History of YouTube

YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries.

YouTube logo

YouTube allows users to upload videos, view them, rate them with likes and dislikes, share them, add videos to playlists, report, make comments on videos, and subscribe to other users. It offers a wide variety of user-generated and corporate media videos. Available content includes video clips, TV show clips, music videos, short and documentary films, audio recordings, movie trailers, live streams, and other content such as video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos.

As of February 2017, there were more than 400 hours of content uploaded to YouTube each minute, and one billion hours of content being watched on YouTube every day. As of October 2020, YouTube is the second-most popular website in the world, behind Google, according to Alexa Internet.[1] As of May 2019, more than 500 hours of video content are uploaded to YouTube every minute.[2] Based on reported quarterly advertising revenue, YouTube is estimated to have US$15 billion in annual revenues.

YouTube has faced criticism over aspects of its operations, including its handling of copyrighted content contained within uploaded videos,[3] its recommendation algorithms perpetuating videos that promote conspiracy theories and falsehoods,[4] hosting videos ostensibly targeting children but containing violent or sexually suggestive content involving popular characters,[5] videos of minors attracting pedophilic activities in their comment sections,[6] and fluctuating policies on the types of content that is eligible to be monetized with advertising.[3]

Founding (2005)
From left to right: Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim.

YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, when they worked for PayPal.[7] Prior to working for PayPal, Hurley studied design at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania; Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[8] YouTube's initial headquarters was above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California.[9]

Approximate representation of the site as it appeared a few months after its launch (archived by the Wayback Machine).[10]


The domain name "YouTube.com" was activated on February 14, 2005 with video upload options being integrated on April 23, 2005 after being named "Tune In, Hook Up" the original idea of Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. The concept was an online dating service that ultimately failed but had an exceptional video and uploading platform.[11] After the infamous Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson Halftime show incident, the three creators realized they couldn't find any videos of it on the internet, after noticing that this type of platform did not exist they made the changes to become the first major video sharing platform.[12] The idea of the new company was for non-computer experts to be able to use a simple interface that allowed the user to publish, upload and view streaming videos through standard web browsers and modern internet speeds. Ultimately, creating an easy to use video streaming platform that wouldn't stress out the new internet users of the early 2000s.[13] The first YouTube video, titled Me at the zoo, was uploaded on April 23, 2005, and shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo and currently has over 120 million views and almost 5 million likes.[14][15] Hurley was behind more of the looks of the website, he used his art skills to create the logo and designed the look of the website.[16] Chen made sure the page actually worked and that there would be no issues with the uploading and playback process. Karim was a programmer and helped in making sure the initial website got put together properly and helped in both design and programming.[16]

YouTube began as an angel-funded enterprise working from a makeshift office in a garage. In November 2005, venture firm Sequoia Capital invested an initial $3.5 million,[17] and Roelof Botha (a partner of the firm and former CFO of PayPal) joined the YouTube board of directors. In April 2006, Sequoia and Artis Capital Management invested an additional $8 million in the company, which had experienced significant growth in its first few months.[18]

Growth (2006)
Timeline of events
2005July – Video HTML embedding
July – Top videos page
August – 5-star rating system
October – Playlists
October – Full-screen view
October – Subscriptions
2006January – Groups function
February – Personalized profiles
March – 10-minute video limit
April – Directors function
May – Video responses
May – Cell phone uploading
June – Further personalized profiles
June – Viewing history
2007June – Local language versions
2008March – 480p videos
March – Video analytics tool
December – Audioswap
2009January – Google Videos uploading halted
July – 720p videos
November – 1080p videos
December – Automatic speech recognition
December – Vevo launch
2010March – "Thumbs" rating system
July – 4K video
2011November – YouTube Analytics
November – Feature film rental
2012June – Merger with Google Video
2013
2014October – 60 fps videos
2015March – 360° videos
November – YouTube Red launches
2016February – YouTube subscription service
2017
2018
2019October - Two ads appear

