The History of YouTube


YouTube, now one of the most popular websites in the world, hosting billions of videos and playing more than 2 billion videos every day was founded by three PayPal employees, Chad HurleySteve Chen and Jawed Karim, in April 2005.Later it was sold to Google  for the sum of USD1.65 billion.

YouTube History

Here is an interesting infographic explaining the complete History of YouTube till date

YouTube-History

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  1. Taaza Classifieds

    Nov 09. 2010

    During the summer of 2006, YouTube was one of the fastest growing websites on the Web, and was ranked the 5th most popular website on Alexa, far out pacing even MySpace’s rate of growth.

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  2. Today there are so many website that similar to Youtube like Dailymotion and Metacafe. Me sometime like to share thing on Youtube mostly funny stuff ;)
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