Happy Birhday YouTube
Created in 2005, YouTube celebrates its 10th birhday this year. Why is it so succesful?
The first video uploaded on YouTube is called "Me at the zoo". It was posted in 2005 by Jawed Karim, one of the three creators of the website, and it shows him at San Diego zoo. The video is not interesting, but it was the begining of a great succes story: Internet users suddenly had a platform to share their ow videos! With 300 hours of content uploaded every minute, you will always find what you are looking for. You decide what you want to watch on your own "tube" a slang word for "TV".
Influence and Barack Obama:
YouTube is not only used by young people, humorists, or for cat videos. It is also a perfect way for politicians and importan public igures to reach a wider audience. For this 2008 presidential campaing, Barack Obama used YouTube as his main channel of information. One of the best known videos sows obama giving his first speech with the slogan "Yes we can". The slogan helped him to become the first black president of the United States of America!
Music and Justin Bieber:
In 2007, videos of a 13-year-old boy singing and playing the guitar were posted on YouTube. A music producer saw them, was impressed and contacted the singer's mother. The myth Justin Bieber began. Two years later, Biebe's song were a huge hit with teenagers. Without YouTube, Justin Bieber's success would not have been so fast. And like him, other singers have been discovered on YouTube like PSY with his song "Gangnam Style" -it is still the website's most-viewed video ever.
Maths, make-up and cooking:
Salman Khan started teaching his cousin maths via videos uploaded on YouTube. His views continued to grow and, in 2006, Khan created the "Khan Academy", a Youtube channel offering free tutorials and classes. The videos were viewed 458 milion times all around the world. Today, there are thousands of tutorials on YouTube. You can learn to do almost anything: knitting, make-up, and even unblochink toilets!
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