YouTube

qas: question: Where is Youtube headquartered? 
answers: text: San Bruno, California, United States

question: When was Youtube created?
answers: text: February 2005

question: How much did Google pay for Youtube in 2006?
answers: text: US$1.65 billion

question: Other than video blogging and and educational videos, what content is available on youtube?
answers: text: short original videos

question: How does youtube now operate as a business?
answers: text: as one of Google's subsidiaries

question: What company did the three employees that started YouTube in 2006 used to work for?

question: Who bought YouTube in 2005 for US$1.65 billion?

question: Who's subsidiary does Google now operate under?

question: What other technology does YouTube use besides WebM and H.642/MPEG-4 VAC?
context: YouTube is a global video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States. The service was created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005. In November 2006, it was bought by Google for US$1.65 billion. YouTube now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries. The site allows users to upload, view, rate, share, and comment on videos, and it makes use of WebM, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, and Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated and corporate media video. Available content includes video clips, TV clips, music videos, movie trailers, and other content such as video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos.

qas: question: What are the first names of the men that invented youtube?
answers: text: Hurley and Chen

question: Where did Chen live in 2005?
answers: text: San Francisco

question: When did the creators have the idea for youtube?
answers: text: the early months of 2005

question: What was the original stimuli for creating the website?
answers: text: difficulty sharing videos

question: Where did Chen live in 2007?

question: When did the creators have the idea for Google?

question: What wasn't the original reason for creating the website?

question: Who sold YouTube?

question: When did Chen Hurley develop the idea for YouTube?

question: What city did Chen Hurley live in?

question: What did Karim Hurley not attend?
context: According to a story that has often been repeated in the media, Hurley and Chen developed the idea for YouTube during the early months of 2005, after they had experienced difficulty sharing videos that had been shot at a dinner party at Chen's apartment in San Francisco. Karim did not attend the party and denied that it had occurred, but Chen commented that the idea that YouTube was founded after a dinner party "was probably very strengthened by marketing ideas around creating a story that was very digestible".

qas: question: when was the first beta test for the youtube site?
answers: text: May 2005

question: What was the first video to reach a million views?
answers: text: a Nike advertisement

question: How much did Sequoia Capital invest in youtube in November of 2005?
answers: text: $3.5 million

question: What was the official launch date for the youtube website?
answers: text: December 15, 2005

question: As of May 2010 how many total video views had youtube attained?
answers: text: 14 billion

question: What happened in March 2005?

question: What was the second video to reach a million views?

question: What hockey star was in the Nike advertisement?

question: What ad first aired in August 2005?

question: What happened on December 25, 2005?

question: What type of public test was offered in May 2006?

question: What video first reached one million views in July 2005?

question: What happened on December 15, 2006?

question: How many videos were being uploaded every day by July 2010?

question: What company has a market share of 14%?
context: YouTube offered the public a beta test of the site in May 2005. The first video to reach one million views was a Nike advertisement featuring Ronaldinho in September 2005. Following a $3.5 million investment from Sequoia Capital in November, the site launched officially on December 15, 2005, by which time the site was receiving 8 million views a day. The site grew rapidly, and in July 2006 the company announced that more than 65,000 new videos were being uploaded every day, and that the site was receiving 100 million video views per day. According to data published by market research company comScore, YouTube is the dominant provider of online video in the United States, with a market share of around 43% and more than 14 billion views of videos in May 2010.

qas: question: As of 2014, how many hours of video were being uploaded every  minute?
answers: text: 300

question: How much content on youtube comes from outside the US?
answers: text: around three quarters

question: How many unique visitors a month were tracked as of 2014?
answers: text: 800 million

question: As of June 2015, how many estimated visitors does youtube have in a month?
answers: text: 15 billion

question: Youtube is ranked what on the world's list of most visited sites?
answers: text: third

question: When did YouTube say 400 hours were being uploaded every minute?

question: How much content on youtube comes from inside the US?

question: What is ranked second on the world's list of most visited sites?

question: What is ranked fourth on the world's list of most visited sites?

question: What has more than 20 billion visitors per month?

question: How many hours of new video every minute did YouTube say were uploaded in 2015?

question: How much bandwidth did YouTube consume in 2014?

question: How many visitors per month did YouTube have as of June 2014?

question: What is the third most visited website in the world as of June 2014?
context: In 2014 YouTube said that 300 hours of new videos were uploaded to the site every minute, three times more than one year earlier and that around three quarters of the material comes from outside the U.S. The site has 800 million unique users a month. It is estimated that in 2007 YouTube consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000. According to third-party web analytics providers, Alexa and SimilarWeb, YouTube is the third most visited website in the world, as of June 2015; SimilarWeb also lists YouTube as the top TV and video website globally, attracting more than 15 billion visitors per month.

qas: question: What did youtube do on March 31 2010? 
answers: text: launched a new design

question: Who was the Google product manager in 2010?
answers: text: Shiva Rajaraman

question: How many videos was youtube serving per day as of May 2010?
answers: text: more than two billion

question: How many views per day was youtube receiving as of May 2011?
answers: text: more than three billion

question: How many videos per day were streamed as of January 2012?
answers: text: four billion

question: What happened on March 30 2010?

