What is Youtube: what you need to know to be aware
What’s the big fuss about Youtube? You have to live in a cave not to have heard of YouTube, but what is it and how is the internet changing. This article will tell you everything you need to know about the latest internet craze.
WHAT IS YOUTUBE?
YouTube is a popular free video sharing website that
allows users to upload, view and share viral videos.
Video sharing refers to a site that allows the user to distribute their video clips.
The site uses Adobe Flash technology to display videos.
On the About Us page on Youtube.com, it states: “YouTube is a place for people to interact with videos in new ways by sharing, commenting, and watching videos. YouTube originally started as a personal video-sharing service and has become an entertainment destination with people watching more than 70 million videos on the site daily.
YouTube is a place for people to interact with videos in new ways by sharing, commenting, and watching videos. YouTube originally started as a personal video sharing service and has grown into an entertainment destination with people watching more than 100 million videos on the site daily. Our users determine what is popular on the site and can unleash their creativity and broadcast their talents to a global audience.
The YouTube fact sheet continues: “YouTube is creating a community for personal videos, amateur musicians, filmmakers and comedians, and professional content owners…Anyone can broadcast by creating content and distributing it through YouTube. And the community decide what is popular through your ratings and comments.”
CREATION
YouTube was founded by three PayPal employees, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim on February 14, 2005. Since its inception, Jawed Karim has left the company to pursue an advanced degree at Stanford.
WHAT TYPES OF VIDEOS ARE ON YOUTUBE?
The site’s wide variety of content includes movie and TV clips and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging.
There are candid videos of stars:
Britney Spears at the gas station
Star Appearance Clips:
The Tonight Show clip of Matt Damon imitating Matthew McConaughey
Nobody Clips:
A girl named Esme Denters singing…she’s good!
The evolution of a comedian’s dance:
crazy dog:
9 month gestation in 20 seconds
WHAT IS YOUTUBE HYPE ABOUT?
YouTube currently serves 100 million videos per day, with more than 65,000 videos being uploaded daily. According to Hitwise, YouTube videos account for 60 percent of all videos viewed online and people spend an average of 17 minutes per session on the site. According to Nielsen NetRatings, YouTube has almost 20 million unique users per month.
Now with 67 employees, the company was named “Invention of the Year” by TIME magazine in 2006. In October 2006, Google, Inc., announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire the company for $1.65 billion in stock. of Google. The deal closed on November 13, 2006.
Now you can join the rest of the planet and learn the basics of youtube.com!