YouTube
YouTube is an American 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, United States, 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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- Nov 14: Eligibility for the Spotify Partner Program requires you to use Spotify for Creators to host your podcast (or Megaphone in some cases); and you need at least twelve episodes, 2,000 unique Spotify users in the last month, and 10,000 streamed hours in the last month. (YouTube, by comparison, needs 1,000 all-time subscribers, but 4,000 streamed hours in the last year.)
- Nov 12: The Podcast Haven has added a podcast search to help you check if anyone else has the same podcast name. “It’s a pain to check across platforms like Apple, Spotify and YouTube separately, so I created a one-stop search tool to handle it all,“ said its founder, Eric Montgomery.
- Nov 8: Podtrac released its new US rankers for October. Most participating publishers saw increases in the month. As a reminder, the “top publishers” ranker also includes YouTube podcast consumption; 43% of downloads/views for Libsyn Ads shows are consumed on YouTube; 56% of Paramount’s are, too.
- Nov 5: Riverside now lets you add background music, and intro/outro music, to your recordings.
- Nov 1: Max Cutler from PAVE Studios writes that creators are the new Hollywood; with podcasts “officially going mainstream”, YouTube dominating streaming, and engaged communities now directly connected to creators.
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