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YouTube Looks to Hire Its First Executive Focused on Podcasts
The video site is looking for someone to manage the growing number of podcasts uploaded every day
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YouTube is looking to hire an executive to oversee its podcasting business, a new position for the video giant and a sign that its parent, Alphabet Inc.’s Google, is starting to take the category seriously.
YouTube is already one of the top destinations for podcast listeners, with many producers creating videos while taping episodes and uploading them to the site. “The Joe Rogan Experience,” one of the biggest podcasts in the world, has more than 11 million subscribers on YouTube. And some popular YouTubers, like Logan Paul and h3h3, have branched out into podcasts.