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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Latest news
- Jun 26: YouTube has 13.4% of all TV watching in the US, says Nielsen's latest Gauge reports. Netflix is at 7.8%; Tubi is up to 2.3%.
- Jun 25: Growth-oriented podcast host Captivate has turned on Captivate Monetization, a full suite of tools to help its podcasters earn revenue from advertising. It comprises Captivate Marketplace, for direct sales between your podcast and advertisers (here is more info for advertisers); Programmatic Advertising, an existing Memberships and tips tool, and a new Campaign Management feature for AMIE, which is the company's dynamic content insertion engine. There will be a free webinar on Monday to learn more.
- Jun 24: One of the organisers, Dino Sophos of Persephonica, spoke to UK MPs on the Culture, Media and Sports Committee about why some of the BBC's podcasts are now available on YouTube. ("Probably a little bit late", he says).
- Jun 23: Android Police reckons that YouTube Music is a great podcast player ... A new podcast app Brink is reviewed by 9to5Mac
- Jun 22: Drop Media publishes Why podcasting could be TV production’s most overlooked opportunity ... meanwhile, Jay Leno reckons that late-night has "too many commercials", and why would you watch that if you can just consume a full hour uninterrupted online?
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