YouTube Development From 2005 To 2020
An Introduction
YouTube is a website for sharing videos on the Internet by uploading video by users who own YouTube channels, where those videos can be viewed and downloaded anywhere in the world. YouTube users watch over a billion hours of YouTube video every day, and upload more than 100 hours of videos every minute.
YouTube was created as a small video-sharing social platform in 2005 by three young men, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. It is worth noting that the first video uploaded to YouTube by one of the three, Jawed Karim, was at the San Diego Zoo the video is titled "Me at the zoo", in which he talks about elephants, as he claims, surprised by their long trunks, and it is the only video in the channel, which has so far achieved nearly 2 million subscribers.
Just one year after the launch of YouTube, and in 2006, Google purchased YouTube for 1.65 billion US dollars, and since then YouTube has evolved from a small site to upload videos to a powerful influential force affecting the cultures of peoples around the world and Internet trends, creating millions of celebrities around the world. Over the years, Google has developed YouTube from a simple video site on the web to include mobile phone applications and television networks and allow other services such as Nintendo and Discord to access YouTube, and users can not only watch simple videos on YouTube, but also listen to music videos and recordings, audio, short films, documentaries and trailers sponsored by production companies and live broadcasts to radio and television stations around the world, as well as the ability for any user to create a YouTube channel for free to download his videos.
Due to the power of YouTube and its huge number of users, well-established advertising companies such as Disney, WarnerMedia and others have created their own YouTube channels to promote their content to a larger audience and make their own publicity. Besides all this, YouTube basically acts as a social network by allowing users with a Google account to watch, like, comment and share videos on other social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc., and they can create their own playlists of available videos on YouTube and subscribing to the channels whose content they prefer or are interested in.
YouTube is the most visited website after Google, with more than one billion monthly users, so Google has changed its business model of YouTube to include revenue other than AdSense ads, as YouTube's revenue has expanded to include revenue that comes through paid content on YouTube by subscribing to YouTube Premium, and YouTube channel owners can make a profit partnership with YouTube through advertising revenue and the paid share of the videos watched by YouTube Premium subscribers.
Also due to the power of YouTube and its massive audience, it has also become embroiled in many global controversies that have made headlines including YouTube's self-censorship, alleged nepotism for some of the companies that use YouTube, users' posting of certain videos related to conspiracy theories, and the judiciary related to the safety and security of children.
The evolution of YouTube over the years: Notable events in the history of YouTube
February 2005: Chad Hurley registers the YouTube trademark, logo and domain for Valentine's Day.
April 2006: The first YouTube video of Jawad Karim was uploaded and it was titled "Me at the zoo" with good quality and a fairly clear picture.
May 2005: YouTube beta was launched.
July 2005: HTML video embedding is added to the site for the first time.
August 2005: Five-star rating system added to YouTube.
October 2005: Added YouTube playlist functionality to YouTube to become an important and essential part of the platform for creators and YouTube users.
December 2005: YouTube official launch and out of beta status
January 2006: Groups feature added to YouTube.
February 2006: Added user profile customization.
March 2006: Nike's ad for Brazilian player Ronaldinho becomes the first video to reach 1 million views on YouTube, and a full-screen and subscribe functionality are added below the video.
March 2006: YouTube limits uploads to 10 minutes.
May 2006: Allowing comments on videos for the first time, in the same month including mobile video uploading functionality.
June 2006: YouTube makes a deal with NBC to remove some of its footage under copyright infringement laws, and YouTube sets up a content verification program to help prevent a similar problem in the future. Later that year, NBC allowed YouTube to promote its clips on its platform.
May 2007: Launch of the YouTube Partner Program to enable creators to earn money through the videos they upload to the site. And this month, a kid named Charlie broke into the internet in a viral 59-second video that shows Charlie biting his brother's finger, and the family that uploaded the video to YouTube reportedly earned $100,000 from it.
June 2007: YouTube allows the use of other languages on its site for the first time.
