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YouTube was founded in 2005, on Febuary 14th by, Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, and Steve Chen.
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The first video posted onto the website was named, "Me at the zoo." Uploaded by Jawed.
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A year after the website went live it was bought by its current parent company, Google.
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YouTube launched it's Partner Priogram which allowed its users to monitize their content to earn from it
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Mobile users were able to use the site.
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In April of 2011 YouTube rolled out “YouTube Live” which allowed select users to live stream, eventually it was made so that just about anyone with an account could.
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In February YouTube created a better version of its app for the IOS after it had been removed from the app store because of an expired license.
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In Febuary of 2014, Susan Wojcicki was appointed the CEO position of YouTube.
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YouTube launched their subscription service "YouTube Premium" which was originally named "Music Key" and "YouTube Red". Originally a music service to eventually being able to watch or listen to anyting on the app ad-free.
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Due to COPPA, YouTube had made its users start to start marking wether or not their videos were made for kids.
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Google shut down Play Music and had YouTube Music replace, along with Google podcasts.
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YouTube rolled out its "YouTube Shorts" feature onto the website.
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YouTube released YouTube Shorts worldwide after its introduction in Inida on September 15th, 2020.
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YouTube made it so that viewers were unable to see the amount of dislikes a video had, apparently to protect the creator from online harassment despite the fact the creator themselves could see it themselves in the video's analytics.
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Susan Wojcicki stepped down from her position as YouTubes CEO, then Neal Mohan had been appointed to the position.