question: Who was the Google product manager in 2009?

question:  How many videos was youtube serving per day as of May 2011?

question:  How many videos per day were streamed as of January 2014?

question:  How many views per day was youtube receiving as of May 2012?

question: What did YouTube launch on March 13, 2010?

question: What did Rajaraman Shiva say about the new design?

question: How many videos was YouTube serving per day in March 2010?

question: How many views was YouTube recieving in March 2011?

question: How many videos were being streamed per day in January 2010?
context: On March 31, 2010, the YouTube website launched a new design, with the aim of simplifying the interface and increasing the time users spend on the site. Google product manager Shiva Rajaraman commented: "We really felt like we needed to step back and remove the clutter." In May 2010, it was reported that YouTube was serving more than two billion videos a day, which it described as "nearly double the prime-time audience of all three major US television networks combined". In May 2011, YouTube reported in its company blog that the site was receiving more than three billion views per day. In January 2012, YouTube stated that the figure had increased to four billion videos streamed per day.

qas: question: What did youtube announce in Feb of 2015?
answers: text: a new app

question: what was the name of the new app youtube launched?
answers: text: YouTube Kids

question: What platform was launched in Aug of 2015?
answers: text: YouTube Gaming

question: What is the name of the youtube feature that removes ads and allows downloading movies?
answers: text: YouTube Red

question: On what OS was the YouTube Kids app available?
answers: text: both Android and iOS

question: What happened in March 2015?

question: What happened on August 25, 2015?

question: What is YouTube Blue?

question: What OS is YouTube kids unavailable?

question: What's the name of the program that gives ads?

question: What did YouTube launch in August 2015 for children?

question: What was launched on February 26, 2015?

question: What was launched to compete with Twitch.VT?

question: What premium service was launched in February 2015?
context: In February 2015, YouTube announced the launch of a new app specifically for use by children visiting the site, called YouTube Kids. It allows parental controls and restrictions on who can upload content, and is available for both Android and iOS devices. Later on August 26, 2015, YouTube Gaming was launched, a platform for video gaming enthusiasts intended to compete with Twitch.tv. 2015 also saw the announcement of a premium YouTube service titled YouTube Red, which provides users with both ad-free content as well as the ability to download videos among other features.

qas: question: In 2010 youtube launched a version of its site that ran on what standard?
answers: text: HTML5

question: What was the main benefit from the switch to HTML5?
answers: text: allowed videos to be viewed without requiring Adobe Flash Player

question: How did users opt into the trial version of youtube's HTML5 site?
answers: text: a page

question: What format besides H.264 was playable with HTML5?
answers: text: WebM

question: When did HTML4 become standard?

question: What happened in January 2009?

question:  What format besides H.264 was playable with HTML4?

question:  What was the main benefit from the switch to HTML4?

question: When did YouTube launch a version of its site that supported the HMLT5 standard?

question: What was no longer required with the support of HMLT5?

question: What were browsers supporting in order to use the H.642 or WemB formats?
context: In January 2010, YouTube launched an experimental version of the site that used the built-in multimedia capabilities of web browsers supporting the HTML5 standard. This allowed videos to be viewed without requiring Adobe Flash Player or any other plug-in to be installed. The YouTube site had a page that allowed supported browsers to opt into the HTML5 trial. Only browsers that supported HTML5 Video using the H.264 or WebM formats could play the videos, and not all videos on the site were available.

qas: question: What is the maximum length of a video on youtube?
answers: text: 12 hours

question: When a user with a new account posts a video, what is the maximum length allowed?
answers: text: 15 minutes

question: When was the time limit on video length first enacted on youtube?
answers: text: March 2006

question: in 2006 Youtube found that the majority of longer videos were what?
answers: text: unauthorized uploads

question: What is the upload file size limit on out of date browsers?
answers: text: 20 GB

question:  What is the minimum length of a video on youtube?

question: When did they do away with the limit for the maximum length allowed?

question: What happened in August 2010?

question:  What is the upload file size limit on up to date browsers?

question: Who can upload videos of 12 minutes in duration?

question: Who can upload videos of 15 hours in duration?

question: What time limit was introduced in March 2005?

question: What was increased from 10 to 15 in July 2001?
context: All YouTube users can upload videos up to 15 minutes each in duration. Users who have a good track record of complying with the site's Community Guidelines may be offered the ability to upload videos up to 12 hours in length, which requires verifying the account, normally through a mobile phone. When YouTube was launched in 2005, it was possible to upload long videos, but a ten-minute limit was introduced in March 2006 after YouTube found that the majority of videos exceeding this length were unauthorized uploads of television shows and films. The 10-minute limit was increased to 15 minutes in July 2010. If an up-to-date browser version is used, videos greater than 20 GB can be uploaded.

qas: question: When was 720p HD support added to youtube?
answers: text: In November 2008

question: What did youtube change its screen format to from 4:3?
answers: text: widescreen 16:9

question: What video format support was added in 2009?
answers: text: 1080p HD

question: What is the highest resolution of video supported by youtube?
answers: text: 8K resolution

question: What is the name of the format that has dimensions of 4096×3072 pixels?
answers: text: 4K

question: What ratio was YouTube played changed to in July 2008?

