{"id":1039531,"date":"2026-09-30T08:01:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T02:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1039531"},"modified":"2026-09-30T08:11:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T02:41:26","slug":"youtube-ecosystem-adds-over-rs-18000-crore-to-indias-gdp-supports-9-6-lakh-jobs-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/30\/youtube-ecosystem-adds-over-rs-18000-crore-to-indias-gdp-supports-9-6-lakh-jobs-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube ecosystem adds over Rs 18,000 crore to India&#8217;s GDP, supports 9.6 lakh jobs in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Video-sharing platform YouTube&#8217;s creative ecosystem contributed over Rs 18,000 crore to India&#8217;s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and supported over 9.6 lakh full-time equivalent jobs in the country in 2025, according to a report by Oxford Economics. <\/p>\n<p>The findings point to a significant shift in India&#8217;s digital creator landscape, where independent content creators are increasingly evolving into full-fledged media enterprises, driving employment and local economic activity across both metropolitan centres and smaller towns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video-sharing platform YouTube&#8217;s creative ecosystem contributed over Rs 18,000 crore to India&#8217;s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and supported over 9.6 lakh full-time equivalent jobs in the country in 2025, according to a report by Oxford Economics. The findings point to a significant shift in India&#8217;s digital creator landscape, where independent content creators are increasingly evolving into full-fledged media enterprises, driving employment and local economic activity across both metropolitan centres and smaller towns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039550,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039531\/revisions\/1039550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}