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Bhat: YouTube will natively integrate AI lip-synced audio dubbing
“It's going to get built in on YouTube, Nikhil. There's going to be a button where you can select a language and your mouth will move in that language. It's going to come into YouTube. It's going to take forever because YouTube is a slightly slower moving beast…”
Assertion Supported
Das: YouTube consumes one to two percent of all human waking hours
“And if you do the numbers, the final result I got was two percent of all human waking hours is on YouTube.”
Assertion Supported
15 percent of Indian YouTube watch time occurs outside of India
“Something like the, on the order of 15%, or
Like, ah, which translates to about forty-five billion hours of watch time of content created by Indian creators is actually consumed outside of India”
Assertion Supported
Indian creators earned $2.5 billion on YouTube over three years
“Indian creators generated 21,000 crores
two and a half billion dollars on YouTube in the last three years.”
Assertion Supported
Two billion people visit YouTube every single day
“I mean, two billion people come to the platform every single day.”
Assertion Supported
YouTube has 15,000 creators in India with over a million subscribers
“We have 15,000 creators in India, over a million subs. When I was here last, just a few months ago, ah, that number was, I think, 11,000. When I first started at YouTube, like, 10 years ago, that number was, like, four or five.”
Assertion Supported
Over 20 billion videos have been uploaded to YouTube
“There's twenty billion videos that have been uploaded to YouTube.”
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Over 90 percent of classroom teachers use YouTube
“I saw a stat, 90, 90% plus of classroom teachers use YouTube in the classroom in some particular way.”
Assertion Supported
Mohan: MrBeast's primary office focus pillar is 'YouTube first'
“Jimmy Donaldson, Mr. Beast, has these five pillars of focus in his studio, in his office. The very first one is YouTube first.”
Assertion Supported
Mohan: Fox reported record YouTube viewership recently
“Fox had one of its most successful quarters, months ever on YouTube. Just, I think just last month, they reported it themselves.”
Assertion Supported
Bhat: YouTube CPMs are sub-$2 in India vs. up to $20 in the US
“In India, the CPMs, yeah, in India, the CPMs are way lower... Like India is sub two dollars. But in America, and I think in the Scandinavian countries, it's like, 10, 12 in some cases, 20 dollars, depending on the niche you're in.”