Started by Jawed Karim, Steve Chen, and Chad Hurley, three former Paypal employees, Youtube first launched in December of 2005 and has now become one of the most visited websites in the history of the Internet. It is only 14 years old! Since then, Youtube has changed the world forever. Youtube is a video sharing service where users can create their own profile, make and upload videos, watch others, and like and comment.
In fact, Youtube is now the world's 2nd biggest search engine for more than 1.8 billion people registered on the site to check it daily to watch over 5 billion videos that people have uploaded. Every 60 seconds more than 400 hours of video is being uploaded to Youtube.
A Nike commercial became the first video to receive one million views.
Youtube grew so fast in the first year it was created that owners Chen and Hurley sold Youtube to Google for $1.65 billion in November of 2006.
Moreover, people have abandoned traditional TV for Youtube because they can filter out videos that have interest to them. For example, makeup tutorials or a favorite movie or how to play fortnite. Not only have people ditched cable, but people have quit their jobs to start a career on Youtube.
People of all ages have dropped everything to start a career on Youtube and hope for the best. Most bloggers start making money with Google Adsense on their blogs. Youtube shares 55% of its ad revenue with video creators and books an average of $7.60 per 1,000 views. When you reach 10,000 subscribers, you can expect $100 - $300 per sponsorship, and you can expect $100+ from advertisements.
The tricky part is you can only earn income if someone clicks an ad or watches it for 30 seconds. If your video gets ten million views but nobody watches or click the ads, you don'tmake any money.
In addition, a good amount of people have become famous from Youtube. At 12, Justin Bieber uploaded home videos of him singing. It started with 100 views and the views increased by the hour. At 15, Usher found his videos and signed Bieber to Island Def Jam Recordings.
From then on, his life changed forever. He wasn't some random, awkward teenager anymore; Bieber had thousands of teen girls screaming for him and made a top 20 song on Billboard's top 100 list.
In all, Youtube has increasingly grown and will continue to progress and grow. It has changed people's lives forever and will carry on the impact it has already made for billions.
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