From Vice to Vox: YouTube News Channels See Surge in Growth, Views, and Global Influence

It's called 'Me at the Zoo', it lasts 19 seconds and was shot at the Zoo in San Diego, California, by Jawed Karim. This is how, twenty years ago, on April 23, 2005, the YouTube adventure began. The popular video platform was founded a few months earlier, on February 14, 2005, by three former PayPal employees, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and precisely Jawed Karim. Within a month, the site registered 30 thousand users a day, six months later two milli…

From Vice to Vox: YouTube News Channels See Surge in Growth, Views, and Global Influence

According to an analysis by Press Gazette, there are 115 English-language publisher accounts on YouTube with at least a million followers. The most popular UK newspaper on YouTube is The Sun with six million subscribers. Press Gazette found that there was a 20% increase in subscribers of news publishers on YouTube in the past 15 years, while the video views have risen 25%. Many news publishers are focusing on YouTube because it makes about 10% o…