Youtube - Video sharing platform
What actually YouTube wants:
We believe that everyone deserves to have a voice and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories.Our mission is to give everyone a voice and show them the world.
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Its brilliant features:
- We partly have Janet Jackson's nip-slip to thank for the creation of youtube.
- The very first youtube video upload was called "Me at the Zoo".
- Size hit "Gangnam Style" was the first video to hit 1 billion views.
- For April fools day 2008 Youtube rickrolled all of the visitors.
- The most-watched video on youtube that isn't a music video is charlie bit my finger.
- The most wealthy anonymous YouTuber.
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About YouTube:
YouTube is an American online video sharing and social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. Owned by Google, it is the second most visited website, right after Google itself. YouTube has more than one billion monthly users who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day. As of May 2019, videos were being uploaded at more than 500 hours of content per minute.
In October 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion. Google's ownership of YouTube has also changed its business model; it no longer generates revenue from advertisements alone, YouTube now offers paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by YouTube. It also offers a paid subscription option for watching content without ads, YouTube Premium. YouTube and approved creators participate in Google's AdSense program, which seeks to generate more revenue for both parties. YouTube's reported revenue for 2020 was $19.8 billion.
Since its purchase by Google, YouTube has expanded beyond the core website into mobile apps, network television, and the ability to link with other platforms. Video categories on YouTube include music videos, video clips, news, short films, feature films, documentaries, audio recordings, movie trailers, teasers, live streams, vlogs, and more. Most content is generated by individuals, including collaborations between YouTubers and corporate sponsors. Established media corporations such as Disney, Paramount Global, and WarnerMedia have also created and expanded their corporate YouTube channels to advertise to a larger audience.
YouTube has had an unprecedented social impact, influencing popular culture, and internet trends, and creating multimillionaire celebrities. Despite all its growth and success, YouTube has been widely criticized. Criticism of YouTube includes the website being used to facilitate the spread of misinformation, copyright issues, routine violations of its users' privacy, enabling censorship, and endangering child safety and wellbeing.
About YouTube's Founders:
STEVE CHEN
Steve Chen - Steven Shih Chen is a Taiwanese-American Internet entrepreneur who is one of the co-founders and previous chief technology officer of the video-sharing website YouTube. After having co-founded the company AVOS Systems, Inc. and built the video-sharing app MixBit, he joined Google Ventures in 2014.
His today's life:
Chen married Park Ji-Hyun, who is now Jamie Chen, a Google Korea product marketing manager, in 2009. They now live in Taipei, Taiwan with their two children. One son was born in July 2010. The Chinese are major supporters of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, where Jamie was appointed a trustee in July 2012. In August 2019, Chen moved back to Taiwan and resides there since then, along with his family.
- Born: 25 August 1978 (age 43 years), Taipei City, Taipei, Taiwan
- Spouse: Park Ji-Hyun (m. 2009)
- Children: 2
- Known for: Co-founder of YouTube & AVOS
- Education: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, MORE
- Nationality: American, Taiwanese
CHAD HURLEY
Chad Hurley - Chad Meredith Hurley is an American webmaster and businessman who serves as the advisor and former chief executive officer (CEO) of YouTube. He also co-founded MixBit. In June 2006, he was voted 28th on Business 2.0's "50 People Who Matter Now" list. In October 2006, he and Steve Chen sold YouTube for $1.65 billion to Google. Hurley worked in eBay's PayPal division—one of his tasks involved designing the original PayPal logo—before co-founding YouTube with fellow PayPal colleagues Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. Hurley was primarily responsible for the tagging and video sharing aspects of YouTube.
His today's life:
Hurley was formerly married to Kathy Clark, the daughter of Silicon Valley entrepreneur James H. Clark. They were divorced in 2014. Hurley remarried in 2020, to Elise Walden.
- Born: 24 January 1977 (age 45 years), Reading, Pennsylvania, United States
- Nationality: American
- Spouse: Kathy Clark (m. 2000)
- Known for: Co-founder of YouTube & AVOS
- Siblings: Brent Hurley
- Parents: Don Hurley, Joann Hurley
- Education: the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Twin Valley High School
JAWED KARIM
- Born: 28 October 1979 (age 42 years), Merseburg, Germany
- Channel: jawed
- Known for: Co-founder of YouTube; Uploader of the first video on YouTube (Me at the zoo)
- Parents: Naimul Karim, Christine Karim
- Siblings: Ilias Karim
- Education: the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2004), Central High School, Stanford University
- Nationality: American, Bangladeshi, German
History:
YouTube was founded by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. The trio was all early employees of PayPal, which left them enriched after the company was bought by eBay. Hurley had studied design at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
According to a story that has often been repeated in the media, Hurley and Chen developed the idea for YouTube during the early months of 2005, after they had experienced difficulty sharing videos that had been shot at a dinner party at Chen's apartment in San Francisco. Karim did not attend the party and denied that it had occurred, but Chen remarked that the idea that YouTube was founded after a dinner party "was probably very strengthened by marketing ideas around creating a story that was very digestible".
