WAVES 2025: India big focus market for YouTube, says Gautam Anand

India is a huge focus market for YouTube for every initiative that it is working on, said Gautam Anand, YouTube’s Vice President for Asia Pacific region, while citing the launches of YouTube Shorts and YouTube Create apps — which were first launched in India.

“It is a huge focus market for us on everything that we’re doing, (for example) YouTube Shorts was first launched in India before anywhere else in the world. Also, our YouTube Create app was first launched in India before anywhere else in the world.