Chavala Madlena | April 26, 2010
Original article at The Guardian

TYT, which came to national prominence in 2005 with a 99-hour “Live, On Air Filibuster” during supreme court nomination hearings, is also part of a media revolution. Its filibustering was quickly followed by a decision to launch on YouTube. It now averages 13 million viewers a month. The show has been able to keep pace with the mighty networks it competes with by using its popularity to book a wide variety of guests, some of whom may not return: “I heard from [US Senate majority leader] Harry Reid’s office, after his interview, that we were effectively blacklisted for future interview requests. I didn’t really shed a tear. We’re gonna be all right.”

Haydn Shaughnessy | January 20, 2014
Original article at Forbes

Or Young Turks (642 million views). This is where my children get their political news and attitude. Huffington Post has signed up Cenk Uygur, the front man- which is very smart. While Arianna Huffington might want to do a CNN, she knows enough to do buy-in teen and twenties attitude too. Young Turks sounds like improv but the viewpoints are astute and they connect through people with admirable lashings of insight.

Joshua Cohen | July 15, 2011
Original article at TubeFiler

The Young Turks uploaded its first video to YouTube on December 25, 2005. The liberal-progressive and self-proclaimed “first internet TV news show” was created by Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz, Dave Koller, and Jill Pike and born out of a defunct Sirius Satellite Radio program of the same name. It’s done much better online.

Eric Blattberg | October 31, 2014
Original article in Digiday

Here’s a surprise: The most popular news channel on YouTube is not CNN, The New York Times or Vice, but The Young Turks.

With its political and social news coverage, The Young Turks channel racks up roughly 37 million monthly views, according to OpenSlate data. But The Young Turks has expanded intoan entire digital network, with 35 channels spanning sports, technology, film, college life and dozens of other areas. Together, the network attracts over 75 million monthly views from more than 3 million subscribers.