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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- Aug 13: Another set of podcasts have signed with Disney+ - this time, it's from the UK, as The Overlap signed a landmark sponsorship and distribution deal with Disney+ for its Stick to Football show, and a new show focusing on Manchester United. The shows will remain available on YouTube, though Disney+ will also get access to additional special episodes of Stick to Football.
- Aug 12: The Ringer's gambling and sports podcast Wise Guys is to stream on Twitch, says the Like & Subscribe newsletter.
- Aug 11: It's going to be much harder to get money from YouTube. In "the first significant change since 2018", YouTube has made it twice as hard to get into the YouTube Partner Program, which pays creators based on consumption on the platform. New creators applying for the program will need 8,000 qualified watch hours (in the last year), or 20 million qualified Shorts views (in the last 90 days) - both double the amount that was required previously.
- Aug 10: What goes around, comes around - TubeStream "turns any YouTube channel into a podcast".
- Aug 7: The podcast world is growing up, suggested Traci de Forge and Jenn Trepeck from the Podcast Professionals Association at Podcast Movement last year. The new standards emerging around monetization, audience trust, creator ethics, and brand partnerships — and what independent podcasters, agencies, and networks need to do to stay competitive and credible in a maturing ecosystem.
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