There are certain birthdays that do not rejuvenate us. Know thatApple recently blowed out its 49th candle. The first iPhone of the name, it celebrated its 18ᵉ anniversary last January. The Apple Watch is a bit young, since it celebrates its 10th anniversary this April 24, 2025. Another birthday deserves just as much to be celebrated:that of Youtube.The world's most popular video accommodation platform has just been 20 years old.
YouTube is 20 years old, how did the platform evolve over time?
On April 23, 2005, YouTube welcomed his very first video. ""Me at the zooIs published by Jawed Karim, one of the platform co -founders with Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. The beginning of one of the greatest success story in the history of the Internet. Note that the 19 -second video is still available on Jawed Karim's YouTube channel.It has just over 356 million views.
Originally, YouTube was to beA dating site based on the use of videos, as Steve Chen revealed in 2016. Finally, the three former Paypal employees decide to make it a more "classic" video hosting platform. YouTube soon made a name for itself, to the point that Google bought the service in 2006 for an amount of$ 1.6 billion.
A very good operation for the three co -founders, even by constantly evolving the 2006 platform to date. YouTube has experienced multiple advances over the years. Some have been done according to technological developments such as the arrival of 4K, 8K or even virtual reality.
Others have rather been integrated due to new uses of the world's population. In addition to classic videos,There are now shorts, a short videos format supposed to overshadow Tiktok and Instagram reels. Let's not forget eitherPremium YouTube and its subscriptionsgiving access to exclusive features.
Today, YouTube is doing better than ever: the platform has reached the$ 50 billion in income over 12 monthsFor the first time in 2024. A large part, 36 billion, comes from advertising capable of annoying any pressed user to access its content.
YouTube's blog shares some interesting data on the occasion of this 20ᵉ anniversary. For example, the fastest title to havereached one billion views isHellod'Adèle (88 days).In addition, more than 20 million videos are published every day on the platform. Note that YouTube Music and YouTube Kids are celebrating their 10 years. YouTube even welcomes some new features to celebrate all of this.
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