a pioneering project within the web age
the rise and rise of YouTube is one of
the richest success stories ever told
and already a hundred million videos are
viewed on YouTube every day in 2015 the
site hits its tenth birthday so welcome
to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
YouTube milestones for this list we’ve
looked at the defining moments of
YouTube’s history however we will not be
looking at the best most popular or most
defining videos to feature on the site
for straight-up world-famous web videos
be sure to check out our alternative
lists such as the top 10 viral videos
and another top 10 viral videos number
10 from humble beginnings we saw the
power of simplifying a process and
giving everyone a solution you gotta
start somewhere and YouTube started here
initially founded by Chad Hurley Steve
Chen and Javed Karim the domain name
www.youtube.com/watch v weeks of site
development ensued until the now iconic
almost 20-second clip titled me at the
zoo was uploaded to the site on April
23rd of the same year cool thing about
these guys thing is
a really really really long
from a modest movie featuring co-founder
Kareem unenthusiastically describing the
elephants of the San Diego Zoo the
YouTube curtain was quietly raised
number nine hello vivo everyday I’m
shuffling
one of the most easily accessible and
heavily used websites on the Internet
the promotional potential of YouTube is
arguably second to none
music sharing company vivo saw that
potential and quickly made use of the
YouTube Partnership Program in order to
work within the site I came in
a music sharing service offering videos
from two of the big three major record
labels within one button click of its
user VEVO quickly became a major player
in the music industry
and I’ll write your name number 8 the
big 1 billion in March 2013
YouTube further confirmed itself as one
of the world’s most influential entities
as it surpassed a quite incredible 1
billion active users per month in the
ever escalating competition to become
the biggest and best media sharing
website on the planet a stats such as
that is hugely significant
at that time accounting for almost one
in two Internet users the company’s
popularity showed no signs of slowing
down
with its business potential literally
growing by the second one cutting I’m
starvin a new CEO her name is Susan
Wojcicki and she’s one of the most
powerful women in tech in February 2014
nine years after YouTube’s initial
launch Susan Wojcicki took over as CEO
of the company sixteen years ago she and
her husband rented their garage to two
young computer scientists Sergey Brin
and Larry Page and there they founded
Google a woman once described by Adweek
as the most important person in
advertising
she was hugely responsible for the
colossal rise of Google and was brought
in to make one of the world’s biggest
businesses even bigger employing a focus
on offline promotions and advertising
Wojcicki is aiming to make YouTube
mightier than all other Internet brands
and with her track record she’ll
probably succeed you know you’re only as
good as your team is and your job is to
really hire the experts and to set them
up and give them the right direction and
the right resources to make that happen
number six one hundred million dollars
worth of content dr. Bamba nation of the
web modes of Narda corn
propelled by the YouTube original
channel initiative the site made its
first attempts to create and distribute
its own version of television at the
beginning of the 2010s
intended as a kickstart for a Google TV
style brand the venture had plenty of
high-profile backers and participants
including Madonna Tony Hawk Ashton
Kutcher and Shaquille O’Neal after
stuttering a little however the concept
is due to be rethought in 2015 so watch
this space
I just got some change over here you
know much money Canada money
number five multi-channel networks good
for multiples black for stones yellow
for distance and white when you’re in a
bar of course not every channel is able
to obtain direct partner level status
with YouTube itself but there are
alternative ways and means of making it
big multi channel networks or MC ends
began emerging in the latter half of the
2000s as companies sought to
cross-promote smaller channels into
something bigger
machinima was and is an especially
leading light in this field combining
their own original content with the work
of others I think I should consult my
friend about what to do with you next
hey Deathstroke critics will question
the value of MC ends but there’s no
denying they helped develop some of
YouTube’s biggest stars
well I’m sure like everyone else mr.
