The definitive, deeply reported account of YouTube, the company that upended media, culture, industry, and democracy--by a leading tech journalist Across the world, people watch more than a billion hours of video on YouTube every day.
His deep access Inside the company makes Like, Comment, Subscribe a thrilling, character-driven story of technological and creative ingenuity and the hubris that undermined it..
Mark Bergen, a top technology reporter at Bloomberg , might know Google better than any other reporter in Silicon Valley, having broken numerous stories about its successes and scandals.
It\'s the story of a revolution in media and an industry run amok, how a devotion to a simple idea--let everyone broadcast online and make money doing so--unleashed an outrage and addiction machine that spun out of the company\'s control and forever changed the world.
Like, Comment, Subscribe is the first book to reveal the Inside story of YouTube\'s technology and business, detailing how it helped Google, its parent company, achieve unimaginable power, a narrative told through the people who run YouTube and the stars born on its stage.
And yet virtually no one knows how it works.
Everyone knows YouTube.
YouTube invented the attention economy we all live in today, forever changing how people are entertained, informed, and paid online.
Every minute, more than five hundred additional hours of footage are uploaded to the site, a technical feat unmatched in the history of computing.
The definitive, deeply reported account of YouTube, the company that upended media, culture, industry, and democracy--by a leading tech journalist Across the world, people watch more than a billion hours of video on YouTube every day
