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After this incident these three friends who were at the time trying to launch an online dating platform felt that it was difficult to find any video footage of the incident.
They came up with the idea for YouTube and started this business above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California.
"YouTube.com" was officially activated on February 14/2005. -
Three friends Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim all worked for Paypal. They came up for the idea of YouTube following the Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake Half Time Show Incident. This was referred to as the “Nipplegate” incident and happened at the 2004 Super Bowl. Justin Timberlake tore off a piece of Janet Jackson’s costume showing her breast on live television! It was called a “wardrobe malfunction” -
YouTube.com was trafficking around 30,000 viewers a day within just a few months of launch. -
This was the first ever video uploaded to YouTube.
It has Jawed Karim and he was recorded by one of his high school friends.
He is at the San Diego Zoo in California.
It was called a "milestone" in the history of YouTube
To date it has had more than 363 million views !! -
YouTube started out being "Angel Funded" but in November 2005 Sequoia capital invested an initial 3.5 million and would later invest another 8 million -
YouTube became one of the fastest growing websites in the summer of 2006 with an average of 100 million video views per day with more than 65,000 new video uploads.
There started to be copyright issues and they started outsourcing to Google. -
YouTube was purchased by Google for 1.65 billion US in stock. This help YouTube's rise to becoming a "global media dominator".
The plan was for the co-founders to continue operation with 68 employees. ] -
It is estimated that in 2007, YouTube consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000! The YouTube Awards started in March 2007 and were an annual competition where users voted on the best videos of the year. -
YouTube produced televised presidential debates where questions could be asked of the US Democratic and Republican Candidates -
This Program allowed channels who had at least 1000 subscribers and 4000 public watch hours in the last year to run ads on their videos and earn money for it!
This allowed channels to be monetized -
YouTube was becoming more and more popular.
More than 2 billion views each day. -
3 Billion Views per day and users uploading 48 hours of video every minute! -
This would be the highest earning YouTuber Ever!
He was just 13 years when he started.
His early videos were of him playing MineCraft and Call of Duty.
He went on to have an estimated networth of 1 billion and it all started on YouTube! -
There started to be concerns about the content kids could see. YouTube developed "YouTube Kids". This was a standalone app which would provide kid-friendly content. This app blocked a lot of good content that was on YouTube and was almost too childish especially for kids who were a little older -
This was the opportunity for YouTube viewers to pay for a premium AD FREE version of YouTube. Ther service started out at $10 per month.
This service also let people download videos so they could watch them when they were offline -
YouTube Red changed to YouTube Premium - the services were essentially the same but with a different name. Including Ad-free, being able to play videos in the background while having different windows open, being able to watch offline on mobile devices.
There was also a music streaming service.
YouTube Originals - is excelusive content produced by YouTube this was also available on YouTube Premium. -
There was a massive rise in influencers and full time content creators. Rules got stricter for creators and they only got paid if they followed the rules. These rules were made because there was public criticism over controversial content earning money.
Some big influencers at this time were PewDiePie, Jake Paul and Logan Paul. During this time vlogging and makeup tutorials became very popular. -
Adverstisers starting pulling their ads when they found out their ads were appearing on inappropriate content. There was a period of demonetization and new policies. -
The goal here was to compete with TikTok and Instagram. Shorts are up to 60 seconds. This became very popular quickly as people liked it's quick format. -
To decrease targeted harassment Youtube removed the "dislike" button , creators could still see information privately.
100 million dollars was added to a Shorts Fund to reward short-form creators. This showed a growing competition with TikTok. -
2.5 Billion Monthly Active Users, second only to Facebook -
The CEO Susan Wojcicki steps down and Neal Mohan became the new CEO
AI-driven tools were added. -
The world's leading video sharing platform.
2.7 billion monthly active users
500 hours of content every minute uploaded!