Like, Comment, Subscribe

Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination

By: Mark Bergen

Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins

The gripping inside story 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. Every minute, more than five hundred additional hours of footage are uploaded to the site, a technical feat unmatched in the history of computing. YouTube invented the attention economy we all live in today, forever changing how people are entertained, informed, and paid online. Everyone knows YouTube. And yet virtually no one knows how it works.

Like, Comment, Subscribe is the first book to reveal the riveting, behind-the-scenes account 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 famous stars born on its stage. 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.

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. As compelling as the very platform it investigates, Like, Comment, Subscribe is a thrilling, character-driven story of technological and creative ingenuity and the hubris that undermined it.

Knowing the social media platforms we use

Hey, we often forget the evolutionarily process of the platforms we use and how they influence us each day I use YouTube for everything from learning to entertainment. The story definitely is worthy of your time to hear well told well laid out. an amazing journey to power and prominence highly recommend it.

Nothing new

There is very little “inside” knowledge, it is kore of a historical summary of YouTube.

Amazingly complicated and fascinating story about a service we take for granted today.

It has been around for such a short period and it has eclipsed the old networks!

Terrifying and enlightening.

I’m a YouTuber. I make a living, and support several people in my company with my youtube content.

This book absolutely terrified me. But also gave me hope? But also terrified me.

So yeah. Worth a listen, if you’re interested in arguably the most powerful media company in the history of the planet.

This helps you better understand youtube’s algorithm

It is a very entertaining book, explains just how influential youtube really is, It sheds light on just how life changing the website really is. I would give it a read if you don’t know much about youtube’s history