YouTube’s Neal Mohan Named Time CEO of the Year

Key Highlights

• “It’s incredibly disruptive, and if you don’t adapt, you can be left by the wayside.” Over the past 20 years, Google-owned YouTube has become the undisputed most-watched video platform in the world.
• It’s the preferred starting point for countless self-made influencers, podcasters, commentators and entrepreneurs and over time has made it into the big leagues of TV through rights deals with the NFL, Disney, Warner Bros.
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• or Something' After Nearly a Decade: “I Was Really Ready to Reintroduce Myself” Mohan described the video platform as “a metropolis with lots of interconnected dependencies, and what you do on one street impacts what happens on another street.” “In the early days, it was much more like a village, where lots of the creators knew each other,” Mohan told Time.