YouTube started as a video dating site
The founders (Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Karim) registered the domain name on Valentine’s Day. They were not sure in the direction in which they wanted to take the side, but they gave the slogan “Tune in Hook -Up”. Because of the date.
According to CNET, Chen said at the SXSW conference in 2016: “We always thought that there was something with” video “, but what would be the actual practical application? (…) We thought that dating would be the obvious choice.
The first video that was uploaded to YouTube in 2005 was uploaded with the title “Me im Zoo” with the title “Me in the Zoo”.
I in the zoo Karim was uploaded by YouTube co-founder. The title has never changed, but occasionally Karim will not agree with a decision of the current management of YouTube and use the video description to criticize it.
The longest on YouTube uploaded video was 596.5 hours
Jonathan Harchick has set up the record for the longest video ever on YouTube. Harchick’s first shop uploaded a 571-hour video and later defeated it by uploading “the longest video on YouTube: 596.5 hours”.
None of Harchick’s videos is still publicly displayed on YouTube. The longest video on YouTube in 2022 is probably the 213 -hour video, which was uploaded by User Reezon Zean.
The first video that reached a million views on YouTube was a Nike display
In October 2005, Nike uploaded an advertisement with Brazilian football player Ronaldinho. The video reached one million views ten days later. Nike later removed the video, but in 2015 Nike uploaded a remastered version of the video to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the advertisement.
Since the brand licensing of media is sometimes stupid, this remastered video has also been removed from the Nike Canal since then. The video was uploaded in August 2006 by User Teamc05 (which apparently had no belonging to Nike) and was still displayed on YouTube in 2022.
The first video that reached a billion views on YouTube was gangnam style
In 2012, “Gangnam Style” from Psy met 1 billion views on YouTube. While this no longer has the only video (it is not even the most viewed video), “Gangnam Style” was the first to break the barrier.
YouTube’s Early Corporate Offices In San Mateo, CaliforniaWere BBetween a pizzeria and a Japanese restaurant
In 2006 the Washington Post wrote: “There is no sign outside the office of the Internet video sensation YouTube Inc., which is located on a loft on the second floor along the main single-storey strip of this small Silicon Valley Town. Two glass doors that were classified between a pizza place and a Japanese restaurant, led to a clear elevator. Ellbogen. Ellbogen, stare in computer screens.
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