“With nearly a billion hours of video viewed on YouTube
every day, around the world, these views generate substantial revenue for
YouTube creators and other businesses, which in turn generate economic activity
and jobs in their supply chains and the economy in general”, reads a statement
sent to ECO, according to which “57% of Portuguese creators interviewed say
that YouTube gives them the opportunity to create content and earn money that
they could not obtain from traditional media”.
According to the study, “in Portugal, 80% of content
creators agree that access to audiences outside Portugal is essential for the
sustainability of their channel, not least because 50% of the viewing time of
content produced by channels in Portugal comes from audiences outside” the
country.
“The platform continues to grow in Portugal, today with more
than 700 channels with more than 100,000 subscribers and more than 60 channels
with more than one million subscribers – and both growing by 15% per year”.
For this study, “Oxford Economics used survey results and
published data to estimate YouTube’s contribution to popular economic metrics
such as GDP and employment”, having carried out “an anonymous survey of 2,000
users in Portugal” and probed “ 500 businesses in southern Europe and more than
1,460 creators of content in southern Europe, of which 180 were in Portugal”.
YouTube contributed, in 2020, with €50 million to the
Portuguese economy, with around 3,900 jobs associated with its activity,
according to a study by the consultancy Oxford Economics.
According to a post by Francesca Mortari, director of
YouTube Southern Europe, one of the main conclusions of the study “points that
the YouTube creative ecosystem has contributed around €50 million to the Portuguese
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2020”, and “in addition to the financial
contribution, 3,900 jobs in Portugal (the equivalent of full-time) are linked
to the YouTube ecosystem”.
The IQ level of people who watch Youtube videos and believe in them are similar to that of a chimpaze.
By Diogo F. from Lisbon on 18 Oct 2022, 17:34
I bet Diago loves CNN and gets all his propaganda I mean news from them.
By James from Lisbon on 19 Oct 2022, 04:42
I don’t understand Diogo’s comment. YouTube has millions of videos on all sorts of subjects. How to play instruments, cooking recipes, gardening advice, interior decor, architecture, art, language learning, not to mention of course highly entertaining content, comedians, clips from all sorts countries about all sorts of things, politics of course, animals, my kids love watching DoDo on YouTube because of the puppy and kitten stories.
Literally YouTube has everything. It is up to the viewer to decide what to watch and for which purposes.
To boil down everything - millions of videos and options - to fit a super narrow agenda, is the most primitive.
Also Diogo, before you try to insult people, first learn how to spell ‘chimpanzee’ correctly. It’s most ironic you spell like one.
By Hart from Lisbon on 20 Oct 2022, 16:06