Karim said the inspiration for YouTube first came from the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy when Janet Jackson's breast was briefly exposed by Justin Timberlake during the halftime show. Karim could not easily find video clips of the incident and the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami online, which led to the idea of a video-sharing site. Hurley and Chen said that the original idea for YouTube was a video version of an online dating service, and had been influenced by the website Hot or Not. They created posts on Craigslist asking attractive women to upload videos of themselves to YouTube in exchange for a $100 reward. Difficulty in finding enough dating videos led to a change of plans, with the site's founders deciding to accept uploads of any type of video.
Features:
Video technology
YouTube primarily uses the VP9 and H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video codecs, and the Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP protocol. MPEG-4 Part 2 streams contained within 3GP containers are also provided for low bandwidth connections. By January 2019, YouTube had begun rolling out videos in AV1 format. In 2021 it was reported that the company was considering requiring AV1 in streaming hardware to decrease bandwidth and increase quality. Video is usually streamed alongside the Opus and AAC audio codecs.
At launch in 2005, viewing YouTube videos on a personal computer required the Adobe Flash Player plug-in to be installed in the browser. In January 2010, YouTube launched an experimental version of the site that used the built-in multimedia capabilities of web browsers supporting the HTML5 standard. This allowed videos to be viewed without requiring Adobe Flash Player or any other plug-in to be installed. On January 27, 2015, YouTube announced that HTML5 would be the default playback method on supported browsers. With the switch to HTML5 video streams using Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH), an HTTP-based adaptive bit-rate streaming solution optimizes the bit rate and quality for the available network.
The platform can serve videos at optionally lower resolution levels starting at 144p for smoothening playback in areas and countries with limited Internet speeds, improving compatibility, as well as for the preservation of limited cellular data plans. The resolution setting can be adjusted automatically based on detected connection speed, as well as be set manually.
Uploading
All YouTube users can upload videos for up to 15 minutes each in duration. Users can verify their account, normally through a mobile phone, to gain the ability to upload videos up to 12 hours in length, as well as produce live streams. When YouTube was launched in 2005, it was possible to upload longer videos, but a 10-minute limit was introduced in March 2006 after YouTube found that the majority of videos exceeding this length were unauthorized uploads of television shows and films. The 10-minute limit was increased to 15 minutes in July 2010. Videos can be at most 256 GB in size or 12 hours, whichever is less. As of 2021, automatic closed captions using speech recognition technology when a video is uploaded are available in 13 languages and can be machine-translated during playback.
YouTube also offers manual closed captioning as part of its creator studio. YouTube formerly offered a 'Community Captions' feature, where viewers could write and submit captions for public display upon approval by the video uploader, but this was deprecated in September 2020.
YouTube accepts the most common container formats, including MP4, Matroska, FLV, AVI, WebM, 3GP, MPEG-PS, and the QuickTime File Format. Some intermediate video formats (i.e., primarily used for professional video editing, not for final delivery or storage) are also accepted, such as ProRes. YouTube provides recommended encoding settings
Each video is identified by an eleven-character case-sensitive alphanumerical Base64 string in the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) which can contain letters, digits, an underscore (_), and a dash (-).
In 2018, YouTube added a feature called Premiere which displays a notification to the user mentioning when the video will be available for the first time, like for a live stream but with a prerecorded video. When the scheduled time arrives, the video is aired as a live broadcast with a two-minute countdown. Optionally, a premiere can be initiated immediately.
From 2008 to 2017, users could add "annotations" to their videos—such as pop-up text messages and hyperlinks which allowed for interactive videos. By 2019 all annotations had been removed from videos, breaking some videos which depended on the feature. YouTube introduced standardized widgets intended to replace annotations in a cross-platform manner, including "end screens" (a customizable array of thumbnails for specified videos displayed near the end of the video).
In 2018, YouTube became an ISNI registry and announced its intention to begin creating ISNI identifiers to uniquely identify the musicians whose videos it features.
Quality and formats
YouTube originally offered videos at only one quality level, displayed at a resolution of 320×240 pixels using the Sorenson Spark codec (a variant of H.263), with mono MP3 audio. In June 2007, YouTube added an option to watch videos in 3GP format on mobile phones In March 2008, a high-quality mode was added, which increased the resolution to 480×360 pixels. In December 2008, 720p HD support was added. At the time of the 720p launch, the YouTube player was changed from a 4:3 aspect ratio to a widescreen 16:9. With this new feature, YouTube began a switchover to H.264/MPEG-4 AVC as its default video compression format. In November 2009, 1080p HD support was added. In July 2010, YouTube announced that it had launched a range of videos in 4K format, which allows a resolution of up to 4096×3072 pixels. In July 2010, support for 4K resolution was added, with the videos playing at 3840 × 2160 pixels. In June 2015, support for 8K resolution was added, with the videos playing at 7680×4320 pixels. In November 2016, support for HDR video was added which can be encoded with hybrid log–gamma (HLG) or perceptual quantizer (PQ). HDR video can be encoded with the Rec. 2020 color space.
