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YouTube was founded by three former PayPal employees Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim in February of 2005.
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Titled "Me at the zoo", the first Youtube video was uploaded and now has over 10 million views. The video shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo.
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Nike was the first to see the potential in promoting via YouTube by having soccer player Ronaldinho dances the samba to promote his gold legend shoes. The video was an instant viral success.
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Blendtec spent $50 creating a video that the company uploaded to YouTube. The video showed the blender blending a bag of marbles easily. Shortly after and 6 million views later, Blendtec made a name for themselves via YouTube.
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Dynomighty Design designs unique products such as wallets and jewelry. Seen on Google's blog, YouTube was the platform for sucess. From their first video alone, the small business produce $130,000 in sales.
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Becoming increasingly popular, this video viewing platform was launched in 9 countries worldwide creating even more buzz and interaction through the site with international sharing. Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and the United Kingdom each receive their own version of YouTube.
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River Pools utilizes YouTube to videos/' >showcase his business expertise</a> for his small business through video and reel in more sales than other leading companies in the industry.
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After 1 year and 17 million video views later, Orabrush successfully goes from zero sales to nationwide distribution in 2011. Only two years later, Orabrush is now sold in WalMarts and Targets nationally. Their success is credited to the funny YouTube videos OraBrush released in 2009.
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YouTube reaches the 1 billion video views per day benchmark showing their impact on society just three years after Google acquired YouTube.
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SquareTrade, a warranty company, created a series of "drop test" videos where they dropped popular electronic devices such as Iphones, Ipads, etc. The videos went viral and help this small business significantly increase their traffic.
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[4 billion](outube-global.blogspot.com/2012/01/holy-nyans-60-hours-per-minute-and-4.html) YouTube views per day were announced the same day announced that 60 hours of video are uploaded every minute.
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PSY - Gangnam Style was the first video to receive 1 billion views shortly after becoming the most-watched YouTube video in history.
