what is youtube?

     YouTube one of the biggest social media platforms on earth, the name YouTube is very straightforward you represent the user-generated content and tube business order transfer television. This multi-billion dollar company has billions of users and thousands of hours of video content uploaded every few minutes. Did you know that billions of videos are watched on YouTube every single day how did it become so big? Read this topic to find out.

     On February fourteenth, 2005 YouTube was launched by three PayPal employees job Kareem Steve Chen and Chad Hurley. Together they wish to create an online site for people to share videos about themselves this concept quickly evolved and expanded on to a broader platform, the first-ever video was uploaded by job Kareem and was named me at the zoo, during the nineteen-second clip, he shows keys to a group of elephant's located in the San Diego zoo, the first YouTube headquarters was located above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurants San Matteo California. 

     In December 2005 a Nike commercial of Brazilian soccer player Ronaldinho receiving a pair of golden boots became the first video to receive 1 million views, that same year the five-star rating system playlist for screen view and subscriptions were introduced. 

     In 2006, YouTube became one of the fastest growing online locations with more than 65000 video uploads and a hundred million views per day, making it the fifth most popular website. Beginning in March of 2006 its business model begins advertisement-based, generating 15 million dollars per month. Later that same year YouTube's exponential growth compelled Google to purchase it for 1.65 billion dollars.

     In 2007 YouTube rolled out its partner program allowing regular folks to earn money for the videos. Quickly hobbies returned into money-making businesses with some successful channels earning six-figure incomes from ad revenue sharing. Back then the Smosh channel was at its peak becoming the more subscribe YouTube channel. 

     In 2009 HD videos were soon introduced spawning high-resolution gaming and vlogging content, YouTube teamed up with the media company Vivendi the larger new music video service called Vevo, and response to music companies complaints about privacy and unfair licensing terms, as part of the deal Vevo can distribute its music videos on YouTube setting the foundation for Vevo massive YouTube presence today. YouTube's total viewership soon rivaled and eventually surpassed that of television.

     In 2010 content creator Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg joined YouTube with the channel name PewDiePie. At first, he provided video game commentary before expanding to vlogging about the internet memes PewDiePie has since the past 100 million subscribers and has the most up scribe to solo creator on the platform today. With an eye on innovation, YouTube better skips all ads allowing customers to skip over ads after five seconds and large straight into the video they wanted to watch. In December 2010 the first you to rewind video retrospective was uploaded titled 2010 YouTube rewind year in review it future the top 10 most popular videos for the preceding year. YouTube rewind.

     In 2011 YouTube live was launched allowing the streaming of news and special events such as concerts, gaming tournaments, royal weddings, and worldwide sporting events such as the Olympics. During the next few years, YouTube created partnerships with mainstream media to create several news gaming and entertainment channels. 

     In 2015 Google launched YouTube Music and YouTube kids a new family-friendly version of the video platform that filtered content to insurance safer minors. The kid's platform offered panto controls like limited screen time and disabling search the launch of YouTube gaming provided a way for gamers to live stream their play sessions to a live audience that allows them to interact and chat in real-time. 

     In 2019 popular channels PewDiePie and T-series would be locked in a fierce battle to be the first to reach 100 million subscribers. PewDiePie an individual content creator was helped by an amazing international grassroots campaign and numerous other YouTube stars such as Mr. beast and Logan Paul, They would play a big role in helping PewDiePie achieve its goal before T-series. On May 29 T-series a Bollywood music label won the epic contest by reaching 100 million subscribers to the dismay of PewDiePie as many loyal fans.