Youtube

*...Youtube- Video sharing site...*

Founded by:

• Ched Hurley
• Steve Chen
• Jawed karim

Dates and Figures

• Founded in 14 February , 2005
• —Launched its product in may 2005.
• Got their first funding of $3.5mn from sucoia capital in October 2005.
• Got the second phase of funding  of $ucoia capital in April 2006
• Acquired by Google in 1.65bn in October 2006.

Facts about Youtube..

• —Fastest growing website in internet industry.
• —On average 100mn videos streamed per day.
• 65,000 videos are uploaded daily.
• Youtube has 45 terabytes =45,000 GB of videos
• More then 13 million new users every month.
• —An average user spends 30 min on Youtube
• —YouTube is localized in 25 countries across 43 languages
• —The first video has received over 4.8 million views.
• —he average user spends 5 hours and 50 minutes per month (not as much as Facebook)
• —The number of advertisers using display ads on YouTube increased by 1,000% in the last year
• —10% of YouTube’s videos are available in HD