question: When did YouTube begin a switchover to H.246/MPEG-4?

question: What was added in July 2009?

question: What was added in November 2015?
context: In November 2008, 720p HD support was added. At the time of the 720p launch, the YouTube player was changed from a 4:3 aspect ratio to a widescreen 16:9. With this new feature, YouTube began a switchover to H.264/MPEG-4 AVC as its default video compression format. In November 2009, 1080p HD support was added. In July 2010, YouTube announced that it had launched a range of videos in 4K format, which allows a resolution of up to 4096×3072 pixels. In June 2015, support for 8K resolution was added, with the videos playing at 7680×4320 pixels.

qas: question: Peter Bradshaw held what position in youtube?
answers: text: software engineer

question: What type of videos did youtube officially start supporting in July 2009?
answers: text: 3D

question: What is the name for the common method of viewing a 3d movie, with red and blue glasses?
answers: text: anaglyph

question: When did HTML5 officially support side-by-side 3D footage?
answers: text: In May 2011

question: What was announced by Peter Bradshaw on May 21, 2009?

question: What did YouTube begin supporting in July 2011?

question: What ways can all YouTube videos be viewed?
context: In a video posted on July 21, 2009, YouTube software engineer Peter Bradshaw announced that YouTube users can now upload 3D videos. The videos can be viewed in several different ways, including the common anaglyph (cyan/red lens) method which utilizes glasses worn by the viewer to achieve the 3D effect. The YouTube Flash player can display stereoscopic content interleaved in rows, columns or a checkerboard pattern, side-by-side or anaglyph using a red/cyan, green/magenta or blue/yellow combination. In May 2011, an HTML5 version of the YouTube player began supporting side-by-side 3D footage that is compatible with Nvidia 3D Vision.

qas: question: Youtube offers users the option to watch content where?
answers: text: outside their website

question: What is used to embed a youtube video to a webpage?
answers: text: HTML

question: What is the most common use of embedded youtube videos?
answers: text: social networking pages and blogs

question: What is a video called when a person records themselves watching a different video?
answers: text: "video response"

question: When did youtube officially remove the response feature?
answers: text: On August 27, 2013

question: What does the HMTL piece that accompanies each video do?

question: What is the HMTL functionality often used for?

question: What did YouTube announce on August 13, 2017?

question: What are the features video users can disable?
context: YouTube offers users the ability to view its videos on web pages outside their website. Each YouTube video is accompanied by a piece of HTML that can be used to embed it on any page on the Web. This functionality is often used to embed YouTube videos in social networking pages and blogs. Users wishing to post a video discussing, inspired by or related to another user's video are able to make a "video response". On August 27, 2013, YouTube announced that it would remove video responses for being an underused feature. Embedding, rating, commenting and response posting can be disabled by the video owner.

qas: question: YOutube does not often post a what for its videos?
answers: text: download link

question: Youtube intends for users to watch videos where?
answers: text: through its website

question: What was added to the upload options in July of 2012?
answers: text: a Creative Commons license

question: Which site removed the option of downloading youtube videos after 2012?
answers: text: Zamzar

question: Which videos are often available for download straight from youtube?
answers: text: the weekly addresses by President Barack Obama

question: What did YouTube announce in February 2012?

question: What did Google send in June 2009?

question: Whose weekly addresses could be downloaded as videos?

question: What has been the status regarding Creative Commons since June 2012?
context: YouTube does not usually offer a download link for its videos, and intends for them to be viewed through its website interface. A small number of videos, such as the weekly addresses by President Barack Obama, can be downloaded as MP4 files. Numerous third-party web sites, applications and browser plug-ins allow users to download YouTube videos. In February 2009, YouTube announced a test service, allowing some partners to offer video downloads for free or for a fee paid through Google Checkout. In June 2012, Google sent cease and desist letters threatening legal action against several websites offering online download and conversion of YouTube videos. In response, Zamzar removed the ability to download YouTube videos from its site. The default settings when uploading a video to YouTube will retain a copyright on the video for the uploader, but since July 2012 it has been possible to select a Creative Commons license as the default, allowing other users to reuse and remix the material if it is free of copyright.

qas: question: When did youtube become available on Apple products?
answers: text: June 2007

question: When did youtube launch its first app for the iPhone?
answers: text: September 2012

question: What percentage of Smartphone users use the youtube app?
answers: text: 35%

question: What is Apple's prefered video standard?
answers: text: H.264

question: How long did it take to transfer Youtube's content to Apple's standard?
answers: text: several months

question: What company's products has YouTube's videos been available on since July 2007?

question: What is H.642 to Apple?

question: What was relaunched in June 2010?

question: What did YouTube launch in July 2012?

question: How many smartphone users used YouTube between April and June 2012?
context: Since June 2007, YouTube's videos have been available for viewing on a range of Apple products. This required YouTube's content to be transcoded into Apple's preferred video standard, H.264, a process that took several months. YouTube videos can be viewed on devices including Apple TV, iPod Touch and the iPhone. In July 2010, the mobile version of the site was relaunched based on HTML5, avoiding the need to use Adobe Flash Player and optimized for use with touch screen controls. The mobile version is also available as an app for the Android platform. In September 2012, YouTube launched its first app for the iPhone, following the decision to drop YouTube as one of the preloaded apps in the iPhone 5 and iOS 6 operating system. According to GlobalWebIndex, YouTube was used by 35% of smartphone users between April and June 2013, making it the third most used app.

