YouTube an American online video sharing platform headquartered in California is the world’s biggest video streaming platform, it was founded 15 years ago on Feb 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. Later on, Karim and cofounders sold it for $1.65 billion to Google.
Almost 15 years ago the first video of YouTube was uploaded by the cofounder of YouTube Jawed Karim. The first video uploaded was simple and short and it was just 18 seconds long. Till now it has been watched 90 million times.
These were just the starting days for YouTube and in the last 15 years, it has changed a lot. It has changed the life of a lot of professional actors, artists, musicians, and vloggers, who share their work and monetize their videos to earn money from YouTube.
The most famous song Despacito is the most popular video on YouTube and it has hit more than 6.7 billion views as of April 2020. Overall, one billion hours of content is watched daily on YouTube. As per the statistics of YouTube, it has more than 2 billion users visit each month. YouTube also provides profit to its content creators, they can earn money via ads on their videos.
YouTube has been generating a lot of money due to its ads and just last year, YouTube Generated a whopping $ 15 billion dollars, which is a huge amount when compared with money generated by Facebook and Amazon. There’s has been also an increase of 36.5 % in Revenue of YouTube.
Looking at the size of YouTube now, It is so interesting to see how all it started with just an 18 second video.
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