After opening on a beta service in May 2005 YouTube.com was trafficking around 30,000 viewers a day in just months of time. After launching six months later they would be hosting well over two million viewers a day on the website. By March 2006 the site had more than 25 million videos uploaded and was generating around 20,000 uploads a day.[19] During the summer of 2006, YouTube was one of the fastest growing sites on the World Wide Web,[20] hosting more than 65,000 new video uploads. The site delivered an average of 100 million video views per day in July.[21] However, this did not come without any problems, the rapid growth in users meant YouTube had to keep up with it technologically speaking, they needed new equipment to match the views and users they were bringing in and they needed more broadband connection to the internet. The increasing copyright infringement problems and lack in commercializing YouTube eventually led to outsourcing to Google who recently had just failed in their own video platform.[19] It was ranked the fifth-most-popular website on Alexa, far out-pacing even MySpace's rate of growth.[22] The website averaged nearly 20 million visitors per month according to Nielsen/NetRatings,[21] with around 44% female and 56% male visitors. The 12- to 17-year-old age group was dominant.[23] YouTube's pre-eminence in the online market was substantial. According to the website Hitwise.com, YouTube commanded up to 64% of the UK online video market.[24]

YouTube entered into a marketing and advertising partnership with NBC in June 2006.[25]

Purchase by Google (2006)

On October 9, 2006, it was announced that the company would be purchased by Google for US$1.65 billion in stock, which was completed on November 13. At that time it was Google's second-largest acquisition.[26] This kickstarted YouTube's rise to becoming a global media dominator, creating a multi-billion dollar business that has surpassed most television stations and other media markets, sparking success for many YouTubers.[13] The agreement between Google and YouTube came after YouTube presented three agreements with media companies in an attempt to avoid copyright-infringement lawsuits. YouTube planned to continue operating independently, with its co-founders and 68 employees working within Google.[27] Viral videos were the main factor for YouTube's growth in the beginning of its early days with Google, for example Evolution of Dance, Charlie Bit My Finger, David After the Dentist, and more viral videos.[28]

Google's February 7, 2007 SEC filing revealed the breakdown of profits for YouTube's investors after the sale to Google. In 2010, Chad Hurley's profit was more than $395 million while Steve Chen's profit was more than $326 million.[29]

Person of the year (2006)

In 2006, Time Magazine featured a YouTube screen with a large mirror as its annual 'Time Person Of The Year'. It cited user-created media such as that posted on YouTube and featured the site's originators along with several content creators. The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times also reviewed posted content on YouTube in 2006, with particular regard to its effects on corporate communications and recruitment. PC World Magazine named YouTube the ninth of its Top 10 Best Products of 2006.[30] In 2007, both Sports Illustrated and Dime Magazine featured positive reviews of a basketball highlight video titled, The Ultimate Pistol Pete Maravich MIX.[31]

Continued growth (2007–present)
YouTube's current headquarters in San Bruno, California (2010 to present)

It is estimated that in 2007, YouTube consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000.[32]

Originating in 2007, the YouTube Awards are annual awards given out in recognition of the best YouTube videos of the preceding year as voted by the YouTube community.[33]

On July 23, 2007 and November 28, 2007, CNN and YouTube produced televised presidential debates in which Democratic and Republican US presidential hopefuls fielded questions submitted through YouTube.[34][35]

In November 2008, YouTube reached an agreement with MGM, Lions Gate Entertainment, and CBS, allowing the companies to post full-length films and television episodes on the site, accompanied by advertisements in a section for US viewers called "Shows". The move was intended to create competition with websites such as Hulu, which features material from NBC, Fox, and Disney.[36][37]

YouTube was awarded a 2008 Peabody Award and cited as being "a 'Speakers' Corner' that both embodies and promotes democracy".[38][39]

In early 2009, YouTube registered the domain www.youtube-nocookie.com for videos embedded on United States federal government websites.[40][41] In November of the same year, YouTube launched a version of "Shows" available to UK viewers, offering around 4,000 full-length shows from more than 60 partners.[42]

Entertainment Weekly placed YouTube on its end-of-the-decade "best-of" list In December 2009, describing it as: "Providing a safe home for piano-playing cats, celeb goof-ups, and overzealous lip-synchers since 2005."[43]

