YouTube is one of the most popular video hosting

The most popular video hosting

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. YouTube allows users
to upload, view, rate, share, add to favorites, report, comment on videos, and subscribe to other users. Available content includes video clips, TV show clips, music videos, short and documentary films, audio recordings, movie trailers, live streams, and other content such as video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos.

Most of the content on YouTube is uploaded by individuals, but media corporations including CBS, the BBC, Vevo, and Hulu offer some of their material via YouTube as part of the YouTube partnership program.

YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, who were
all early employees of PayPal.They used the technology Flash Video (FLV), allowing you to get a relatively good quality of recording with a small amount of data transmitted.The project became a good entertainment tool, and outstripped the popularity of the social network MySpace.


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 can still be viewed on the site.

The site grew rapidly and, in July 2006, the company
announced that more than 65,000 new videos were being uploaded every day, and that the site was receiving 100 million video views per day.

November 13, 2007, YouTube launched the Russian version of the portal, which opened with a clip of Peter Nalitch.

The name of the YouTube project was born from a pun: in English, Boob Tube is a slang term for a TV.

It is impossible to know everything about YouTube: the project is too extensive. But some facts from his history are rather curious.
1. The programming language in which YouTube is written is Python.
2. Initially, the project was supposed to be called Tune In Hook Up, then the creators abandoned this idea.
3. Video hosting was conceived as a dating project. People were supposed to get to know each other through videos. Later, it was decided not to limit its subject to acquaintances.

Application today
Now there are almost no people who do not know what YouTube is. YouTube is a video hosting service whose audience includes various age and social groups. Almost everyone uses it: both companies who want to promote their projects and bloggers who want to gain an audience think about the YouTube channel. Thanks to Google's ranking algorithms, video hosting has also become the second most popular search engine in the world. Now this is not just a project for sharing videos: today YouTube is also a powerful channel for promoting your own brand. Wide advertising opportunities, smart recommendation algorithms and incredible mass character make it so.

I mainly use YouTube to watch science, non-fiction, documentaries and occasionally entertainment videos.