History of Youtube

Youtube was founded on February 14, 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. The three paypal employees first came up with the idea after realizing that there wasn’t one location where you could share videos, and it wasn’t until the Janet Jackson Super Bowl and the December tsunami that they finally decided to create Youtube. In 2005 the three received a start up fund of $11.5 Million from Sequoia Capital. The first ever video that was created was named “Me at the Zoo'' and it was uploaded by Karim and it currently has 86 million views. After the site eventually blew up Google bought Youtube for $1.65 Billion, they also allowed Youtube to remain independently operated. Nowadays you can watch a plethora of different videos on Youtube like: gaming, news, music and the ever popular vloggers. When the site first kicked off the most popular ‘Youtubers’ were gaming channels from the likes of Markiplier, SkyDoesMinecraft and Pewdiepie; nowadays the most popular channels are vloggers or story time Youtubers like: Logan Paul, David Dobrik and CaseyNeistat. When the age of video game Youtubers fell a lot of the original users of Youtube became very upset that it got harder for video game Youtubers to make videos because of the Youtube laws, so to try and help these users they created Youtube Gaming in 2015 which also introduced their live streaming service Youtube Live which was meant to rival Twitch, unfortunately Youtube Gaming failed. As well in 2015 Youtube created a way for Youtubers to create more idealistic and imaginative projects with Youtube Red; Youtube Red came out to minimal success with some shows still going on today. Most recently with the resurgence of live streaming Youtube once again had a chance to rival the titan that is Twitch; in 2015 Youtube paid famous Twitch streamer CourageJD to stream exclusively on Youtube. Nowadays more than 1 billion videos are viewed a day on Youtube, it has created a culture for every generation.

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