July 2007: YouTube partners with CNN to host the first presidential debate
August 2007: Google enables ads on the YouTube platform for the first time to start making money from the YouTube acquisition, using semi-transparent banners that appear at the bottom of videos overlaid with content for a duration of 10-15 seconds.
March 2008: YouTube allows support for 480p videos, and video analytics is added to the site.
December 2008: YouTube adds audio changer software, which enables creators to add music to their videos from YouTube's licensed music library.
January 2009: The US Congress launched its official YouTube channel, which enabled US citizens to have unprecedented access to current events in the US Congress. In the same month, the Vatican launched its official channel.
April 2009: YouTube wins the Peabody Award for Outstanding Achievement in Electronic Media.
November 2009: YouTube allows 1080p videos to be uploaded on its platform.
December 2009: YouTube launches its own automatic speech recognition service.
January 2010: YouTube launches feature-length movie rentals on its platform (right to view for a while), a bold move by YouTube to challenge the dominance of Netflix and Apple.
March 2010: YouTube adds omnipresent thumbs up.
July 2010: YouTube allows 4k videos to be uploaded for the first time on its platform.
December 2010: YouTube plays a pivotal role in covering the events of the Arab Spring, as activists from all over the Islamic world used YouTube to spread messages of hope and defiance to accelerate and succeed the Arab Spring movement.
April 2011: YouTube launches YouTube Live for the first time, allowing creators and public organizations to broadcast live content on YouTube, including concerts, sporting events, weddings, and more.
November 2011: YouTube launches YouTube Analytics, which allows creators to intelligently track their channel's performance and know who views their videos by gender, age, traffic sources, geographic regions, quality of ads, etc., which enables them to know the most popular videos to target more effective strategies to determine more income.
June 2012: YouTube merges with Google Video.
July 2012: The Olympic Games are broadcast live for the first time.
October 2012: YouTube partners with ABC to broadcast a presidential debate live for the first time.
December 2012: The first video to get 1 billion views is Gangnam Style.
March 2013: YouTube hits 1 billion new visitors every month.
2014: YouTube announced a subscription service known as "Music Key," which combined ad-free streaming of YouTube music content with existing Google Play Music service. The service continued to evolve in 2015, when YouTube announced YouTube Red
February 2014: Susan Wojcicki is appointed CEO of YouTube
2015: YouTube released a mobile app known as YouTube Kids that is designed to provide an enhanced experience for children, featuring a simple user interface, curated selection of channels that offer age-appropriate content, and parental control features. In the same year, YouTube also launched what is known as YouTube Gaming, an app A vertically oriented video game and live streaming app, this app aims to compete with Amazon-owned Twitch.
November 2015: YouTube Red launched, now called YouTube Premium, a paid service for YouTube viewers who want access to ad-free content.
January 2016: Adele's "Hello" video becomes the fastest video to reach 1 billion views in just 88 days.
January 2016: YouTube expands its San Bruno headquarters by purchasing an office complex for $215 million. The complex has an area of 51,468 square meters and can accommodate 2,800 employees.
February 2016: YouTube launches YouTube Premium to replace YouTube Red.
April 2018: A shooting took place at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California. The shooter was identified later that year as Nasim Najafi Aghdam, who entered the building from an outdoor parking garage and injured three people before being shot. commits suicide.
October 2019: YouTube launches “Two Ads” feature for the first time, by adding two YouTube video ads, one of which is non-skippable, the creator is given a payment from those ads.
November 2019: Google announces that it will gradually phase out the classic version of YouTube for all creators by March 2020.
And during the COVID-19 pandemic, when most of the world was subject to stay-at-home orders, use of services like YouTube grew exponentially. One data company estimated that YouTube was 15% of all internet traffic, double the pre-pandemic level.
Following a 2018 complaint about COPPA violations, the company was fined $170 million by the Federal Trade Commission for collecting personal information from minors under the age of 13, and YouTube was ordered to create regulations to increase children's privacy. After criticism of its implementation of these regulations, YouTube began treating all videos labeled "made for children" under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
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