What is youTube

   

What is YouTube and history of YouTube social media platforms

What actually YouTube is?

YouTube one of the biggest social media platforms on earth.

The name YouTube is very straightforward, you represents the user-generated content and Tube is an older term for television.

This multi-billion dollar company has billions of users and thousands of hours of video content uploaded every few minutes.

Did you know that billions of videos are watched on YouTube every single day.

How did it become so big watch your video to find out.

On February 14 2005 YouTube was launched by three PayPal employees job Kareem, Steve Chen and Chad Hurley.

Together they wish to create an online site for people to share videos about themselves.

This concept quickly evolved and expanded on to a broader platform. 

The first ever video was uploaded by jawed Karim and was named "me at the zoo", during this 19 second clip he showcased a group of elephants located in the San Diego Zoo.

The first YouTube headquarters was located above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo California.

In December 2005 a Nike commercial of Brazilian soccer player Ronald Eno receiving his pair of golden boots became the first video to receive 1 million views.

that same year the five-star rating system playlists fullscreen view and subscriptions were introduced.

In 2006 YouTube became one of the fastest growing online locations with more than 65,000 video uploads and a hundred million views per day making it the fifth the most popular website.

Beginning in March of 2006 its business model became advertisement based generating 15 million dollars per month.

 later that same year YouTube's exponential growth compelled Google to purchase it for 1.65 billion dollars.

 in 2007 YouTube rolled out its partner program allowing regular folks turn for their videos.

Quickly hobbies were turned into money-making businesses with some successful channels earning six-figure incomes from ad revenue sharing, back then the Smosh channel was at its peak becoming the most subscribed YouTube channel. In 2009 HD videos were soon introduced spawning high resolution gaming and vlogging content.

YouTube teamed up with the media company Vivendi to launch a new music video service called VEVO in response to music companies complains about privacy and unfair licensing terms.

As part of the deal VEVO can distribute its music videos on YouTube setting the foundation for vivos massive YouTube presence today.

YouTube's total viewership soon rivaled and eventually surpassed that of television.

In 2010 content creator Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg joined YouTube with the channel name PewDiePie.

At first he provided video game commentary before expanding to vlogging about internet memes. PewDiePie has since surpassed a hundred million subscribers and is the most subscribed to solo creator on the platform today. with an eye on innovation YouTube introduced skippable ads allowing customers to skip over ads after 5 seconds and launch straight into the video they wanted to watch. in December 2010 the first YouTube rewind video retrospective was uploaded titled 2010 YouTube rewind year-in-review, it featured the top 10 most popular videos for the preceding year.

YouTube rewind 2018 is currently the most disliked video on YouTube.

In 2011 YouTube Live was launched allowing the streaming of news and special events such as concerts, gaming tournaments,royal weddings and worldwide sporting events such as the Olympics. during the next few years YouTube created partnerships with mainstream media to create several news gaming and entertainment channels.

In 2015 Google launched YouTube music and YouTube kids a new family-friendly version of the video platform that filtered content to ensure it's safe for minors.

The Kids platform offered parental controls, like limited screen time and disabling search.

The launch of YouTube gaming provided a way for gamers to live stream their play sessions to a live audience thus allowing them to interact and chat in real time.

In 2019 popular channels PewDiePie and t-series would be locked in a fierce battle to be the first to reach 100 million subscribers.

PewDiePie an individual content creator was helped by an amazing international grassroots campaign and numerous other YouTube stars such as Mr. beast and Logan Paul.

They would play a big role in helping PewDiePie achieve his goal before T series.

On May 29 t-series a Bollywood music label won the epic contest by reaching 100 million subscribers to the dismay of PewDiePie as many loyal fans.

what does the future hold for YouTube....well this unique platform continue to break barriers fulfill exceptional goals and innovate.