YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google. Accessible worldwide, YouTube was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States, it is the second most visited website in the world, after Google Search. As of January 2024, YouTube has more than 2.7 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, and as of 2021, there were approximately 14 billion videos in total. Wikipedia
Website: www.youtube.com
Owned by: Google
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- Jul 25: Sports podcasting is booming in the UK, says PressGazette. The article quotes YouTube views, which are public.
- Jul 24: YouTube Music added the ability to mark a podcast as played earlier in the month. We also notice that in Australia, we now get a “podcasts” chip at the top of the screen; you can now auto-download shows; and there are ways of filtering episode lists to only show, for example, unplayed or downloaded episodes.
- Jul 18: Did Apple train its AI on your YouTube videos? That’s a suggestion made by Proof and WIRED today. Nvidia, Salesforce, Bloomberg, Anthropic and Databricks also helped themselves to the data, suggests the story.
- Jul 17: YouTube is looking for people to participate in a research study about podcasters who are “involved in creating the visuals of a podcast (i.e. waveforms, images, video shown in a video podcast).“
- Jul 15: Exclusive: Rhapsody Voices is to launch two new shows this week from established creators: one from Rabia Chaudry and another from YouTuber Geography by Geoff.
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