In January 2010,[44] YouTube introduced an online film rentals service which is currently available only to users in the US, Canada and the UK.[45][46] The service offers over 6,000 films.[47] In March 2010 YouTube began free streaming of certain content, including 60 cricket matches of the Indian Premier League. According to YouTube, this was the first worldwide free online broadcast of a major sporting event.[48]

On March 31, 2010, YouTube launched a new design with the aim of simplifying the interface and increasing the time users spend on the site. Google product manager Shiva Rajaraman commented: "We really felt like we needed to step back and remove the clutter."[49] In May 2010, it was reported that YouTube was serving more than two billion videos a day, which was "nearly double the prime-time audience of all three major US television networks combined".[50] In May 2011, YouTube reported on the company blog that the site was receiving more than three billion views per day.[51] In January 2012, YouTube stated that the figure had increased to four billion videos streamed per day.[52]

According to May 2010 data published by market research company comScore, YouTube was the dominant provider of online video in the United States, with a market share of roughly 43 percent and more than 14 billion videos viewed during May.[53]

In October 2010, Hurley announced that he would be stepping down as the chief executive officer of YouTube to take an advisory role, with Salar Kamangar taking over as the head of the company.[54]

James Zern, a YouTube software engineer, revealed in April 2011 that 30 percent of videos accounted for 99 percent of views on the site.[55]

During November 2011, the Google+ social networking site was integrated directly with YouTube and the Chrome web browser, allowing YouTube videos to be viewed from within the Google+ interface.[56] In December 2011, YouTube launched a new version of the site interface, with the video channels displayed in a central column on the home page, similar to the news feeds of social networking sites.[57] At the same time, a new version of the YouTube logo was introduced with a darker shade of red, which was the first change in design since October 2006.[58]

In 2012, YouTube said that roughly 60 hours of new videos are uploaded to the site every minute, and that around three-quarters of the material comes from outside the U.S.[51][52][59] The site has eight hundred million unique users a month.[60]

Starting from 2010 and continuing to the present, Alexa ranked YouTube as the third most visited website on the Internet after Google and Facebook.[61]

In late 2011 and early 2012, YouTube launched over 100 "premium" or "original" channels. It was reported the initiative cost $100 million.[62] Two years later, in November 2013, it was documented that the landing page of the original channels became a 404 error page.[63][64] Despite this, original channels such as SourceFed and Crash Course were able to become successful.[65][66]

An algorithm change was made in 2012 that replaced the view-based system for a watch time-based one that is credited for causing a surge in the popularity of gaming channels.[67]

In October 2012, for the first-time ever, YouTube offered a live stream of the U.S. presidential debate and partnered with ABC News to do so.[68]

On October 25, 2012 (2012-10-25), The YouTube slogan (Broadcast Yourself) was taken down due to the live stream of the U.S. presidential debate.

YouTube relaunched its design and layout on December 4, 2012 to be very similar to the mobile and tablet app version of the site. On December 21, 2012, Gangnam Style became the first YouTube video to surpass one billion views.[69]

In March 2013, the number of unique users visiting YouTube every month reached 1 billion.[70] In the same year, YouTube continued to reach out to mainstream media, launching YouTube Comedy Week and the YouTube Music Awards.[71][72] Both events were met with negative to mixed reception.[73][74][75][76] In November 2013, YouTube's own YouTube channel had surpassed Felix Kjellberg's PewDiePie channel to become the most subscribed channel on the website. This was due to auto-suggesting new users to subscribe to the channel upon registration.[77]

On April 3, 2018, a shooting took place at YouTube headquarters.[78]

In November 2019, YouTube has announced that the service would phase out the classic version of YouTube Studio to all YouTube creators by the spring of 2020.[79] It was available and accessible to some YouTube creators by the end of March 2020.[80]

In June 2020, YouTube phased out the ability to use categories.

