Youtube - Article

Youtube

Youtube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steven Chen and Jawed Karim, former employees of Paypal in 2005. The reason why they invented this site was becuase while they was on a birthday party they took some pictures. They then started to talk about how hard it was to find public videos on the internet  of for example the big tzunami in sout asia in 2004. That was when they came up with the idea of making a website where people could share videos with other people from every country without having to pay anyone. That is why they'r motto is "Broadcast Yourself". Youtube was officially launched in December 2005

Google

Google bought youtube in 2006 for a total of $1.65 Billion. $66 million went to Karim, 310 for Chen and 334 for Hurley. The firs month after the creation of youtube the page already had 3 million visitors. The amount of visitors tripled by the third month which was february and then tripled again by July. Youtube had now 30 million visitors.

Statistics

Now in 2013, youtube is the second most used searching engine after google. It is bigger than bing yahoo and ask combined together. Acording to statistics, youtube's viewers are based on 56% Male and 44% Female and most of them are ranged by the age 12-17. In 2007 it was estimated that youtube had as much bandwith as the whole entire internet had in 2000. Over 450.000 years of video are watched on youtube each month as of 2013.

Attractive girls

The very first sharing website was ShareYourWorld.com founded in 1997, but since the technology wasn't good enough to make good videos at that time they soon went out of bussines. In the early stages of yotube they offered young, attractive girls 100$ for publishing at least 10 videos. This was ment as advertisement for the site but the offers they sent were never answered. The first video ever to be published on youtube was "Me at the zoo".