun 23: Spotify’s video podcast program isn’t a big hit with podcast networks, says Digiday, saying larger networks are “wary”. However, creators seem keener, with YMH Studios suggesting they’re earning 5x the revenue from Spotify than YouTube, and Ryth earning more than double.
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