YouTube is a popular video sharing website. But, on the other hand YouTube has been censored several times in several countries for various reasons.
February 15, 2005
The domain name "YouTube.com" activated, and built the website. YouTube has founded by three former employees of PayPal: Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, according to Internet research firm Hitwise,
May 2005
Creators gives the public a preview on their website.
October 2005
YouTube appears for the first time officially. Similar to many new technology companies, YouTube began as an effort and financed in a small office and cheaper.
November 2005
Sequoia Capital (the venture capital company) invested U.S. $ 3.5 million, in addition, Roelof Botha, partner of the company and former Chief Financial Officer of PayPal, YouTube joined the board of directors.
April 2006
Sequoia invested another U.S. $ 8 million in the company which has experienced rapid growth in popularity and in just the first few months of its existence.
May 2006
YouTube has a market share of 43 percent. The user can load, watch, and share video clips for free. Generally, the videos on YouTube are music clips, films, TV, and video made by the users themselves. The format used in YouTube videos are. flv can be played in a web browser that has Flash Player plug-in.
Summer of 2006
YouTube became one of the fastest growing web sites in the growing World Wide Web, and issued as the second most visited web sites according to Alexa Internet.
July 16, 2006
According to a survey, 100 million clips viewed on YouTube each day, with a total of 65.000 new videos uploaded every 24 hours. According to Nielsen/NetRatings, YouTube is visited by nearly 20 million users each month, with about 44% of the audience was female, and 56% male. The group aged 12 to 17 years is primarily the audience. YouTube advantage in the online video market is very surprising. According to the website Hitwise.com, YouTube controls 64% of the online video market in the United Kingdom.
October 9, 2006
YouTube announced that it will be acquired by Google for $ 1.65 billion in stock. Purchase agreement between Google and YouTube came after YouTube signed three agreements with media companies in an attempt to avoid the court of claims of copyright infringement. YouTube will continue to operate independently, and all employees of the company and the founders will continue working with the company.
November 13, 2006
Transactions to acquire YouTube finished, and are Google's largest acquisition to date.
November 2008
YouTube to reach agreement with MGM, Lions Gate Entertainment and CBS that allows the three companies that include films and television shows in full on the site YouTube, as long as the accompanying advertising, a move to compete with other video sites like Hulu, which display materials NBC, Fox, and Disney.
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