History of YouTube


YouTube is a website that allows users to upload, download, view and share videos.
Founded in February 2005 by 3 former employees of PayPal (Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Karim Jaweb), the online payment company owned by eBay group. Immediately, the young company attracted the interest of investors and the venture capital firm Sequoira.

It all started with a party. The Chad Hurley and Steve Chen in February 2005. Your video was too long spree to send email to your friends.
In his frustration came the idea: a big place where anyone could post and view any video. That was in 2005, now 65.000 new videos are posted daily.

YouTube is easy to use and also free. To view the videos or send them to others no registration required, although for placement on the page.

YouTube also showcasing promotional.
Proof of this is the pilot episode of the series Nobody's watching, which was canceled by NBC before its release. Eighteen months after the pilot appeared on YouTube and received 300,000 visits in 15 days. Now the dispute several channels, including NBC

The technology used by the site is Macromedia Flash (now part of Adobe), but users will not have to deal to turn their creations to the format. YouTube's servers take care of that in the process of "up" (unpload) video.
The formats in which video is sent are: MPEG, AVI, MOV and used for camcorders and cameras built into mobile phones.

Another practical aspect of YouTube is the ability to insert a movie on a website external to their servers, even though the file physically resides on them.
This allows bloggers and Web site creators have the video embedded on their pages.

YouTube hosts a variety of video clips of movies and TV shows, music videos and home videos (although the rules of uploading videos to YouTube from copyright, this material exists in abundance). And in this sense, YouTube has already had some legal run-ins with producers and broadcasters.

The short history of YouTube has the highest exponential growth in memory.
Chad Hurley paid with his credit card the first bill for the broadband connection needed to launch its online video site. Since then, demand has been so explosive (100 million hits per month) the cost of infrastructure has risen to two million dollars per month.
This expenditure could not continue for long, unless they find a way to fund it with advertising revenue. This is where Google comes into play, who bought the October 10, 2006 YouTube for 1,650 million dollars.
Reportedly, YouTube will keep its independence from the Google Video service.

American singer Justin Kimberlake discovers a talented young thanks to YouTube.
The singer announced on June 6, 2007 that it has hired the Dutch singer Esmee Denters to 18 years, which saw in the YouTube Web site and will be his first signing of his new record label "Tennman Records."