
We then spoke to dozens of people - employees, creators, external stakeholders. Hugh: We started by sketching out the general contours of the story and the questions we wanted answered. How did you two tackle reporting on this story together? How YouTube has avoided the scrutiny facing Facebook Download our app for news on the go - click here for iOS and here for Android.

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In their story this week, Hugh Langley and Rob Price talked to insiders about how YouTube really operates, how Wojcicki has been able to skirt scrutiny, and whether it can last. As a standalone company, it would be worth $1 trillion, according to one analyst.Īnd yet, while Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and the Alphabet boss Sundar Pichai have faced grillings on Capitol Hill, the YouTube chief Susan Wojcicki has kept herself and her media empire out of the spotlight.

In the first half of this year, it booked $13 billion in revenue. The video giant, part of the tech behemoth Alphabet, has a global audience that watches more than 1 billion hours' worth of videos every day. YouTube is a $1 trillion tech giant you likely rarely think about. Welcome back to Insider Weekly! I'm Matt Turner, co-editor-in-chief of business at Insider.
