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 former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google. 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
- Oct 28: One of the US’s biggest podcasts and video creators, MrBallen has signed with SiriusXM for distribution and monetisation. The deal includes MrBallen’s YouTube channel.
- Oct 27: La Verdad Noticias carries some podcast consumption data from México - which says that 77.4mn people listen to music, podcasts or audiobooks on platforms like Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple or YouTube Music (which is 80% of all internet users). 14.3mn have paid subscriptions (two thirds of those with Spotify).
- Oct 24: How much do YouTubers make? Stephen Robles should know; and he’s written a piece on Riverside about it.
- Oct 22: Just in time for Christmas, Zoom (the audio equipment manufacturer) is to launch the Zoom PodTrak P4next, a portable XLR multitrack recorder with “AI noise reduction”, compression and tone shaping. Here’s a demo video. It’s marked as “coming soon” on B&H for $179.99. We’ve not had a press release for it, but it appears to have been announced yesterday.
- Oct 20: Everyone’s watching the “kids” on YouTube - but Flightpath’s Sean Howard highlights that many are business owners building empires; and suggests in an article for Podnews that Calling Creators “Kids” Is How Legacy Media Lost the Plot.
Data credits: Podnews newsletter, Wikipedia