Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
YouTube Ad Revenue Inches Up 4.8% in Q2, Slowest Growth in More Than Two Years
variety.comTodd Spangler NY Digital EditorYouTube still banks a huge bucket of ad bucks — hitting $7.34 billion in the second quarter — but the video giant’s growth has decelerated to its lowest pace in more than two years.YouTube’s ad revenue grew just 4.8% in Q2, according to Alphabet, the parent of Google and YouTube.
That was under Wall Street expectations: Analysts had forecast YouTube ad revenue increasing 7% year over year to $7.49 billion.
The results come after YouTube’s Q1 ad sales had missed estimates by a wider margin.YouTube saw a 84% revenue boom in the same period last year, to $7 billion, coming off the relatively anemic 5.8% bump in Q2 2020 amid the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.
Alphabet first broke out YouTube ad revenue for the 2019 calendar year. Click here to sign up for Variety’s free Strictly Business newsletter covering earnings, financial news, and more.Overall, Alphabet slightly missed earnings forecasts.
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