Youtube: from the beginning

Domain Name "YouTube.com" was Bought

Feb 14, 2005

First Video uploaded to YouTube

Apr 23, 2005

First Video on YouTube
The First Video uploaded on Saturday, April 23, 2005 at 8:27PM
The video was shot by Yakov Lapitsky at the San Diego Zoo.

Initial Investment of 3.5 Million Dollars by Sequoia Capital

Nov 1, 2005

YouTube Entered into a Marketing & Advertisement Partnership with NBC

Jun 1, 2006

100 Million Video Clips Viewed Daily

Jul 16, 2006

Final Deals to Acquire YouTube

Nov 13, 2006

Google Finalizes the paperwork to purchase YouTube.
Final Price was $1.65 Billion in Stock

Blocked in China

Mar 24, 2009

Google announces that China has Blocked YouTube

Live Streaming

Apr 8, 2011

YouTube annouced that they will be providing Live Streaming Services