YouTube is a free video sharing website where users upload, view, and share video clips. It has show exceptional growth since establishing in February 2005 by three employees of PayPal. Recently Google announced the purchase of YouTube for approximately 1.6 Billion in Google stock. I have embedded a video of a baby Panda sneezing, very funny to watch to show how easy it is to use YouTube. It is very simple and easy to do so check out YouTube.
Currently over 50,000 videos are uploaded everyday to YouTube making it one of the fastest growing websites around. Over 100 million clips are viewed daily on YouTube and the site has over 20 Million visitors every month. It is extermely popular among the younger generation. Traditional media has taken notice and YouTube has struck deals with NBC and CBS as of late.
Future goals for YouTube include to offer every music video every made on demand and to showcase upcoming film directors. Videos can be searched by tags, grouped into categories, show the number of downloads, and are ranked by stars. YouTube users have gained iconic status on a variety of topics. Videos range from the outrageous, to clips of TV Shows, to the daily lives of many users. How do you use YouTube?
I use youtube to watch funny video's and then share them with my friends. =]
Posted by: Samantha | October 30, 2006 at 10:02 AM
I use Youtube to watch old shows I haven't seen im years, I also use it to view shows that are not out in America and to listen and see new and interesting music.
Posted by: Desmond | October 30, 2006 at 09:56 AM