YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google. Accessible worldwide, it 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. YouTube has more than 2.5 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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- Apr 25: What is the future of podcasting on YouTube? Johanna Voolich, Chief Product Officer of YouTube, is interviewed by Rene Ritchie (and her conversation is written up in the company’s blog.) She describes the company’s vision of podcasting on the platform being an “eyes optional” experience; and confirms that YouTube does not plan to publish RSS feeds. She does, though, look suspiciously as if she knows a little more than she can say, when talking about whether YouTube might augment audio-only podcasts with AI visuals of its own.
- Apr 24: How do YouTube stats work for podcasters? They’re not in your podcast host’s dashboard (probably); we explain why.
- Apr 23: Google appears to have set a date for Google Podcasts to be switched off in countries outside the US. A support document has been updated to say “Users outside of the United States will be able to use Google Podcasts until mid-to-late June 2024”, 9to5Google has spotted.
- Apr 17: UK media regulator Ofcom has released data on audio listening in the UK. The raw data is also available in full, and Adam Bowie has looked more closely into the data. He discovers that podcast listening is not growing overall in the country; but there has been a marked growth in younger listeners. Spotify, BBC Sounds and YouTube appear high in the list for podcast apps.
- Apr 12: Want to help your listeners listen to your podcast on the YouTube Music app, but would prefer they listen to your proper RSS feed, rather than whatever YouTube wants to do with it? RSS2YTM gives your listeners instructions on how to get your RSS feed in the app. (You can share the link, too).
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