YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki shared some of the Google-owned video site’s 2018 milestones and her goals for 2019.
The number of channels with more than 1 million subscribers doubled in 2018, and the number of creators earnings at least five figures through the site rose by over 40 percent.
Ariana Grande’s video for Thank U, Next became the most successful YouTube Premiere video to date, reaching 829,000 unique viewers watching and interacting simultaneously at its peak.
Wojcicki also discussed one of YouTube’s biggest misses for 2018, writing, “One record we definitely didn’t set out to break was the most disliked video on the internet.
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