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YouTube is created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. A simple idea for a "Flickr for video" resulted in claiming the web address "youtube.com" immediately.
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The first video is uploaded by Jawed Karim, entitled, "Me at the zoo."
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Nike was the first to promote their products on YouTube.
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Google buys YouTube for the "small" price of $1.65 billion.
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The mobile application for YouTube was released in June 2007.
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7 out of 16 candidates of the 2008 election ran their campaigns through YouTube.
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YouTube was awarded the Peabody Award for being "a 'Speakers' Corner' that both embodies and promotes democracy."
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3D video for YouTube is announced by YouTube software engineer Peter Bradshaw.
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One billion views per day is passed on the site.
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Sporting events, including 60 cricket matches in the Indian Premier League, were streamed on YouTube for the first time, for free.
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YouTube receives three billion video views per day.
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YouTube claims to recieve four billion video views per day.
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YouTube adds a "promotes terrorism" option to the list of reasons a user can tag a video as inappropriate for.