qas: question: What service was able to search and play youtube videos as of 2008?
answers: text: TiVo

question: What did youtube launch in Jan of 2009?
answers: text: YouTube for TV

question: later in 2009 what service replaced youtube for TV
answers: text: YouTube XL

question: Google made youtube streamable on what gaming console in DEC. of 2013?
answers: text: the Roku player

question: When did youtube finally become available on the Playstation 4?
answers: text: October 2014

question: What did YouTube launch in January 2008?

question: What was introduced in June 2008?

question: What was launched on November 12, 2015?

question: What was made available on December 13, 2017?

question: What was YouTube made available on during October 2013?
context: A TiVo service update in July 2008 allowed the system to search and play YouTube videos. In January 2009, YouTube launched "YouTube for TV", a version of the website tailored for set-top boxes and other TV-based media devices with web browsers, initially allowing its videos to be viewed on the PlayStation 3 and Wii video game consoles. In June 2009, YouTube XL was introduced, which has a simplified interface designed for viewing on a standard television screen. YouTube is also available as an app on Xbox Live. On November 15, 2012, Google launched an official app for the Wii, allowing users to watch YouTube videos from the Wii channel. An app is also available for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS, and videos can be viewed on the Wii U Internet Browser using HTML5. Google made YouTube available on the Roku player on December 17, 2013 and in October 2014, the Sony PlayStation 4.

qas: question: What is youtube red?
answers: text: YouTube's premium subscription service

question: When was youtube red originally announced?
answers: text: November 12, 2014

question: What was the original title of youtube red?
answers: text: Music Key

question: When was youtube red re-launched with its added features?
answers: text: October 28, 2015

question: What service was "music key" intended to replace?
answers: text: Google Play Music "All Access"

question: What is YouTube Premium?

question: What does YouTube Premium offer?

question: What was originally announced on November 14, 2012?

question: What was YouTube Premium originally called in 2014?

question: What was relaunched on October 12, 2015?
context: YouTube Red is YouTube's premium subscription service. It offers advertising-free streaming, access to exclusive content, background and offline video playback on mobile devices, and access to the Google Play Music "All Access" service. YouTube Red was originally announced on November 12, 2014, as "Music Key", a subscription music streaming service, and was intended to integrate with and replace the existing Google Play Music "All Access" service. On October 28, 2015, the service was re-launched as YouTube Red, offering ad-free streaming of all videos, as well as access to exclusive original content.

qas: question: Other than private individuals, who has used youtube to grow their audience?
answers: text: large production companies

question: What is the name of youtube's revenue-sharing program?
answers: text: Partner Program

question: What was the highest earning youtube partner video producer?
answers: text: $12 million

question: Big pop artists account for how what percentage of the views on youtube?
answers: text: 90.3%

question: Which music chart said in 2013 it would start taking youtube data into account for its ratings?
answers: text: Billboard

question: How did a 2012 MCU business editor characterize YouTube?

question: What did Katheryn Thayer say in 2012 about YouTube videos?

question: What were 2.5% of artists categorized as in 2012?

question: How many views did the 2.5% of artists receive in 2012?

question: What did Billboard do in early 2012?
context: Both private individuals and large production companies have used YouTube to grow audiences. Independent content creators have built grassroots followings numbering in the thousands at very little cost or effort, while mass retail and radio promotion proved problematic. Concurrently, old media celebrities moved into the website at the invitation of a YouTube management that witnessed early content creators accruing substantial followings, and perceived audience sizes potentially larger than that attainable by television. While YouTube's revenue-sharing "Partner Program" made it possible to earn a substantial living as a video producer—its top five hundred partners each earning more than $100,000 annually and its ten highest-earning channels grossing from $2.5 million to $12 million—in 2012 CMU business editor characterized YouTube as "a free-to-use... promotional platform for the music labels". In 2013 Forbes' Katheryn Thayer asserted that digital-era artists' work must not only be of high quality, but must elicit reactions on the YouTube platform and social media. In 2013, videos of the 2.5% of artists categorized as "mega", "mainstream" and "mid-sized" received 90.3% of the relevant views on YouTube and Vevo. By early 2013 Billboard had announced that it was factoring YouTube streaming data into calculation of the Billboard Hot 100 and related genre charts.

qas: question: Who is the TED curator?
answers: text: Chris Anderson

question: What surprising feature does youtube possibly have the chance to revolutionize? 
answers: text: face-to-face communication

question: Who is the founder of the Khan Academy?
answers: text: Salman Khan

question: What other surprising aspect of human development will youtube likely have an impact on?
answers: text: education

question: What famous historic figure did DET curator Chris Anderson reference? 

question: What did Salman Noer found?

question: What did Michael Khan call the Kahn Academy?
context: Observing that face-to-face communication of the type that online videos convey has been "fine-tuned by millions of years of evolution", TED curator Chris Anderson referred to several YouTube contributors and asserted that "what Gutenberg did for writing, online video can now do for face-to-face communication". Anderson asserted that it's not far-fetched to say that online video will dramatically accelerate scientific advance, and that video contributors may be about to launch "the biggest learning cycle in human history." In education, for example, the Khan Academy grew from YouTube video tutoring sessions for founder Salman Khan's cousin into what Forbes'  Michael Noer called "the largest school in the world", with technology poised to disrupt how people learn.

