YouTube
History
- Founded in 2005 by 3 employees of PayPal.
- In 2006 the website averaged 20 million visitors per month.
- In October 2006 Google bought YouTube for 1.65 billion dollars in stock.
- In 2014 300 hours of new videos were uploaded to the site every minute, this is three times more than one year earlier.
What is it?
- YouTube is a video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States.
- Upload videos.
- Subscribe to other users for updates and easy access to find videos you enjoy.
- Like or dislike videos.
- Comment suggestions and opinions on videos.
Interesting Facts
- Many people such as Justin Bieber, Bethany Motta, Tyler Oakley and many others have become famous by uploading very diverse videos.
- Many gamers use YouTube to find cheats for games.
- On April 23 2005 Me at the zoo was the first video ever uploaded onYouTube!