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 former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google. 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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Latest news
- Oct 7: Podcast Strategy Weekly looks at a new feature in YouTube Studio - an A/B testing tool for your titles and thumbnails. (Theoretically, title testing in YouTube might also work for your RSS feed too?)
- Oct 6: Flightcast, a new, video-first podcast platform, has been launched by Steven Bartlett, the host of The Diary Of A CEO, and Roxcodes, the former engineer at MrBeast. The tool is an all-in-one platform for distributing, analyzing, and growing video podcasts across YouTube, Spotify, Apple, and more.
- Oct 2: Free training for podcast and audio professionals has been made available by Audiotrain from AudioUK in partnership with the BBC. The platform contains a wide range of on-demand courses, available for free to anyone in the world. Among the 19 courses currently available: “YouTube for Podcasts”, “Negotiating like a pro”, and “Social Media for podcasts”.
- Oct 1: In the UK, a new, female-founded video podcast network has been launched by former Google, YouTube, and BBC & Freemantle execs. HERA is founded by Rosie Allimonos, Nishma Patel Robb and Kirsty Hunter, and aims “to unlock the most underserved audience in media history: women”.
- Sep 30: YouTube has paid $24.5mn to settle a lawsuit from President Trump, over the suspension of his account after the Jan 6 2021 attack on the Capitol. Meta and X have also settled.
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