Why YouTube was created

YouTube is one of the world's most popular video-sharing websites. Approximately 500 hours of video are submitted to YouTube every minute, and more than 4 billion hours of video are seen each month.

Since its establishment in 2005, YouTube has evolved from a video-sharing site for amateurs to a platform for creative content.

YouTube was launched in 2005. It was founded by three PayPal employees: Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, who ran the company from an office above a small restaurant in San Mateo.

It has also made it possible for a brand-new career to emerge: that of YouTube video creator, which may be a potentially profitable job for some YouTubers all over the world.

The original purpose of YouTube?

YouTube was developed with the intention of allowing anybody to upload any video material they wanted. Users were expected to be able to upload, distribute, and watch content without limitations on the site.

It has subsequently evolved to become one of the world's most popular video distribution platforms. Many content creators nowadays make a reasonable profit by selling ad space before or during the creation of videos that they then submit to the site.

Thanks to programs such as YouTube's Partner Program and Google's AdSense, a select few people can genuinely make a living as YouTubers.

How YouTube was created

The domain name www.youtube.com  was activated on February 14, 2005, and the website was developed over the subsequent months.

The first YouTube video, titled ‘Me at the zoo’, shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. The video was uploaded on April 23, 2005, and you can still view it on the site.

YouTube was sold one year after its creation, for 1.65 billion dollars. It is hard to believe it has been so long since the first video was uploaded.

How did YouTube get its name?

Unlike many other corporate names, YouTube's is quite self-explanatory. The "You" signifies that the material is user-generated, meaning it was made by individual users rather than the site itself, and the "Tube" is a nod to an older, more descriptive name for television.

Today, the site has surpassed one billion users and has established itself as the Internet's de facto video sharing platform.