{"id":8416,"date":"2022-07-13T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/?p=8416"},"modified":"2022-07-13T06:00:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T06:00:10","slug":"when-was-youtube-invented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/when-was-youtube-invented","title":{"rendered":"When Was YouTube Invented?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_43 counter-flat ez-toc-counter ez-toc-light-blue ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69e6b753a5ea2\" class=\"cssicon\"><span style=\"display: flex;align-items: center;width: 35px;height: 30px;justify-content: center;direction:ltr;\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/label><label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69e6b753a5ea2\"  class=\"cssiconcheckbox\">1<\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69e6b753a5ea2\" ><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/when-was-youtube-invented\/#When_Was_YouTube_Invented\" title=\"When Was YouTube Invented?\">When Was YouTube Invented?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/when-was-youtube-invented\/#YouTube_was_founded_on_14_February_2005\" title=\"YouTube was founded on 14 February 2005\">YouTube was founded on 14 February 2005<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/when-was-youtube-invented\/#Jawed_Karim\" title=\"Jawed Karim\">Jawed Karim<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/when-was-youtube-invented\/#Steve_Chen\" title=\"Steve Chen\">Steve Chen<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/when-was-youtube-invented\/#Chad_Hurley\" title=\"Chad Hurley\">Chad Hurley<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"When_Was_YouTube_Invented\"><\/span>When Was YouTube Invented?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/KhZEmmL.jpg\" alt=\"when was youtube invented\"> <\/p>\n<p>When was YouTube invented? In this article we&#8217;ll examine the history of YouTube and the three founders who were responsible for creating it. Steve Chen, Jawed Karim, and Chad Hurley all contributed to its success. But who created it? What was the reason that YouTube became the largest social media website in the world? And who will the next founder be? Read on to find out. After Google Search, YouTube has become the second most popular website on the Internet.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"YouTube_was_founded_on_14_February_2005\"><\/span>YouTube was founded on 14 February 2005<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>YouTube is a video sharing website that was founded on 14 February 2005. The company is owned by Google and has over 1 billion monthly users. Users watch over 1 billion hours of video a day and upload 500 hours a minute. The founders of YouTube had no idea how popular their video-sharing website would become. Since it is so accessible, people from all over the world can access YouTube. In addition, users can easily link their YouTube videos to other platforms.<\/p>\n<p>YouTube&#8217;s rapid growth led to numerous challenges and difficulties. The site consumed more bandwidth than the entire Internet in 2000. YouTube reached a market share of over 43% by 2010. It had over 14 billion video views in 2010. In 2007, YouTube launched video advertisements. While YouTube&#8217;s founder Chad Hurley initially rejected these, he eventually approved pre-roll ads. By the end of 2010, YouTube was the leading online video uploading website and the top film platform.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Jawed_Karim\"><\/span>Jawed Karim<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>YouTube is an online video sharing platform, which was created by German-American internet businessman Jawed Karim. Jawed Karim and Steve Chen met when both were interns at PayPal. Jawed was also a member of the board of directors for PayPal. He later went on to co-found the company with Chad Hurley, and the two developed YouTube together. Jawed&#8217;s first video, &#8216;Me at the zoo,&#8217; has been viewed more than 130 million times, and is now a subsidiary of Google.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to co-founding YouTube, Jawed Karim also co-founded YVentures. The venture capital firm had invested in companies such as Airbnb, Reddit, Palantir, Eventbrite, and others. Despite this success, Jawed Karim hasn&#8217;t been active on social media and hasn&#8217;t made any appearances in public since the mid-2000s.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Steve_Chen\"><\/span>Steve Chen<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The founder of YouTube, Steve Chen, is a former PayPal executive. Chen co-founded the video sharing website in 2005 with Jawed Karim and Chad Hurley. The site quickly became the fastest growing website in history, with over 100 million video clips viewed each day. Chen&#8217;s company has since gone on to become the largest provider of online video in the U.S., generating more than $1 billion in revenue in just three years.<\/p>\n<p>Chen originally worked at PayPal, where he honed his software engineering skills. He eventually joined other Silicon Valley tech companies like Google and founded YouTube with Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. Chen then received several million in Google shares when the company was sold to Google in 2006. After the YouTube acquisition, Chen continued to work for the company until 2009, at which point he sold his shares to Google. However, he is no longer a part of the company, and has moved onto other ventures.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Chad_Hurley\"><\/span>Chad Hurley<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Chad Hurley is the co-founder and former CEO of YouTube, the world&#8217;s most popular video sharing website. In fact, it&#8217;s the third most-visited website in the world. Hurley was named 28th on Business 2.0&#8217;s list of the 50 most influential people of 2006. Before founding YouTube, he worked in the PayPal division as a designer. He later went on to work with Steve Chen and Jawed Karim to create the logo for the video site.<\/p>\n<p>The two entrepreneurs met while working at PayPal. The two entrepreneurs had an idea to create a video sharing website after watching the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show and the Indian Ocean earthquake. Hurley and Chen also cited the show &#8220;Hot or Not&#8221; as inspiration for creating the website. They then spent the rest of the night shooting videos and talking to friends and co-workers. YouTube is now a billion-dollar business, but its humble origins date back to a dinner party in 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Was YouTube Invented? When was YouTube invented? In this article we&#8217;ll examine the history of YouTube and the three founders who were responsible for creating it. Steve Chen, Jawed Karim, and Chad Hurley all contributed to its success. But who created it? 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