Three former PayPal employees Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim launched the popular website YouTube, where individuals and companies can upload, view and share videos.
Steve Chen had worked at Facebook for a few months before quitting to set up YouTube in 2005 with Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim.
YouTube's first headquarters sat above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California.
Three key experiences inspired the YouTube founders. Karim had had trouble finding footage online of Janet Jackson's Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction and, later, of the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. And Hurley and Chen had difficulty sharing a video shot at a dinner party in San Francisco in 2005.
The domain name YouTube.com was activated on February 14, 2005 and the site was developed months after.
Jawed Karim was the first person to upload a video onto the YouTube. The film entitled Me At The Zoo was uploaded on April 23, 2005 at 20:31. The 19-second video was shot by Karim's high school fiend Yakov Lapitsky and shows the YouTube co-founder at the San Diego Zoo. It has racked up over 70 million views as of June 2019.
During the summer of 2006, YouTube was one of the fastest growing sites on the World Wide Web, hosting over 65,000 new video uploads.
Google bought the YouTube site on November 13, 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries. It was a bold move for Google at the time, as YouTube was still a relatively new and unproven company.
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| From left to right: Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. By Composite image by user:Ianmacm, |
Steve Chen had worked at Facebook for a few months before quitting to set up YouTube in 2005 with Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim.
YouTube's first headquarters sat above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California.
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| YouTube's early headquarters in San Mateo By Coolcaesar |
Three key experiences inspired the YouTube founders. Karim had had trouble finding footage online of Janet Jackson's Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction and, later, of the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. And Hurley and Chen had difficulty sharing a video shot at a dinner party in San Francisco in 2005.
The domain name YouTube.com was activated on February 14, 2005 and the site was developed months after.
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| The site as it appeared a few months after its launch By Source (WP:NFCC#4), |
Jawed Karim was the first person to upload a video onto the YouTube. The film entitled Me At The Zoo was uploaded on April 23, 2005 at 20:31. The 19-second video was shot by Karim's high school fiend Yakov Lapitsky and shows the YouTube co-founder at the San Diego Zoo. It has racked up over 70 million views as of June 2019.
During the summer of 2006, YouTube was one of the fastest growing sites on the World Wide Web, hosting over 65,000 new video uploads.
Google bought the YouTube site on November 13, 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries. It was a bold move for Google at the time, as YouTube was still a relatively new and unproven company.
Google has invested heavily in YouTube since the acquisition, and the platform has grown significantly as a result. Today, YouTube is the world's largest video-sharing website, with over 2 billion active users. It is also a major source of revenue for Google, generating over $28 billion in advertising revenue in 2022.
Peter Oakley, known as Geriatric1927 on YouTube, was the most subscribed YouTube account in 2006. In his channel he talked about his life experiences, such as growing up in the United Kingdom during World War II and experiencing the British interwar school system. Oakley passed away in 2014 at 86 years old.
Justin Bieber was discovered by chance when he was 12. His mom uploaded a video to YouTube of him singing in a talent contest, intending it just for his family. However, when music executive Scooter Braun clicked on it he was immediately impressed and signed him up.
The music video for PSY's "Gangnam Style" forced YouTube into an upgrade after it broke the video-sharing website's hit counter. Once PSY's tune reached 2,147,483,647 views, the maximum positive value for a 32-bit signed binary integer in computing, the view-counter could no longer work.
For three years, the music video for Luis Fonsi's "Despacito" was the most-watched clip of all time on YouTube. It became the first on YouTube to receive three billion, four billion, five billion and six billion views on August 4, 2017; October 11, 2017; April 5, 2018; February 24, 2019, respectively. Pinkfong's children's song "Baby Shark Dance" overtook "Despacito" as the most viewed video on YouTube on November 2, 2020, when the clip hit 7,042,967,886 views.
Kenyan javelin thrower Julius Yego, who won silver at the 2016 Rio Olympics, learned how to throw properly by watching YouTube videos.
The word "YouTuber" was officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2016.
As of 2018, China and North Korea both were permanently blocking accessing YouTube.
As of August 2018, the YouTube website was ranked as the second-most popular site in the world, according to Alexa Internet.
Peter Oakley, known as Geriatric1927 on YouTube, was the most subscribed YouTube account in 2006. In his channel he talked about his life experiences, such as growing up in the United Kingdom during World War II and experiencing the British interwar school system. Oakley passed away in 2014 at 86 years old.
Justin Bieber was discovered by chance when he was 12. His mom uploaded a video to YouTube of him singing in a talent contest, intending it just for his family. However, when music executive Scooter Braun clicked on it he was immediately impressed and signed him up.
The music video for PSY's "Gangnam Style" forced YouTube into an upgrade after it broke the video-sharing website's hit counter. Once PSY's tune reached 2,147,483,647 views, the maximum positive value for a 32-bit signed binary integer in computing, the view-counter could no longer work.
For three years, the music video for Luis Fonsi's "Despacito" was the most-watched clip of all time on YouTube. It became the first on YouTube to receive three billion, four billion, five billion and six billion views on August 4, 2017; October 11, 2017; April 5, 2018; February 24, 2019, respectively. Pinkfong's children's song "Baby Shark Dance" overtook "Despacito" as the most viewed video on YouTube on November 2, 2020, when the clip hit 7,042,967,886 views.
Kenyan javelin thrower Julius Yego, who won silver at the 2016 Rio Olympics, learned how to throw properly by watching YouTube videos.
The word "YouTuber" was officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2016.
As of 2018, China and North Korea both were permanently blocking accessing YouTube.
As of August 2018, the YouTube website was ranked as the second-most popular site in the world, according to Alexa Internet.
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