qas: question: An activist in the Arab spring said they were using Facebook to what?
answers: text: schedule the protests

question: An activist in the Arab spring said they were using Twitter to do what?
answers: text: coordinate

question: An activist in the Arab spring said they were using youtube to do what?
answers: text: tell the world

question: Who was the co-sponsor of the condemnation by the US Senate over the kony 2012 video?
answers: text: Senator Lindsey Graham

question: What year was the first youtube question asked to a presidential nominee?
answers: text: 2007

question: Who did YouTube partner with to engage people in the 2010 presidential debates?

question: What did Philip N. Howard say about 2012's Arab Spring?

question: What happened 12 days after the "Kony 2016" video was posted on YouTube?

question: Who spoke about Kony's demise after the "Kony 2016" video?
context: YouTube has enabled people to more directly engage with government, such as in the CNN/YouTube presidential debates (2007) in which ordinary people submitted questions to U.S. presidential candidates via YouTube video, with a techPresident co-founder saying that Internet video was changing the political landscape. Describing the Arab Spring (2010- ), sociologist Philip N. Howard quoted an activist's succinct description that organizing the political unrest involved using "Facebook to schedule the protests, Twitter to coordinate, and YouTube to tell the world." In 2012, more than a third of the U.S. Senate introduced a resolution condemning Joseph Kony 16 days after the "Kony 2012" video was posted to YouTube, with resolution co-sponsor Senator Lindsey Graham remarking that the video "will do more to lead to (Kony's) demise than all other action combined."

qas: question: How has youtube helped the government?
answers: text: to more easily engage with citizens

question: the white house's youtube channel was the what number ranked news channel on youtube in 2012?
answers: text: seventh

question: What was deemed necessary by the white house when creating youtube content?
answers: text: creators' new media savvy

question: In 2013 who did the healthcare exchange commission to impersonate Obama and post it to youtube?
answers: text: Iman Crosson

question: What was the purpose of Iman Crosson's video?
answers: text: encourage young Americans to enroll

question: Where did the White House's official channel rank in 2013?

question: Whose 2012 video encouraged young Americans to enroll in the ACA?

question: Who held a meeting to promote awareness of Obamacare in February 2013?

question: Who was the target audience of President Obama's February 2013 YouTube meeting?
context: Conversely, YouTube has also allowed government to more easily engage with citizens, the White House's official YouTube channel being the seventh top news organization producer on YouTube in 2012 and in 2013 a healthcare exchange commissioned Obama impersonator Iman Crosson's YouTube music video spoof to encourage young Americans to enroll in the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)-compliant health insurance. In February 2014, U.S. President Obama held a meeting at the White House with leading YouTube content creators to not only promote awareness of Obamacare but more generally to develop ways for government to better connect with the "YouTube Generation". Whereas YouTube's inherent ability to allow presidents to directly connect with average citizens was noted, the YouTube content creators' new media savvy was perceived necessary to better cope with the website's distracting content and fickle audience.

qas: question: What is the name of the group that drew responses from the resident and most of his staff regarding anti-bullying?
answers: text: It Gets Better Project

question: How ling did it take the It Gets Better Project video to draw such a huge response?
answers: text: within two months

question: How old was Amanda Todd when she took her own life because of bullying?
answers: text: fifteen

question: What was done after Amanda Todd's death?
answers: text: legislative action was undertaken

question: What was the goal of the actions taken after Amanda Todd's death?
answers: text: form a national anti-bullying strategy

question: What project was aimed toward LTBG teens?

question: Who did the It Gets Better video draw responses from within 15 months?

question: Whose video prompted legislative action within two months?
context: The anti-bullying It Gets Better Project expanded from a single YouTube video directed to discouraged or suicidal LGBT teens, that within two months drew video responses from hundreds including U.S. President Barack Obama, Vice President Biden, White House staff, and several cabinet secretaries. Similarly, in response to fifteen-year-old Amanda Todd's video "My story: Struggling, bullying, suicide, self-harm", legislative action was undertaken almost immediately after her suicide to study the prevalence of bullying and form a national anti-bullying strategy.

qas: question: How much time does the average person spend watching youtube videos each day?
answers: text: 15 minutes

question: What is the average time an American watches TV in day?
answers: text: four or five hours

question: What was youtube's estimated ads revenue in 2013?
answers: text: 3.7 billion

question: What was youtube's revenue as estimated in 2008?
answers: text: $200 million

question: Youtube's financial records are not reported by who?
answers: text: Google

question: What did Forbes project as YouTube's revenue in January 2008?

question: How much time did visitors spend on YouTube per day in January 2013?

question: What year did YouTube's revenue from its ads program hit 3.6 billion?

