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Founded
On Febuary 14th, 2005, Youtube was founded by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim -
Me at the Zoo
The first ever Youtube video was created showing co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. -
Beta
Youtube launches Beta Test for the puplic -
Nike ad
Youtubes first ever one million hit video released -
Investment
Sequoia Capital invests 11.5 Million into Youtube -
Website
Youtube's Website was officially released -
Time length
ten-minute limit was introduced in March 2006 after YouTube found that the majority of videos exceeding this length were unauthorized uploads of television shows and films. -
Growing
Youtube announces that they are getting 65,000 videos uploaded a day. -
Google
Google announces it aquired Youtube for 1.65 billion dollars. -
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Users
Youtube has 800 million unique users. -
Mobile Phones
In June 2007, YouTube added an option to watch videos in 3GP format on mobile phones. -
No Plug ins
In January 2010, YouTube launched an experimental version of the site that used the built-in multimedia capabilities of web browsers supporting the HTML5 standardThis allowed videos to be viewed without requiring Adobe Flash Player or any other plug-in to be installed -
2,000,000,000
In May 2010, it was reported that YouTube was serving more than two billion videos a day, which it described as "nearly double the prime-time audience of all three major US television networks combined". -
Views
Youtube gets declared the top video provider with more than 14 billion views in the month of may, 2010. -
3,000,000,000
In May 2011, YouTube reported in its company blog that the site was receiving more than three billion views per day. -
More
Youtube announces that every minute 100 hours of video are being uploaded -
MORE
Youtbe announces it has 300 hours of video be uploaded evry minute. -
YouTube Kids
In February 2015, YouTube announced the launch of a new app specifically for use by children visiting the site, called YouTube Kids. -
Alphabet
On August 10, 2015, Google announced that it was creating a new company, Alphabet