Creators

The creation of YouTube has allowed for a brand new job archetype to emerge from the media platform, being a YouTuber. The role has evolved from its early days and has become something totally different than it originally was. In the beginnings of YouTube, the creators did not do everything for the money, because generally there was none, today wealth is directly associated with the title. Before everything on YouTube was overrun with ads, monetization and loud teenagers the content creators did it for the publicity and love of creating videos. In the early days of the video platform popularity and payment was determined by the amount of subscribers a channel had, today things are judged by the average views a video gets and that determines the amount of money a person can make.[81] The earliest pioneers of YouTube, many of whom have now fizzled out, were Ray William Johnson, FRED, Smosh, NigaHiga, Mail Order Comedy, BroadCity and too many more to list.[82] Almost 3,000 YouTube channels today have a million subscribers, nearly 25,000 have more 100,000 subscribers, and on average four channels get to a million subscribers every single day.[83] YouTube is no longer a simple website for the average internet user, it is now a necessary item for people to maintain their daily dose information, and is even a means of starting a prosperous career.

Internationalization

On June 19, 2007, Google CEO Eric Schmidt was in Paris to launch the new localization system.[84] The interface of the website is available with localized versions in 89 countries, one territory (Hong Kong) and a worldwide version.[85]

Countries with YouTube Localization
Country Language(s) Launch date Notes
 USA (and worldwide launch) English February 15, 2005[84] First location
 Brazil Portuguese June 19, 2007[84] First international location
 France French, and Basque June 19, 2007[84]
 Ireland English June 19, 2007[84]
 Italy Italian June 19, 2007[84]
 Japan Japanese June 19, 2007[84]
 Netherlands Dutch June 19, 2007[84]
 Poland Polish June 19, 2007[84]
 Spain Spanish, Galician, Catalan, and Basque June 19, 2007[84]
 United Kingdom English June 19, 2007[84] Expansion continues
 Mexico Spanish October 11, 2007[86]
 Hong Kong Chinese, and English October 17, 2007[87] Blocked in China
 Taiwan Chinese October 18, 2007[88]
 Australia English October 22, 2007[89]
 New Zealand English October 22, 2007[89]
 Canada French, and English November 6, 2007[90]
 Germany German November 8, 2007[91]
 Russia Russian November 13, 2007[92]
 South Korea Korean January 23, 2008[93] First launch in 2008
 India Hindi, Bengali, English, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu May 7, 2008[94]
 Israel Hebrew September 16, 2008 First Middle East location
 Czech Republic Czech October 9, 2008[95]
 Sweden Swedish October 22, 2008[96] Location never launched in 2009
 South Africa Afrikaans, Zulu, and English May 17, 2010[84] First African location
 Argentina Spanish September 8, 2010[97]
 Algeria French, and Arabic March 9, 2011[98] One of the first Arab World locations
 Egypt Arabic March 9, 2011[98]
 Jordan Arabic March 9, 2011[98]
 Morocco French, and Arabic March 9, 2011[98]
 Saudi Arabia Arabic March 9, 2011[98]
 Tunisia French, and Arabic March 9, 2011[98]
 Yemen Arabic March 9, 2011[98]
 Kenya Swahili, and English September 1, 2011[99]
 Philippines Filipino, and English October 13, 2011[100]
 Singapore English, Malay, Chinese, and Tamil October 20, 2011[101]
 Belgium French, Dutch, and German November 16, 2011[84] Middle location
 Colombia Spanish November 30, 2011[102]
 Uganda English December 2, 2011[103] Needs a Swahili edition for the country
 Nigeria English December 7, 2011[104]
 Chile Spanish January 20, 2012[105] First location in 2012
 Hungary Hungarian February 29, 2012[106]
 Malaysia Malay, and English March 22, 2012[107]
 Peru Spanish March 25, 2012[108]
 United Arab Emirates Arabic, and English April 1, 2012[109]
 Greece Greek May 1, 2012
 Indonesia Indonesian, and English May 17, 2012[110]
 Ghana English June 5, 2012[111]
 Senegal French, and English July 4, 2012[112]
 Turkey Turkish October 1, 2012[113]
 Ukraine Ukrainian December 13, 2012[114]
 Denmark Danish February 1, 2013[115]
 Finland Finnish, and Swedish February 1, 2013[116]
 Norway Norwegian February 1, 2013[117]
  Switzerland German, French, and Italian March 29, 2013[118]
 Austria German March 29, 2013[119] Long-waited launch
 Romania Romanian April 18, 2013[120]
 Portugal Portuguese April 25, 2013[121] Long-waited launch
 Slovakia Slovak April 25, 2013[122]
 Bahrain Arabic August 16, 2013[123] Multiple Middle East locations launched
 Kuwait Arabic August 16, 2013[123]
 Oman Arabic August 16, 2013[123]
 Qatar Arabic August 16, 2013[123]
 Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian March 17, 2014
 Bulgaria Bulgarian March 17, 2014[124]
 Croatia Croatian March 17, 2014[125]
 Estonia Estonian March 17, 2014[126]
 Latvia Latvian March 17, 2014[127]
 Lithuania Lithuanian March 17, 2014 Baltic area fully locally accessible
 Macedonia Macedonian, Serbian, and Turkish March 17, 2014
 Montenegro Serbian, and Croatian March 17, 2014
 Serbia Serbian March 17, 2014
 Slovenia Slovenian March 17, 2014[128]
 Thailand Thai April 1, 2014[129]
 Lebanon Arabic May 1, 2014[123]
 Puerto Rico Spanish, and English August 23, 2014 Use Spain version or USA version before launch.
 Iceland Icelandic ?, 2014
 Luxembourg French, and German ?, 2014
 Vietnam Vietnamese October 1, 2014 First contemporary communist location
 Libya Arabic February 1, 2015 Blocked in 2010, but unblocked in 2011.
 Tanzania Swahili, and English June 2, 2015
 Zimbabwe English June 2, 2015
 Azerbaijan Azerbaijani October 12, 2015[130]
 Belarus Russian October 12, 2015[130]
 Georgia Georgian October 12, 2015[130]
 Kazakhstan Kazakh October 12, 2015[130]
 Iraq Arabic November 9, 2015
   Nepal Nepali January 12, 2016[131]
 Pakistan Urdu, and English January 12, 2016[132] Blocked in 2012 but unblocked in 2015
 Sri Lanka Sinhala, and Tamil January 12, 2016[133]
 Jamaica English August 4, 2016
 Malta English June 24, 2018
 Bolivia Spanish January 30, 2019
 Costa Rica Spanish January 30, 2019
 Ecuador Spanish January 30, 2019
 El Salvador Spanish January 30, 2019
 Guatemala Spanish January 30, 2019
 Honduras Spanish January 30, 2019
 Nicaragua Spanish January 30, 2019
 Panama Spanish January 30, 2019
 Uruguay Spanish January 30, 2019
 Paraguay Spanish and Guarani February 21, 2019
 Dominican Republic Spanish February 21, 2019
 Cyprus Greek and Turkish March 13, 2019 Last European Union location
 Liechtenstein German March 13, 2019