question: What year did YouTube double its ad revenue to 5.7 billion dollars?
context: Google does not provide detailed figures for YouTube's running costs, and YouTube's revenues in 2007 were noted as "not material" in a regulatory filing. In June 2008, a Forbes magazine article projected the 2008 revenue at $200 million, noting progress in advertising sales. In January 2012, it was estimated that visitors to YouTube spent an average of 15 minutes a day on the site, in contrast to the four or five hours a day spent by a typical U.S. citizen watching television. In 2012, YouTube's revenue from its ads program was estimated at 3.7 billion. In 2013 it nearly doubled and estimated to hit 5.6 billion dollars according to eMarketer, others estimated 4.7 billion,

qas: question: When did youtube enter a partnership with NBC?
answers: text: June 2006

question: What is the name of the section in youtube that allows major content publishers to post full length movies and episodes?
answers: text: Shows

question: What was the intended purpose of youtube's "shows" section?
answers: text: to create competition

question: When did youtube launch the version of "shows" for the UK?
answers: text: In November 2009

question: In 2010 how many movies did youtube's rental service offer?
answers: text: over 6,000 films

question: Who entered into a partnership during June 2008 with NBC?

question: Who did YouTube reach agreements with in November 2006?

question: What did YouTube launch in June 2009?

question: What did YouTube introduce in November 2010?
context: YouTube entered into a marketing and advertising partnership with NBC in June 2006. In November 2008, YouTube reached an agreement with MGM, Lions Gate Entertainment, and CBS, allowing the companies to post full-length films and television episodes on the site, accompanied by advertisements in a section for US viewers called "Shows". The move was intended to create competition with websites such as Hulu, which features material from NBC, Fox, and Disney. In November 2009, YouTube launched a version of "Shows" available to UK viewers, offering around 4,000 full-length shows from more than 60 partners. In January 2010, YouTube introduced an online film rentals service, which is available only to users in the US, Canada and the UK as of 2010. The service offers over 6,000 films.

qas: question: What was youtube's 2007 partner program based on?
answers: text: AdSense

question: What percentage of revenue does youtube get for ads on "partner program" channels?
answers: text: 45 percent

question: How many people are employed by the partner program?
answers: text: over a million

question: As per estimate in 2013 how much would a partner program member earn with ad revenue off of pre-roll advertising per 1000 views?
answers: text: $2.09

question: How much ad revenue goes to the original uploader of the youtube video if they're in the partner program?
answers: text: 55 percent

question: What did YouTube launch in May 2013?

question: YouTube typically takes 55% of the revenue from where?

question: Who does 45% of the advertising revenue go to?

question: How many members were in the YouTube Partner Program according to TubeMogul in 2007?
context: In May 2007, YouTube launched its Partner Program, a system based on AdSense which allows the uploader of the video to share the revenue produced by advertising on the site. YouTube typically takes 45 percent of the advertising revenue from videos in the Partner Program, with 55 percent going to the uploader. There are over a million members of the YouTube Partner Program. According to TubeMogul, in 2013 a pre-roll advertisement on YouTube (one that is shown before the video starts) cost advertisers on average $7.60 per 1000 views. Usually no more than half of eligible videos have a pre-roll advertisement, due to a lack of interested advertisers. Assuming pre-roll advertisements on half of videos, a YouTube partner would earn 0.5 X $7.60 X 55% = $2.09 per 1000 views in 2013.

qas: question: Where does the majority of youtube's revenue go?
answers: text: to the copyright holders

question: In 2010 what were the estimates for the amount of videos with advertisements uploaded without the copywriter's consent?
answers: text: nearly a third

question: Which major gaming company claimed copyright ad revenue rights against uploaders?
answers: text: Nintendo

question: When did Nintendo finally agree to share ad profits with the original uploaders?
answers: text: February 2015

question: What option besides removing the video does youtube grant copyright holders?
answers: text: have them continue running for revenue

question: What did Nintendo start enforcing in 2015?

question: What did Nintendo agree to share in 2013?

question: How many videos with advertisements were uploaded without the copyright holder's permission in 2013?
context: Much of YouTube's revenue goes to the copyright holders of the videos. In 2010 it was reported that nearly a third of the videos with advertisements were uploaded without permission of the copyright holders. YouTube gives an option for copyright holders to locate and remove their videos or to have them continue running for revenue. In May 2013, Nintendo began enforcing its copyright ownership and claiming the advertising revenue from video creators who posted screenshots of its games. In February 2015, Nintendo agreed to share the revenue with the video creators.

qas: question: What does the message when uploading a video ask the user not to do?
answers: text: violate copyright laws

question: Posting a video without consent of the copyright holder is what according to youtube?
answers: text: unauthorized

question: How many copyright infringements must an account have before the account is deleted?
answers: text: Three

question: Youtube doesn't do what to videos before they're posted?
answers: text: view

question: What kind of notice must a copyright holder issue when trying to take down content?
answers: text: DMCA

question: What does the Online Copyright Liability Limitation Infringement Act allow copyright holders to do?

question: What are YouTube users asked to violate when uploading a video?

question: What Act allows for a DCAM takedown notice?
context: At the time of uploading a video, YouTube users are shown a message asking them not to violate copyright laws. Despite this advice, there are still many unauthorized clips of copyrighted material on YouTube. YouTube does not view videos before they are posted online, and it is left to copyright holders to issue a DMCA takedown notice pursuant to the terms of the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act. Three successful complaints for copyright infringement against a user account will result in the account and all of its uploaded videos being deleted.

