Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal. • YouTube offered the public a beta test of the site in May 2005. The site grew rapidly, and in July 2006 the company announced that more than 65,000 new videos were being uploaded every day, and that the site was receiving 100 million video views per day • In October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion in Google stock
day people watch hundreds of millions of hours on YouTube and generate billions of views • The number of hours people are watching on YouTube each month is up 50% year over year • 300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute • ~60% of a creator’s views comes from outside their home country • YouTube is localized in 75 countries and available in 61 languages • Half of YouTube views are on mobile devices • Mobile revenue on YouTube is up over 100% year on year
the majority of which are small businesses More than a million channels in dozens of countries are earning revenue from the YouTube Partner Program, and thousands of channels are making six figures per year Top YouTube creators were found to be more popular than mainstream celebrities among U.S. teenagers
24 with 13 of them working full time and 11 as consultants in Mumbai and Delhi. • Arunabh Kumar • Biswapathi Sarkar • Amit Golani The Viral Fever Media Labs was founded by Arunabh Kumar an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur in 2010. First Indian Channel on YouTube to gain 1 Million Subscribers! The Viral Fever
government, such as in the YouTube presidential debates in which ordinary people submitted questions to U.S. presidential candidates via YouTube. • Conversely, YouTube has also allowed government to more easily engage with citizens. PMO India’s official YouTube channel providing recordings of Prime Minister Modi’s ‘Mann Ki Baat’, where he freely addresses the people of the nation.
in which citizen eyewitnesses and established news organizations share in content creation. • The study also concluded that YouTube was becoming an important platform by which people acquire news. • The accessibility of online media has also enhanced the interest for journalism among the youth and this has lead to the rise of citizen journalists.
online video will dramatically accelerate scientific advance, and that video contributors may be about to launch "the biggest learning cycle in human history." • For example, the Khan Academy grew from YouTube video tutoring sessions for founder Salman Khan's cousin into what is being called "the largest school in the world", with technology poised to disrupt how people learn.
Orchestra selected their membership based on individual video performances. • Further, the cyber collaboration charity video "We Are the World 25 for Haiti (YouTube edition)" was formed by mixing performances of 57 globally distributed singers into a single musical work.