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Omdia: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok now capture over 90% of social media ad revenue, with Meta accounting for 70% of the total

Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok “capture over 90 percent of social media advertising revenues,” an Omdia analyst tells the StreamTV Europe gathering in Lisbon.

How the music industry is divided over AI; some labels signed licensing deals for AI that mirror revenue splits they use with YouTube for user-generated content

YouTube dominates daytime TV streaming, with 6.3M viewers at 11am in October on average, above Netflix's 2.8M, per Nielsen; prime-time viewership is more even

John Koblin / New York Times :

YouTube's head of products for podcasts Steve McLendon says viewers streamed 700M+ hours of podcasts on TV in October, up from 400M hours in October 2024

YouTube's head of products for podcasts Steve McLendon says viewers streamed 700M+ hours of podcasts on TV in October, up from 400M hours in October 2024

That's up from 400 million hours a year ago as podcasts become the new late-night TV.  —  People are spending more time tuning …

A survey of 1,458 US teens: 64% use AI chatbots, and 28% use them daily; 59% say they use ChatGPT, 23% use Gemini, 20% Meta AI, 14% Copilot, and 9% Character.ai

Roughly 1 in 5 U.S. teens say they are on TikTok and YouTube almost constantly.  At the same time, 64% of teens say they use chatbots …

Emergent, which lets non-technical users build apps via AI agents that handle coding errors and more, raised a $23M Series A, bringing its total funding to $30M

In the last decade, as the camera quality of smartphones improved, platforms like Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok rose in popularity for photo and video sharing.

Shareholder letter: Reddit cites Profound's analysis showing it is the most cited domain across AI models, as often as Wikipedia and ahead of YouTube and others

Alice Brooker / Press Gazette :

Cannes Lions: YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says YouTube Shorts now averages 200B daily views, up 186% from the 70B average daily views YouTube reported in March 2024

Kayla Cobb / The Wrap :

WPP Media expects ad revenue from user-generated content and platforms like YouTube and TikTok to surpass that from traditional media for the first time in 2025

Michael Savage / The Guardian :