qas: question: Companies including Viacom and Mediaset have done what against youtube?
answers: text: filed lawsuits

question: How much did Viacom want in damages in their lawsuit against youtube?
answers: text: $1 billion

question: What does youtube do to prevent losing lawsuits involving copyright infringement?
answers: text: goes far beyond its legal obligations

question: How many unauthorized clips did Viacom allegedly find on youtube that infringed its copyrights?
answers: text: 150,000

question: What organizations has YouTube filed lawsuits against?

question: Who demanded $1.5 billion in damages?

question: Who found that their content had been viewed "an astounding 1 billion times?"
context: Organizations including Viacom, Mediaset, and the English Premier League have filed lawsuits against YouTube, claiming that it has done too little to prevent the uploading of copyrighted material. Viacom, demanding $1 billion in damages, said that it had found more than 150,000 unauthorized clips of its material on YouTube that had been viewed "an astounding 1.5 billion times". YouTube responded by stating that it "goes far beyond its legal obligations in assisting content owners to protect their works".

qas: question: How much data did youtube have to hand over to Viacom as a result of the lawsuit?
answers: text: 12 terabytes

question: Which organization spoke against the courts ruling?
answers: text: Electronic Frontier Foundation

question: What did Viacom plan to do after the ruling in 2010?
answers: text: appeal

question: What happened to Viacom's lawsuit in 2010?
answers: text: rejected in a summary judgment

question: Who was the residing judge of the lawsuit?
answers: text: Louis L. Stanton

question: Who won a court ruling requiring YouTube to hand over 10 terabytes of data?

question: Whose lawsuit was rejected in June 2012?

question: Whose lawsuit was rejected when Judge Stanton L. Louis cited protection under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act?

question: What company did the Millennium Copyright Digital Act end up protecting?
context: During the same court battle, Viacom won a court ruling requiring YouTube to hand over 12 terabytes of data detailing the viewing habits of every user who has watched videos on the site. The decision was criticized by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which called the court ruling "a setback to privacy rights". In June 2010, Viacom's lawsuit against Google was rejected in a summary judgment, with U.S. federal Judge Louis L. Stanton stating that Google was protected by provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Viacom announced its intention to appeal the ruling.

qas: question: In 2007 youtube launched an automated system to detect what?
answers: text: videos that infringe copyright

question: Who was Google's CEO in 2007?
answers: text: Eric Schmidt

question: Why did the CEO of Google think the new software was necessary? 
answers: text: resolving lawsuits

question: What is the name of the system that automatically detects copyright violations?
answers: text: Content ID

question: What does Content ID do if an upload is too close a match to a known copyright material?
answers: text: flags the video

question: Who is YouTube's CEO?

question: What system did Eric Schmidt come up with?

question: When did Google begin trials of Content ID?
context: In June 2007, YouTube began trials of a system for automatic detection of uploaded videos that infringe copyright. Google CEO Eric Schmidt regarded this system as necessary for resolving lawsuits such as the one from Viacom, which alleged that YouTube profited from content that it did not have the right to distribute. The system, which became known as Content ID, creates an ID File for copyrighted audio and video material, and stores it in a database. When a video is uploaded, it is checked against the database, and flags the video as a copyright violation if a match is found.

qas: question: What was the ultimate view of Content ID's performance after a 2009 test?
answers: text: surprisingly resilient

question: As of 2010 what is the maximum length of a video a user can upload given the proper authority?
answers: text: unlimited

question: How does one dispute the ruling of Content ID?
answers: text: fill in a form

question: What happened to the sites rules in Dec. 2010?
answers: text: were modified

question: What did a 2010 independent test find?

question: What is one of the reasons YouTube's rules were modified in December 2009?

question: What company ran the 2009 test of Content ID?
context: An independent test in 2009 uploaded multiple versions of the same song to YouTube, and concluded that while the system was "surprisingly resilient" in finding copyright violations in the audio tracks of videos, it was not infallible. The use of Content ID to remove material automatically has led to controversy in some cases, as the videos have not been checked by a human for fair use. If a YouTube user disagrees with a decision by Content ID, it is possible to fill in a form disputing the decision. YouTube has cited the effectiveness of Content ID as one of the reasons why the site's rules were modified in December 2010 to allow some users to upload videos of unlimited length.

qas: question: Youtube depends on who to flag inappropriate videos?
answers: text: users

question: Who checks the flagged videos for unauthorized content?
answers: text: a YouTube employee

question: The United Kingdom stated it was what with youtube's policies with moderating its content?
answers: text: unimpressed

question: When did the UK speak out against youtube's copyright policies?
answers: text: In July 2008

question: Who of the house of commons spoke out on youtube's policies?
answers: text: the Culture and Media Committee

question: What do uses rely on YouTube to flag?

question: Who said they were impressed in 2008?

