YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing and social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States. Accessible worldwide, it was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google and is the second most visited website in the world, after Google Search. YouTube has more than 2.5 billion monthly users, who collectively watch 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. Wikipedia
Website: www.youtube.com
Owned by: Google
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Latest news
- Sep 27: Google Podcasts is to close, the company has announced. The news confirms Podnews's coverage in August that YouTube Music will allow you to add any RSS feed to the app, so you can continue to listen to your favourite shows in YouTube Music as a replacement. The company is working on a migration tool. They've also communicated the upcoming closure to listeners.
- Sep 26: Listenbox says it offers a way to subscribe to your favourite YouTube podcast in any podcast player.
- Sep 20: Podcasts are now available via search in the YouTube Music app in many more countries. A search for Podnews Daily now finds our podcast in - according to our searches - Australia, New Zealand, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, South Korea, Singapore and Thailand (and, perhaps, other countries too) - along with the US, Canada and Latin America, who've had it for a while. It looks like this. We're not yet seeing podcasts appear in search results in Europe or the Middle East; though the search box correctly auto-completes "Podnews Daily".
- Sep 15: On YouTube, a twenty-minute documentary on Kast Media has been published by "Coffeezilla", the investigative journalist Stephen Findeisen - featuring Theo Von, Brendan Schaub, Whitney Cummings, Brian Last and Jim Cornette who all allege that they weren't paid by the company. The journalist talks to Kast Media's Colin Thomson and his former partner Dustin Knouse, and to creators on the network. Findeisen makes a number of allegations against Thomson personally, as well as the company. At press time, the video had over 1.5mn views.
- Sep 5: You can now leave comments on podcasts within the YouTube Music app.
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