The video platform YouTube turns ten
from David Wurm 
on February 16, 2015, 17:04 | Write a comment
Elephants made the start. The first YouTube-Video shows two cozy elephants in the zoo (see video) - after 18 seconds the clip is over. In mid-February 2005, founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen published the site YouTube.com and thus laid the foundation for the video platform. This year will YouTube ten years alt.
some facts about YouTube
- Around 300 hours of video material is uploaded to YouTube every minute.
- More than a billion users visit the platform every month.
- The video with the most clicks last year shows a dog disguised as a spider, frightening passers-by.
The most popular videos on YouTube:
- The most watched YouTube video of all time is "Gangnam Style" by Psy. Youtube had to even his Update counterto be able to display the more than two billion views.
- Facebook is increasingly competing with YouTube. More and more people are watching videos on Facebook, and the social network encourages users to upload their videos directly and not link them from other sites. With 1,3 billion Facebook users, such a growing number of videos could no longer end up on the Internet via YouTube.
