A Wardrobe Malfunction Lead To The Creation Of Youtube !?

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Krishna Hariharan
Apr 22, 2019   •  48 views

In this digital world, almost 90% of the people have YouTube as the top 3 most used application on their mobile phone. You-Tube has made many choose you tubing as a profession and helped them follow their own passion by just posting videos on YouTube. YouTube has paved the way for gamers, Vloggers, Chefs, tutors, Movie buffs and much more. Now you tube has become the hub for top MNCs to advertise about themselves and also for a normal youngster who could earn money by making proper videos.

Founders
Youtube was created in the year 2004. It was created by the ex-employees of PayPal, realizing that there is no proper place to share the videos. Jawed Karim, Steve Chen, and Chad Hurley are the founders of Youtube.

Reason for creation
After a few years of the launch of youtube, Karim talks about the two reasons that made them create youtube. The two reasons that took place in 2004 are

1.Janot Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction at Super Bowl where Justin Timberlake singing "I will have you naked, at the end of the song" pulled out way too much out of her

2.Tsunami in the India Ocean

Startup
The idea of youtube received an investment of 11.5 million dollars from Sequoia capital in 2005. In February 2005, they registered their domain in the headquarters in California.

First Video Ever

On April 23, 2005, YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim posted thevery first video to YouTube, entitled "Me at the Zoo." Karim was at the San Diego zoo standing in front of the elephants and talking about their trunks.

First One Million Video

Just from one year of the launch, the word “YouTube” started going viral in the US. In September 2005, YouTube had its first 1 million viewed video. The video was a Nike promotion that turned into a web sensation. It was a clasp of Brazilian soccer player Ronaldinho accepting his pair of Golden Boots. Nike was additionally one of the primary real organizations to grasp YouTube's limited time potential.

Google's YouTube

After extremely quick growth, Google acquired the company less than a year later for around $1.65 billion.In any case, the site was still generally little contrasted with what we see today. YouTube just had about 65 workers around then.

Gangnam Style!
Toward the finish of 2011, the entire site got a gigantic upgrade. Around one year later, the first historically speaking video to hit one billion perspectives was Psy's 'Gangnam Style' not long after the site reported four billion every day video sees.

YouTube Now

Presently YouTube is the world's most famous online video webpage, with clients watching 4 billion hours of video every month and transferring 72 hours of video consistently. Since its beginning in 2005, YouTube has developed from a site dedicated to novice recordings to one that appropriates unique substance. It played an instrumental job amid the Arab Spring and hasalso helped kick off the professions of Justin Bieber and Korean pop sensation Psy.

Pic Courtesy:
https://hellogiggles.com/reviews-coverage/its-been-14-years-since-janet-jacksons-super-bowl-wardrobe-malfunction-and-its-still-not-right-how-she-was-blamed/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/6125914/How-20-popular-websites-looked-when-they-launched.html

https://www.wheninmanila.com/me-at-the-zoo-first-video-on-youtube-reaches-10-year-old-mark/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6JdxaDDzb8
https://www.wsj.com/articles/gangnam-re-styles-youtube-1417660563

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