YouTube, which we all use in our daily lives sometimes to listen to music and sometimes to follow the content producers we love, is currently the pinnacle of digital broadcasting. So how was YouTube founded? How did it get so big? Who are the founders of YouTube? What was the first video shared on YouTube? Here is the founding story of YouTube with its details…
How was YouTube founded? Who are the founders of YouTube?
Actually, YouTube didn’t come up as a startup idea. As a result of an unfortunate event that happened at that time, the idea of YouTube came to the minds of its founders. In 2004, Janet Jackson gave a mini concert with Justin Timberlake during a halftime break in the United States’ National Football League. Towards the end of the concert, Janet Jackson’s breasts were accidentally exposed. Those who recorded the concert at that time immortalized this moment.
With the unfortunate event that happened to Janet Jackson, the concept of viral video emerged. Those who were most interested in this viral video concept were Chad Hurley, 29 at the time, Steven Cehn, 28, and Jawed Karim, 25. These 3 friends were tech-savvy and fun-loving buddies working at PayPal. In the evening they gathered again, they thought that it was very difficult to reach the viral videos and there must be a way to solve this situation. And they came up with the idea of YouTube.
When they came to the end of the dinner, they thought that a platform where viral videos would be shared would attract a lot of attention, that new internet phenomena would emerge – a phenomenon that shook the world like Internet Mahir at that time – and that their popularity would increase with it. Then they started working and when the dates were February 14, 2005, YouTube was opened to users.
What was the first video uploaded to YouTube?
YouTube, whose development process was completed in the garage of their home, was opened to users on February 14, 2005. Jawed Karim, one of the founders of the platform, uploaded the first video. The first video uploaded to YouTube was also Jawed Karim describing his trip to the San Diego Zoo. The video takes 19 seconds in total. When you search YouTube by typing Jawed Karim, this video comes up first.
Later, YouTube ceased to be a viral video platform and became a digital media broadcast. In this context, YouTube, which was established in the garage, received its first investment from Google, which was also established in the garage. And this first investment came very soon after the platform was founded. Google has invested $3.5 billion. When the dates came to 2006, YouTube has now become a completely digital media platform and has become a platform with 100 million views per day.
In the following processes, many concepts such as being a YouTuber, YouTube companies, YouTube partners entered our lives. Because the platform has taken itself to the next level and become a place where people can earn income through advertisements. ShiftDelete.Net hasn’t lagged behind this viral. ShiftDelete.Net team opened the YouTube channel on August 26, 2013 and has been producing technology content regularly for 10 years.
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