Google aims to compete with local video-sharing websites like Dailymotion in France. It also made an agreement with local television stations like M6 and France Télévisions to legally broadcast video content.

On October 17, 2007, it was announced that a Hong Kong version had been launched. YouTube's Steve Chen said its next target will be Taiwan.[134][135]

YouTube was blocked from Mainland China from October 18 due to the censorship of the Taiwanese flag.[136] URLs to YouTube were redirected to China's own search engine, Baidu. It was subsequently unblocked on October 31.[137]

The YouTube interface suggests which local version should be chosen on the basis of the IP address of the user. In some cases, the message "This video is not available in your country" may appear because of copyright restrictions or inappropriate content.[138] The interface of the YouTube website is available in 76 language versions, including Amharic, Albanian, Armenian, Bengali, Burmese, Khmer, Kyrgyz, Laotian, Mongolian, Persian and Uzbek, which do not have local channel versions.[139] Access to YouTube was blocked in Turkey between 2008 and 2010, following controversy over the posting of videos deemed insulting to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and some material offensive to Muslims.[140][141] In October 2012, a local version of YouTube was launched in Turkey, with the domain youtube.com.tr. The local version is subject to the content regulations found in Turkish law.[142] In March 2009, a dispute between YouTube and the British royalty collection agency PRS for Music led to premium music videos being blocked for YouTube users in the United Kingdom. The removal of videos posted by the major record companies occurred after failure to reach agreement on a licensing deal. The dispute was resolved in September 2009.[143] In April 2009, a similar dispute led to the removal of premium music videos for users in Germany.[144]

Business model, advertising, and profits
YouTube's headquarters in San Bruno from 2006 to 2010
YouTube's early headquarters in San Mateo

Before being purchased by Google, YouTube declared that its business model was advertisement-based, making 15 million dollars per month.

