BY BUSHRA DORRAT Youtube The art of video

YouTube in a few points History Success Youtube Today Net Worth

History of youtube The history of YouTube began when Paypal employees created a video sharing website where users could upload, share and view videos. The Internet domain name "www.youtube.com" was activated on Monday, February 14, 2005. It was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. The first YouTube video, titled “Me at the zoo”, was uploaded on April 23, 2005. MORE ON THIS

Success of youtube MORE ON THIS During the summer of 2006, YouTube was one of the fastest growing sites on the World Wide Web, hosting more than 65,000 new video uploads. site delivered an average of 100 million video views per day in July. The website averaged nearly 20 million visitors per month according to Nielson Ratings. 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. MORE ON THIS

Youtube Today As the world's largest video platform, YouTube has had impact in many fields, with some individual YouTube videos having directly shaped world events. Education and proliferation of knowledge Spurring innovation through distributed communities Broadening awareness of social issues MORE ON THIS

Youtube’s net worth Analyst Justin Post wrote a note this week saying that YouTube, the popular video streaming site bought by Google in 2006, is worth about $70 billion on its own. That's a higher value than all but 66 of the companies listed on the S&P 500, according to Bloomberg.

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