Five feathers of YouTube added to NTV Online crown
From roadside tea stalls to post drawing rooms YouTube has spread to people of every sphere of life. Some people like to watch latest news updates or favourite dramas, while others enjoy sport matches in YouTube.
YouTube is one of the most popular video sharing websites in the world, with visitors watching around six billion hours of video every month.
Beside television, millions of users around the world can share and watch videos on the American video-sharing platform.
Considering the importance of news media in YouTube, NTV Online started its journey at YouTube and established a strong position with its resourceful channel. Meanwhile, NTV’s YouTube channel achieved several rewards for its outstanding performance.
As videos are the main content of YouTube, the YouTube authorities recognise its most popular channels by handing over YouTube Creator Rewards.
Till October 2017 NTV Online achieved two rewards from YouTube authorities. Now, NTV Online, one of the prominent online news portals of Bangladesh, got two more awards from YouTube. Two channels of NTV achieved ‘YouTube Creator Rewards’.
In November 2017, NTV Online achieved two more Silver Play Button from YouTube for their ‘NTV Live’ and ‘NTV Bangla Movie’ channels. Both of the channels are subscribed by more than 100,000 people.
In May 2017, YouTube honoured NTV by rewarding it with ‘YouTube Silver Play Button’ trophy for its channel ‘NTV Natok’. TV, as the first and only television among public and private televisions in Bangladesh, was received the prestigious reward from YouTube.
In October, YouTube honoured NTV by rewarding it with ‘YouTube Silver Play Button’ trophy for the second time to its NTV Entertainment channel. The channel has more than 100,000 subscribers.
And in March 2018 NTV Online achieve another reward from YouTube that has made the bilingual infotainment portal the owner of total five YouTube awards.
Expressing his feelings about the reward, Head of NTV Online Khandaker Fakaruddin Ahmed said, ‘We created the official YouTube channel of NTV only two years 11 days back. Within the very little span of time, we achieved the highest subscribers count in Bangladesh. People across the world watch news and programmes on our channels—Natok, Entertainment, Telefilm, Movie. We’re feeling great after receiving the reward from YouTube. This time, we got four Silver Play Button Rewards. I hope we will achieve the Gold, Diamond, and Ruby buttons in the future.’
NTV’s digital platform NTV Online started its journey in February 2015. At that moment, the official YouTube channel of NTV was also launched. Soon after the inception, NTV Online prioritized on its video contents. With the involvements of its subscribers, NTV has reached a milestone today. A total of 15 channels of NTV have more than 575,000 subscribers, which is the highest number of subscribers in Bangladesh.
Among the 15 channels, NTV Natok has become more popular owing to its dramas and telefilms. More than 173,000 subscribers follow the channel.
Recently, NTV Entertainment channel has also crossed around 109,000 subscribers.
YouTube is one of the most popular websites in Bangladesh. The web traffic data supply organization Alexa ranked YouTube as the top of their ranking in 2016.
YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in California, USA. The service was created by three former PayPal employees – Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim – in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006; YouTube now operates as one of Google’s subsidiaries. The site allows users to upload, view, rate, share, add to favorites, report and comment on videos, subscribe to other users, and it makes use of WebM, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, and Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated and corporate media videos. Available content includes video clips, TV show clips, music videos, short and documentary films, audio recordings, movie trailers and other content such as video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos.
The 15 YouTube channels of NTV are—NTV, NTV Live, NTV News, NTV Natok, NTV Telefilms, NTV Bangla Movie, NTV Cooking Show, NTV Entertainment, NTV Drama Serials, NTV Health, NTV Islamic Show, NTV Lifestyle, NTV Travel Show, NTV Bangla Fun, NTV Uncut Videos.
The subscription of the channels is soaring day by day. You may astonish knowing the view time of the channels every day. It is 7 million minutes!
You can also subscribe NTV’s YouTube channels from the following links—