YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three 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 2023, there were approximately 14 billion videos in total. Wikipedia
Website: www.youtube.com
Owned by: Google
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- Jan 14: Here’s a secret. YouTube Music plays podcasts. No, real podcasts, via open RSS and everything. And you can link your listeners directly to your show on YouTube Music without having to upload your show to YouTube itself. Best yet, it even counts for your download numbers. We’ve got all the details.
- Jan 13: Substack, which announced a partnership with Spotify in April last year, is now promoting its Spotify integration on the Substack dashboard. The service also has integrations with Apple, YouTube Music, “Youtube Podcasts”, Pocket Casts and Overcast; but this is the first time that our Podnews reader who spotted this has seen them actively promote it.
- Jan 10: Podpacer is a podcast planning tool to help you research and plan your next episode. Slobodan Manić, the founder, tells us that “Podpacer learns from your past episodes, plus any YouTube videos, documents, or web pages you provide and uses that knowledge to help you plan and prepare new episodes more efficiently.”
- Jan 6: “I spent a lot of time in 2024 talking to podcasters about video. Some are angry, some are excited, lots are perplexed.” All this week, Matt Deegan, a podcast and radio expert, is focusing on video podcasts in his Substack. In the first piece, published today, he discovers the first ever Joe Rogan Experience on YouTube.
- Jan 3: How does YouTube compare? YouTube pays out more - giving creators 55% of ad revenues (though overall revenues might be lower), and shares a portion of YouTube Premium revenue with creators, based on watch time. YouTube’s also significantly easier to become eligible, needing 4,000 streamed hours in the last year, and 1,000 subscribers).
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