question: What did the Media and Culture Committee of the House of Commons of the UK argue?
context: YouTube relies on its users to flag the content of videos as inappropriate, and a YouTube employee will view a flagged video to determine whether it violates the site's terms of service. In July 2008, the Culture and Media Committee of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom stated that it was "unimpressed" with YouTube's system for policing its videos, and argued that "proactive review of content should be standard practice for sites hosting user-generated content". YouTube responded by stating:

qas: question: Most videos enable users to do what
answers: text: leave comments

question: What has attracted negative attention about comments on youtube besides their content?
answers: text: their form

question: Time in 2006 wrote that youtube harnessed the wisdom and what else of humanity?
answers: text: stupidity

question: Which magazine wrote about youtube in a 2009 article on user comments?
answers: text: The Guardian

question: Some of the positive aspects of youtube might be that it provides what on a scale we've never seen before?
answers: text: community and collaboration

question: What did Time say about YouTube in 2009?

question: What did the Guardian say about the comments on YouTube in 2006?

question: What did Time praise in 2009?

question: What can users leave on all videos?
context: Most videos enable users to leave comments, and these have attracted attention for the negative aspects of both their form and content. In 2006, Time praised Web 2.0 for enabling "community and collaboration on a scale never seen before", and added that YouTube "harnesses the stupidity of crowds as well as its wisdom. Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred". The Guardian in 2009 described users' comments on YouTube as:

qas: question: When did youtube first require the user to have a google account before posting a comment?
answers: text: November 6, 2013

question: The changes to the google+ additions allowed uploaders to better moderate and what to comments?
answers: text: block

question: There were better sorting functions put in place in 2013 to make sure what kind of comments appeared on top?
answers: text: more relevant discussions

question: What is youtube co-founder Karim's first name?
answers: text: Jawed

question: How many thumbs down votes did youtube's official statement about the new commenting system get within two days?
answers: text: 20,097

question: What did Google implement on November 13, 2006?

question: What did Karim Jawed post on his YouTube Channel in response to the policy change?

question: What did Melvin Chase note about Google+?

question: What did Melvin Chase say about the discussion forums?
context: On November 6, 2013, Google implemented a new comment system that requires all YouTube users to use a Google+ account in order to comment on videos and making the comment system Google+ oriented. The changes are in large part an attempt to address the frequent criticisms of the quality and tone of YouTube comments. They give creators more power to moderate and block comments, and add new sorting mechanisms to ensure that better, more relevant discussions appear at the top. The new system restored the ability to include URLs in comments, which had previously been removed due to problems with abuse. In response, YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim posted the question "why the fuck do I need a google+ account to comment on a video?" on his YouTube channel to express his negative opinion of the change. The official YouTube announcement received 20,097 "thumbs down" votes and generated more than 32,000 comments in two days. Writing in the Newsday blog Silicon Island, Chase Melvin noted that "Google+ is nowhere near as popular a social media network as Facebook, but it's essentially being forced upon millions of YouTube users who don't want to lose their ability to comment on videos" and "Discussion forums across the Internet are already bursting with outcry against the new comment system". In the same article Melvin goes on to say:

qas: question: youtube is completely what in some places?
answers: text: blocked

question: Why besides limited periods of time would youtube not be allowed in a country?
answers: text: long term standing ban

question: What might happen in a restrictive state even if you do have access to the youtube site itself?
answers: text: specific videos is blocked

question: Why was YouTube completely blocked in all countries?

question: What does YouTube do when a video is banned in all countries?

question: What does YouTube do when the entire is site is blocked in all countries because of one video?
context: In some countries, YouTube is completely blocked, either through a long term standing ban or for more limited periods of time such as during periods of unrest, the run-up to an election, or in response to upcoming political anniversaries. In other countries access to the website as a whole remains open, but access to specific videos is blocked. In cases where the entire site is banned due to one particular video, YouTube will often agree to remove or limit access to that video in order to restore service.

qas: question: How many independent labels did the Merlin Network represent?
answers: text: 20,000

question: What was the percentage of labels youtube had signed contracts with prior to the planned launch date?
answers: text: 90%

question: What was youtube planning on doing to labels it did not reach a deal with?
answers: text: block all music content

question: Why did youtube want to ensure only contractees music was played?
answers: text: to launch the enhanced music experience

question: Which journalistic organization released the reports of youtube's agreement with the Merlin Network?
answers: text: The Financial Times

question: What service launched in May 2014 was a subscription based service?

question: What did Robert Kyncl confirm in May 2014?

question: What reason did Robert Kyncl give in May 2014 for YouTube blocking content labels?

question: What did Kyncl say 100% of the labels had reached?
context: In May 2014, prior to the launch of YouTube's subscription-based Music Key service, the independent music trade organization Worldwide Independent Network alleged that YouTube was using non-negotiable contracts with independent labels that were "undervalued" in comparison to other streaming services, and that YouTube would block all music content from labels who do not reach a deal to be included on the paid service. In a statement to the Financial Times in June 2014, Robert Kyncl confirmed that YouTube would block the content of labels who do not negotiate deals to be included in the paid service "to ensure that all content on the platform is governed by its new contractual terms." Stating that 90% of labels had reached deals, he went on to say that "while we wish that we had [a] 100% success rate, we understand that is not likely an achievable goal and therefore it is our responsibility to our users and the industry to launch the enhanced music experience." The Financial Times later reported that YouTube had reached an aggregate deal with Merlin Network—a trade group representing over 20,000 independent labels, for their inclusion in the service. However, YouTube itself has not confirmed the deal.