YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and 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 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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- Jul 16: A new movie about podcasts, Age of Audio, was premiered recently at the Oak Cliff Film Festival. Initially announced in Dec 2019 and directed by Shaun Michael Colón, it follows Ronald Young Jr in his quest for a hit indie podcast; and interviews people like Adam Curry, Ira Glass, Kara Swisher and Marc Maron. You can watch the trailer here.
- Jul 15: Even radio now has visuals in new dashboards. Pierre Bouvard, writing in the Cumulus Media and Westwood One blog, highlights some of the benefits of using visuals in audio advertising, using a number of studies. (We can use visuals in many podcast apps for podcast chapters; and, of course, on our YouTube videos). Pierre also shares this fun fact from Nielsen: “Half the time, TV ads are heard, not seen.”
- Jul 14: Android Authority reviews YouTube Music as a podcast app.
- Jul 11: YouTube has announced it’s to demonetise “inauthentic” content, widely considered to be mass-produced AI-generated material.
- Jul 7: Transistor now shows creator recommendations, using the “podroll” tag, in its podcast websites. Here’s an example; and a video to explain more.
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