YouTube 20 Years Later, feat. Jamie Gutfreund
This week, Lauren is joined by special cohost Jamie Gutfreund (Forbes; Creator Vision) to look back at 20 years of YouTube through the lens of their 2025 letter from CEO Neal Mohan. Then: Netflix pursues podcasters, Poppi tarte-d at the Super Bowl, and Buzzfeed invests in hopecore via a new social media platform.
Here's more detail on what we covered this week:
- Follow Jamie Gutfreund on LinkedIn!
- Jamie covers the creator economy on Forbes -- more here.
- More on Creator Vision here.
- From the YouTube CEO: Our big bets for 2025
- Neal Mohan says YouTube is the new TV--and creators are the new Hollywood - Tubefilter
- Despite YouTube's investment in Shorts, viewers are gravitating toward long-form video - Tubefilter
- February 14 marks the 20th anniversary of YouTube's founding - Tubefilter
- YouTube and Spotify want to be video podcast kings. But they might have a new challenger: Netflix. - Tubefilter
- Netflix is eyeing video podcasts and once courted 'Call Her Daddy' star Alex Cooper
- BuzzFeed to launch new social media platform called BF Island
- Duolingo Owl Dies—But ‘The Dead Internet Theory’ Lives On
- Poppi sent vending machines to influencers — and it majorly backfired
- Celebrities Protest Kanye West in Fake AI Video; Scarlett Johansson Makes Statement
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