YouTube
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About
YouTube[1] is a video hosting website created in February 2005.
History
The site was founded by three former employees of PayPal, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. The domain name was purchased on February 14th, 2005, making a beta test available to the public in May of that year. The site officially launched in November 2005.
The first video uploaded to YouTube featured one of its founders, Jawed Karim, in front of elephants at the San Diego Zoo. Titled “Me at the zoo,” the video was uploaded on April 23rd, 2005.
Traffic
As of January 2012, YouTube has a Quantcast[2] US score of 3, Alexa[3] Global and US rank of 3, and Compete[4] rank of 4.
On January 23rd, 2012, YouTube announced[5] that they were receiving over four billion views a day on both computers and mobile web. They also revealed that on a daily basis, an hour of video was uploaded per second. To illustrate this, YouTube launched the site One Hour Per Second[6], http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youtube
Search Interest
Search for YouTube began in February 2006 and has steadily increased.
External References
[2] Quantcast – YouTube.com
[3] Alexa – YouTube.com
[4] Compete – YouTube.com
[5] The Next Web – YouTube hits 4 billion daily video views, a 25% increase in the past eight months
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Top Comment
opspe
Nov 26, 2011 at 04:04PM EST+3
This needs +1000 love. Clearly YouTube has had a profound impact on the internet, but this article does not reflect that. With so many sub-memes, the YT hub article really should be more information about viral videos and how they spread, etc, not just about the origins of the site.
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