Google did not provide detailed figures for YouTube's running costs, and YouTube's revenues in 2007 were noted as "not material" in a regulatory filing.[145] In June 2008, a Forbes magazine article projected the 2008 revenue at $200 million, noting progress in advertising sales.[146]

Some industry commentators have speculated that YouTube's running costs (specifically the network bandwidth required) might be as high as 5 to 6 million dollars per month,[147] thereby fuelling criticisms that the company, like many Internet startups, did not have a viably implemented business model. Advertisements were launched on the site beginning in March 2006. In April, YouTube started using Google AdSense.[148] YouTube subsequently stopped using AdSense but has resumed in local regions.

Advertising is YouTube's central mechanism for gaining revenue. This issue has also been taken up in scientific analysis. Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams argue in their book Wikinomics that YouTube is an example for an economy that is based on mass collaboration and makes use of the Internet.

"Whether your business is closer to Boeing or P&G, or more like YouTube or flickr, there are vast pools of external talent that you can tap with the right approach. Companies that adopt these models can drive important changes in their industries and rewrite the rules of competition"[149]:270 "new business models for open content will not come from traditional media establishments, but from companies such as Google, Yahoo, and YouTube. This new generation of companies is not burned by the legacies that inhibit the publishing incumbents, so they can be much more agile in responding to customer demands. More important, they understand that you don't need to control the quantity and destiny of bits if they can provide compelling venues in which people build communities around sharing and remixing content. Free content is just the lure on which they layer revenue from advertising and premium services".[149]:271sq

Tapscott and Williams argue that it is important for new media companies to find ways to make a profit with the help of peer-produced content. The new Internet economy, (that they term Wikinomics) would be based on the principles of "openness, peering, sharing, and acting globally". Companies could make use of these principles in order to gain profit with the help of Web 2.0 applications: "Companies can design and assemble products with their customers, and in some cases customers can do the majority of the value creation".[149]:289sq Tapscott and Williams argue that the outcome will be an economic democracy.

There are other views in the debate that agree with Tapscott and Williams that it is increasingly based on harnessing open source/content, networking, sharing, and peering, but they argue that the result is not an economic democracy, but a subtle form and deepening of exploitation, in which labour costs are reduced by Internet-based global outsourcing.

The second view is e.g. taken by Christian Fuchs in his book "Internet and Society". He argues that YouTube is an example of a business model that is based on combining the gift with the commodity. The first is free, the second yields profit. The novel aspect of this business strategy is that it combines what seems at first to be different, the gift and the commodity. YouTube would give free access to its users, the more users, the more profit it can potentially make because it can in principle increase advertisement rates and will gain further interest of advertisers.[150] YouTube would sell its audience that it gains by free access to its advertising customers.[150]:181

"Commodified Internet spaces are always profit-oriented, but the goods they provide are not necessarily exchange-value and market-oriented; in some cases (such as Google, Yahoo, MySpace, YouTube, Netscape), free goods or platforms are provided as gifts in order to drive up the number of users so that high advertisement rates can be charged in order to achieve profit."[150]:181

In June 2009, BusinessWeek reported that, according to San Francisco-based IT consulting company RampRate, YouTube was far closer to profitability than previous reports, including the April 2009, projection by investment bank Credit Suisse estimating YouTube would lose as much as $470 million in 2009.[151] RampRate's report pegged that number at no more than $174 million.[152]

In May 2013, YouTube launched a pilot program to begin offering some content providers the ability to charge $0.99 per month or more for certain channels, but the vast majority of its videos would remain free to view.[153][154]

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