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 all 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 reached more than 2.7 billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of video every day. As of May 2019, videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of video 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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- Apr 15: We Need To Talk with Paul C. Brunson has hit 500,000 YouTube subscribers, after just 603 days. The show claims to have followed "the FlightStory blueprint", using learnings from Diary of a CEO.
- Apr 10: For podcasts, YouTube has pulled far ahead of Spotify, with Apple Podcasts in fourth place behind Amazon Music, according to new global data from MIDiA. 62% of monthly active podcast users are using YouTube, compared to 47% for Spotify and around 25% for Apple Podcasts. The only surveyed countries that Spotify appears to lead in are Australia (but only very slightly), and in Spotify’s home country of Sweden, where it has a significant lead. The data also suggests that 36% of global consumers have no interest in podcasts at all.
- Apr 9: Lower Street has published a 22-page document on how to read your YouTube Data. It’s a useful and detailed guide, and as a bonus, only contains one picture of a cow.
- Apr 8: Ausha has expanded its growth suite with Ausha Visibility Ads, adding the ability to buy ads on Spotify and YouTube for your podcast. Specifically adapted for podcast growth, the tool is available today in beta.
- Apr 7: Vox Media has announced the launch of a “video-first podcast”. Called America, Actually, with Astead Herndon, this “video-first” podcast is in audio-only on Spotify, and audio-only on Apple Podcasts, although it will be in video on YouTube.
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