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
- Apr 24: YouTube is twenty years old this week (YouTube Music is ten years old this year, too). The company has posted plenty of new stats on its blog.
- Apr 23: Before TikTok and YouTube Shorts there was Vine. Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World is new today from Global - the story of the social media app that changed the face of the internet before it crashed and burned in just three short years. Benedict Townsend looks at the layers of genius, chaos and betrayal that drove Vine’s spectacular rise… and it’s even more sudden collapse.
- Apr 22: The Podglomerate covers “how to start a YouTube channel for your podcast”. Even if you’re just in audio.
- Apr 18: The Cut covers podcasts being made by tweens. Most shows mentioned in the piece are video only - on Cameo, Instagram, Tikok and YouTube.
- Apr 17: The Podcast Show London has confirmed new partners and speakers, including Gary Lineker and Jack Davenport from Goalhanger, and Alison Lomax from YouTube UK & Ireland. Also announced as speakers are the team from FlightStory Studio: the team behind Diary of a CEO, Begin Again, and We Need to Talk - who’ll take to the stage with a session called “The Creator Economy is Dead. Welcome to the Era of Creator Entrepreneurs”. Our Editor is also speaking, and you’ll be able to watch the Podnews Weekly Review record live on-stage at the end of the event.
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