Youtube

**YouTube** is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries.

### History

#### Pre-2010

YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, when they worked for PayPal. Prior to working for PayPal, Hurley studied design at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania; Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. YouTube's initial headquarters was above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California.

During the summer of 2006, YouTube was one of the fastest growing sites on the World Wide Web, hosting more than 65,000 new video uploads. The site delivered an average of 100 million video views per day in July. It was ranked the fifth-most-popular website on Alexa, far out-pacing even MySpace's rate of growth. The website averaged nearly 20 million visitors per month according to Nielsen/NetRatings, with around 44% female and 56% male visitors. The 12- to 17-year-old age group was dominant. YouTube's pre-eminence in the online market was substantial. According to the website Hitwise.com, YouTube commanded up to 64% of the UK online video market

#### Post-2010

In late 2011 and early 2012, YouTube launched over 100 "premium" or "original" channels. It was reported the initiative cost $100 million. Two years later, in November 2013, it was documented that the landing page of the original channels became a 404 error page. Despite this, original channels such as SourceFed and Crash Course were able to become successful.

In March 2013, the number of unique users visiting YouTube every month reached 1 billion. In the same year, YouTube continued to reach out to mainstream media, launching YouTube Comedy Week and the YouTube Music Awards. Both events were met with negative to mixed reception. In November 2013, YouTube's own YouTube channel had surpassed Felix Kjellberg's PewDiePie channel to become the most subscribed channel on the website. This was due to auto-suggesting new users to subscribe to the channel upon registration.

#### 2020s

##### **Youtuber Golden Age (2021-2031)**

**The Youtube Golden Age** was a period of renaissance occurred all across the website, after the controversial demonetization programme was repealed and replaced with a more manual, but smaller version, most notable was of channel growth, where many new and smaller YouTubers started to gain the ranks of previously dominate channels, such as multi-million dollar vloggers, Top 10 listers, and Late Night Show with \_\_\_\_\_ channels.

Some notable creators where Jaiden Animations, who managed to help revive the declining animation industry on Youtube, Ralph Sepe and Bobby Burns, who were known for their entertaining and non-mainstream movie and TV review channels, CreepsMcPasta, who established on the second most popular genre on Youtube, Storytelling, after Gaming, IddubbbzTV, H3h3productions, and Internet Comment Etiquette, who not only managed to flourish on Youtube due to their creative comedic videos, but their other ventures into entertainment, with H3h3 selling their 'Teddy Fresh' clothes, and Internet Comment Etiquette staring at many Ted-Ed Talks.