Video services Rutube and YouTube will coexist in parallel on the Russian market

According to the head of the commission of the Federation Council on information policy and interaction with the media, Alexei

Pushkov, which leads TASS, video servicesRutube and YouTube will coexist in parallel on the Russian market. The role of the Rutube service is gradually increasing, at the moment it contains 20 million videos. The level of popularity of this platform among the population exceeds 80%. There is also a consistent increase in the number of authors working on the platform. Currently, the number of monthly working authors has reached 60,000, which is 10 times more than the number of authors working on Rutube at the beginning of 2022. At the same time, it is recognized that YouTube is quite firmly entrenched in the Russian information space. Earlier, Rutube CEO Alexander Moiseev noted that Rutube was developed as a local Russian-language platform with its own local specifics, and they did not plan to make it a direct competitor to YouTube.