In June 2014, YouTube began to deploy support for high-frame-rate videos up to 60 frames per second (as opposed to 30 before), becoming available for user uploads in October. YouTube stated that this would enhance "motion-intensive" videos, such as video game footage.
YouTube videos are available in a range of quality levels. Viewers only indirectly influence the video quality. In the mobile apps, users choose between "Auto", which adjusts resolution based on the internet connection, "High Picture Quality" which will prioritize playing high-quality video, and "Data saver" which will sacrifice video quality in favor of low data usage and "Advanced" which lets the user choose a stream resolution. On the desktop, users choose between "Auto" and a specific resolution. It is not possible for the viewer to directly choose a higher bitrate (quality) for any selected resolution.
Since 2009, viewers could watch 3D videos. In 2015, YouTube began natively supporting 360-degree video. Since April 2016, it allowed living streaming 360° video, and both normal and 360° video at up to 1440p, and since November 2016 both at up to 4K (2160p) resolution. Citing the limited number of users who watched more than 90-degrees, it began supporting an alternative stereoscopic video format known as VR180 which it said was easier to produce and allows users to watch any video using virtual reality headsets.
Live Streaming
YouTube carried out early experiments with live streaming, including a concert by U2 in 2009, and a question-and-answer session with US President Barack Obama in February 2010. These tests had relied on technology from 3rd-party partners, but in September 2010, YouTube began testing its own live streaming infrastructure. In April 2011, YouTube announced the rollout of YouTube Live. The creation of live streams was initially limited to select partners. It was used for real-time broadcasting of events such as the 2012 Olympics in London. In October 2012, more than 8 million people watched Felix Baumgartner's jump from the edge of space as a live stream on YouTube.
In May 2013, the creation of live streams was opened to verified users with at least 1,000 subscribers; in August of that year the number was reduced to 100 subscribers, and in December the limit was removed. In February 2017, live streaming was introduced to the official YouTube mobile app. Live streaming via mobile was initially restricted to users with at least 10,000 subscribers, but as of mid-2017, it has been reduced to 100 subscribers. Live streams support HDR, can be up to 4K resolution at 60 fps, and also support 360° video.
In response to increased viewership during the COVID-19 pandemic, YouTube temporarily downgraded the quality of its videos. YouTube developed its own chip, called Argos, to help encode higher resolution videos in 2021.
In certain cases, YouTube allows the uploader to upgrade the quality of videos uploaded a long time ago in poor quality. One such partnership with Universal Music Group included remasters of 1,000 music videos.
Some fun facts:
We partly have Janet Jackson's nip-slip to thank for the creation of youtube.
One of the youtube founders was struggling to find videos of major events online in 2004 including global events like the Indian Ocean tsunami as well as trivial pop culture events like Jenet Jackson's moment of embarrassment while performing with Justin Timberlake this difficulty was one of the reasons the team of founders got together and created a video sharing platform.
The very first youtube video upload was called "Me at the Zoo"
One of the co-founders jawed Kareem uploaded a video of himself at a San Diego zoo and it became the first youtube video, In this youtube video, Kareem explains that he's in front of the elephant enclosure and thinks the elephant along trunks are cool it's pretty basic and only 19 seconds but it has 34 million views.
Size hit "Gangnam Style" was the first video to hit 1 billion views
Just before Christmas 2012 psy made history and broke youtube's video views counter one YouTuber actually came up with a conspiracy believing that Gangnam style was related to the 2012 doomsday he was obviously wrong.
For April fools day 2008 Youtube rickrolled all of the visitors
Rickrolling involves linking someone to rick astley's catchy 1987 hit never going to give you up when they are expecting to be linked to something completely different YouTube got in on the action in 2008 by Rickrolling their visitors with every video on their homepage.
The most-watched video on youtube that isn't a music video is charlie bit my finger
The famously simple but hilarious video charlie bit my finger is the most-watched video on youtube excluding the masses of music videos it currently has eight hundred and forty-four million views the sneezing Panda comes in at second with 221 million.
The most wealthy anonymous YouTuber
The most wealthy anonymous YouTuber in the world DC toy collector is rumored to have earned 3.9 million dollars in 2014 and all of her videos feature her unboxing things on camera her channel has 8 million subscribers and she specializes in unboxing
girly toys dolls and barbies.
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