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YOU TUBE
 YouTube is an American video-sharing platform
headquartered in San Bruno, California

 Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve

Chen, and Jawed Karim Created the service in February
2005

  Google bought the site in November 2006 for

US$1.65 billion
 It has over a billion users, which is almost a third of the

entire internet population. These users watch hundreds

of millions of hours of content every single day.
 In April 2005 first video posted to the site
named as ‘me at zoo’ was only a 19 sec
video
 Oct 2006 Google see the potential in

YouTube and they accrued YouTube for 1.65

billion
 July 2007, YouTube team up with CNN to host

the presidential debate for the 2008 election

cycle, 7 out of 16 presidential candidate
announced their campaign through YouTube
 Aug 2007 google decided its time to start
making money and rolls out the first ads for
you tube
 In November 2008, YouTube reached an agre

ement with MGM, Lions Gate Entertainment, a
nd CBS, allowing the companies to post full-
length films and television episodes on the sit
e, accompanied by advertisements in a sectio
n for US viewers called "Shows".

The move was intended to create competition
 with websites such as Hulu, which features m
aterial from NBC, Fox, and Disney.
 In January 2010 YouTube introduced an online film rentals
service which is currently available only to users in the US,
Canada and the UK The service offers over 6,000 films.

 In March 2010 YouTube began free streaming of certain

content, including 60 cricket matches of the Indian
Premier League. According to YouTube, this was the first
worldwide free online broadcast of a major sporting event

 During November 2011, the Google social networking site 

was integrated directly with YouTube and the Chrome web
 browser, allowing YouTube videos to be viewed from with
in the Google interface.
Features


Video technology
 User features
 Content accessibility
 Localization
 YouTube Premium
 YouTube TV
 YouTube Go
 YouTube Music
 Content partnerships
 YouTube has 2 billion users worldwide.

 79 percent of Internet users have their own YouTube account.

 You can navigate YouTube in a total of 80 different languages which

covers 95% of the Internet population.

 94 percent of American users between the age range of 18-44 year old
accessed YouTube at least once a month.

 62 percent of businesses use YouTube as a channel to post video content.

 More than 70 percent of YouTube watch time comes from mobile devices.
  90 percent of people say they discover new brands or products on
YouTube.
 400 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute worldwide.
Internationalization

 On June 19, 2007, Google CEO Eric

Schmidt was in Paris to launch the
new localization system. The interface of the
website is available with localized versions in
89 countries, one territory (Hong Kong) and a
worldwide version