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YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, who was previously PayPal's first employee. Hurley studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, while Chen and Karim studied computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

According to repeated stories published in the media, Hurley and Chen developed the YouTube idea in the first few months of 2005 after having trouble sharing a dinner party video at Chen's apartment in San Francisco. Karim did not come to the party and refused the party ever happened, while Chen commented that the idea of ​​YouTube popped after the binge "seems to be reinforced by a marketing method centered on creating stories that consumers can easily digest."

YouTube started as a pioneering technology company funded by a $ 11.5 million investment from Sequoia Capital between November 2005 and April 2006. YouTube's first office is located above a pizzeria and a Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California. The domain name www.youtube.com was active on February 14, 2005 and the site was developed in the following months.

The first video on YouTube is titled Me at the zoo. This video features Jawed Karim's co-founder in the San Diego Zoo. This video was uploaded on April 23, 2005 and still exists today on this site.
YouTube offered a beta test in May 2005, six months before its official launch in November 2005. The site's growth skyrocketed and in July 2006, the company announced that more than 65,000 videos were uploaded daily and the site received 100 million video visits per day.

 According to data compiled by comScore's market research company, YouTube is the premier online video provider in the United States with 43 percent market share and over 14 billion videos watched in May 2010. YouTube says that around 60 hours of video are uploaded every minute and three-quarters The material comes from outside the US The site receives eight hundred million unique visits each month. It is estimated that in 2007 YouTube consumed the same big band as the entire Internet in 2000. [22] Alexa puts YouTube as the third most visited site on the Internet, after Google and Facebook.

The selection of the name www.youtube.com raises a problem with a similarly named site, www.utube.com. The site's owner, Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment, filed a lawsuit against YouTube in November 2006 after the site was flooded with visitors looking to YouTube. Universal Tube has since changed its site name to www.utubeonline.com. In October 2006, Google Inc. Announced that it had purchased YouTube for $ 1.65 billion in stock. This agreement was concluded on November 13, 2006. Google did not provide detailed information on YouTube's operating costs and its 2007 YouTube revenue was written "immaterial" in compulsory forms. In June 2008 an article in Forbes magazine estimated that YouTube revenue in 2008 reached $ 200 million after observing the progress of its advertising sales. The average YouTube visitor spends 15 minutes a day watching videos there, in contrast to the 4-5 hours a day that ordinary Americans spend watching television.

YouTube explored marketing and advertising cooperation with NBC in June 2006. In November 2008 YouTube made an agreement with MGM, Lions Gate Entertainment and CBS, which allowed them to upload full-length movies and television episodes to the site, along with audience-specific ad boxes US named "Shows". This action aims to create competition with websites like Hulu, which store material impressions from NBC, Fox, and Disney. In November 2009, YouTube launched "Shows" for audiences in the United Kingdom and offered about 4,000 full-length shows from 60 of its partners. In January 2010, YouTube introduced an online movie rental service, [33] currently only available to users in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. This service offers more than 6,000 movies.

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