We have all undoubtedly used the YouTube site many times. If you were born in the sixties, you must remember what a huge revolution the emergence of YouTube created in the world of the Internet and what a commotion it caused. There is hardly anyone who is an Internet user and does not visit YouTube during the day. Today, YouTube is an undeniable part of our daily lives.
But have you ever wondered where YouTube started and who was behind its invention and design? If you haven't asked yourself this question until now, you're probably interested in knowing where YouTube started and how it has become the second most powerful and popular website in the world.
Today, we want to follow this story with you to get to the beginning and get to know the founders of YouTube. Reading the story of the beginning of one of the most successful ideas in history must be very interesting and inspiring for YouTube users and YouTubers alike. So stay with us as we go to the beginning of the YouTube story.
Dream Team
Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Javed Karim were the three founders of YouTube. Chad Hurley was studying design at Indiana University in Pennsylvania, and Steve Chen and Javed Karim were computer engineering students at the University of Illinois at Urbana. The three friends and partners worked at Paypal. The idea of starting a website for photos was their first joint venture into the web. For this purpose, they designed the Flickr site, which was a photo sharing service and met with an unprecedented reception. After the success of this website, they thought of creating another website specifically for videos. This led to the idea and plan to form YouTube.
After the initial steps and website design, they decided to launch YouTube with the $11,500,000 capital they had. So on April 23, 2005, Javed Karim recorded the first video at the San Diego Zoo. This video by Javed Karim, one of the founders and partners, is the first video uploaded to YouTube. This video is still available and you can watch it. In May of that year, the public version of YouTube was released, and in November 2005, 6 months after the public version, YouTube officially started operating.
YouTube's remarkable success began just a year later. By July 2006, almost a year after the first video was uploaded and the website launched, 65,000 videos were being uploaded to YouTube every day and 100 million views were being received, an astonishing number considering the speed of growth.
Another story that has been told many times about the formation of YouTube is the 2004 tsunami and the Super Bowl in the same year. These two very important events in this year gave rise to the idea of Javed Karim and his colleagues to upload a site that could be used to view and watch trending videos. Before YouTube, there was no such site to view and visit the world's viral and trending videos. Therefore, the lack and emptiness of this issue was another motivation that helped the creative and innovative team of YouTube to create such an effective and versatile site.
The group's first office was located above a pizza parlor in California. After they launched a beta test of the website in 2005, they achieved great success in November of that year. A video of Ronaldinho reached one million views, which was a significant achievement for the team. Since its inception, YouTube has accounted for almost 50% of all video views on the Internet, especially in the United States.
But this successful and innovative team also faced many problems on the way to their success. One of their biggest problems came when naming YouTube. Before YouTube, there was a site called Utube.com, which many users initially visited instead of visiting Youtube, and the site's traffic suddenly increased dramatically. For this reason, the owner of this site sued YouTube for similar names and after a while changed the site's address to utubeonline.com. The deal and lawsuit between the parties to this lawsuit ended in 2006.
YouTube success story
After going through these stages and passing about 18 years since its inception, YouTube has become one of the giants of the Internet. These days, we use YouTube for almost everything. We refer to this site for education, entertainment, business, advertising, marketing, and also for direct income. These days, it is almost one of the pillars of marketing and advertising businesses, advertising and investing in marketing on YouTube.
Also, a large part of the content production and people who make videos on this platform, who are also called YouTubers, happen on YouTube. There is a unique opportunity to earn money from YouTube by producing creative and innovative content on this platform. Anyone with any ability and facilities can earn money by opening a channel on YouTube by creating your own content. YouTube pays you money in exchange for certain conditions, the most important of which is having at least 4,000 hours of watch time and 1,000 subscribers in the past year of your activity on this platform. In addition, YouTubers also earn a good income from various other methods, such as YouTube sponsored advertisements .
Since its inception, YouTube has captured the attention of people around the world and opened new doors of creativity and innovation for others, and it continues to do so with great strength. YouTube is now the most visited website in the world after Google.
