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 at 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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- Jul 10: But - is the "issue" that Apple's version of the play count is not a very useful metric? For the Podnews Weekly Review, all our episodes seem to show numbers like this - one episode claiming it's had 60 listeners, but 367 plays. Spotify and YouTube both agree that a play is a minimum of 30 seconds, which is, um, 30 seconds longer than Apple's definition.
- Jul 9: YouTube is now the most popular service used for podcast consumption in the UK - two years after YouTube edged out Spotify in the US for the first time. Apple Podcasts is the fourth most popular in the country, after BBC Sounds, the corporation's proprietary app. The data is from Edison Research at SSRS, who present The UK Podcast Consumer 2026 in a free webinar on Jul 16.
- Jul 6: "If you're watching this because you want to make stuff - just go and make stuff. That's the only way to get better". Tom Scott, a well-known YouTuber and podcaster, gives some incredible advice in this YouTube video - and much of it works if you ignore "YouTube" and replace it with "Podcast".
- Jul 2: From Podcast Movement 2025, Rob Walch shares whether there are any silver bullets for marketing your podcast - and why you probably can't believe many of the download numbers you see. (Rob now works with DAX US and Captivate).
- Jul 1: Meanwhile, YouTuber Kitboga has discovered a way to identify and break AI scam callers. It's a fun video, highlighting that you really can't leave AI tools to publish without checking stuff first.
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