Happy birthday, YouTube! Twenty years after the first start of 2005, the streaming platform has joined the undeniable champion of online streaming.
The first YouTube video is a 19 -second clip of elephants at the San Diego Zoo. It was uploaded on April 23, 2005, a software engineer born in Germany by Jab Karim, founder of YouTube, who formed the company with two PayPal peers at the age of 25. The company says the site officially launched December 15 after a few months, and now there are more than a billion videos on YouTube, uploading 20 million every day.
YouTube is now the global Google’s second largest website, acquired by $ 1.65 billion in 2006. According to a report by the Market Research Agency OPEPL, this is the first website in the General Z, followed by Instagram and Taxotok. According to the CNBC report, its income is on the way to overthrowing Disney by the end of this year.
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In honor of his 20th anniversary, the YouTube platform is “breaking its silence” on the “invisible jewelry”. Some keyboards may have fun playing with shortcuts, such as the left/right arrow to speed up or rewind, or tap the space bar to play or stop a video. You can put a long pressure on the video player to see at a speed. Parents can review what their children are seeing by activating the mode of “approve yourself”.
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It seems that YouTube is also promoting its music products, possibly to cope with the growing presence of tricktok in the music space. “Finding a song,” which helps identify songs by microphone or by singing. People who have premium subscriptions (for individuals. 13.99/a month, or for families. 22.99) can also create a “personalized radio station” using music.
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