Carver will eventually discover that
you’re nothing more than a cancerous
polyp on the world’s asshole surely the
consequences of being farmed in that
toxic waste dump you call a uterus
number four there’s an app for that no
like a search for new video while I’m
still watching a video as with anything
else working within the mobile
technology age YouTube has its own app
coming to the fore with the celebrated
iPhone 5 and iOS 6 operating system
after the mobile version of the site was
relaunched in 2010 it’s now one of the
most often used apps across a variety of
platforms
besides developing on handheld devices
in 2009 YouTube also created a version
of itself for the PlayStation 3 Nintendo
Wii and Xbox 360 all media is good media
to these guys
number three the Viacom incident the
documents support Viacom’s claimed that
YouTube was essentially a bootlegging
site that posted a he legal content in
an effort to boost traffic and sell
YouTube to the highest bidder you might
not see the scars but YouTube has
suffered its fair share of bumps and
scrapes along its journey to success
most notably having to defend itself
from big media companies like Viacom and
NBC Universal in both the court of
public opinion and the legal courts it’s
wrong to steal a 30-cent
pack of gum and it’s a felony to steal a
$30,000 car but a thirty million dollar
movie is pirated and put up on the
internet and people don’t blink an eye
in 2007 Viacom filed its own 1 billion
dollar lawsuit against Google and
YouTube as it believed that the site was
committing massive copyright
infringement and it’s really it’s it’s
looking it’s a slap in the face of the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act if you
ask me Viacom found that there existed
over 150,000 Viacom owned clips on the
site which had been viewed over 1.5
billion times
despite the heavy statistics however
YouTube emerged out of the scuffle
victorious twice with an undisclosed
settlement ultimately settling the case
our legal recourse is generally asking
nicely asking nicely asking nicely and
it just doesn’t help the damage is done
and we I think need real legitimate
pathways to change number two Content ID
see you the lag 2007 in general was a
big year for YouTube as it firmly
established itself as the home of the
viral video all you people care about
readers and making money all over the
first semi-transparent advertising
banners appeared in 2007 visible across
the lower 20% of a clip but the most
significant move made by YouTube that
year was the introduction of Content ID
inherently the Content ID system works
well but when you strip away revenue
from the people who play by the rules
follow the law and go through your
dispute system you’re driving away
creative people that make YouTube and
it’s wonderful community possible a
system put in place to further protect
the company against the Viacom incident
and similar ones should they arise I’m
getting flagged for music that is
playing from the game in the background
which is a part of the game
demonstrating the game what what there
it scans every piece of uploaded content
for copyright infringement and
potentially prevents the wrongdoers from
ever making it to air this video
contains content from gorilla who has
blocked it on copyright goals what the
hell is that before we unveil our number
one pick here are a few honorable
mentions
I don’t think people have changed that
much in thousands of years and I think
that they’re still fundamentally driven
by the same internal needs the same
desires in the same kind of folks
la la tis true Google Italia but due to
mommy Sylla person picked up luma Vito
mooned
number one Google’s great investment
more than a success YouTube’s become a
social phenomenon nearly half of all the
videos viewed online or watched on
YouTube within a year of its creation
YouTube had escalated into one of the
world’s most influential brands a rapid
rise the heights would only get heavier
as the mighty Google purchased the site
in 2006 for 1.65 billion dollars and we
just want to say thank you today we have
some exciting news for you we’ve been
acquired by Google yeah thanks thanks to
every one of you guys that have been
contributing to YouTube the community an
eye-watering lee sizeable investment the
subsequent profits dwarf that initial
sum into almost insignificance
from this point forward YouTube became
ever-present in the upper echelons of
the internet age a snowball had been set
in motion and it’s been lucrative Lee
Rowling ever since in a business sense
Google won big do you agree with our
list you won’t like me when I’m angry
which YouTube milestone do you think is
most important
for more era-defining top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com it’s just great like I
just want to scroll constantly back and
forth to it
the rise and rise of YouTube is one of
the richest success stories ever told
and already a hundred million videos are
viewed on YouTube every day in 2015 the
site hits its tenth birthday so welcome
to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
YouTube milestones for this list we’ve
looked at the defining moments of
YouTube’s history however we will not be
looking at the best most popular or most
defining videos to feature on the site
for straight-up world-famous web videos
be sure to check out our alternative
lists such as the top 10 viral videos
and another top 10 viral videos number
10 from humble beginnings we saw the
power of simplifying a process and
giving everyone a solution you gotta
start somewhere and YouTube started here
initially founded by Chad Hurley Steve
Chen and Javed Karim the domain name
www.youtube.com/watch v weeks of site
development ensued until the now iconic
almost 20-second clip titled me at the
zoo was uploaded to the site on April
23rd of the same year cool thing about
these guys thing is
a really really really long
from a modest movie featuring co-founder
Kareem unenthusiastically describing the
elephants of the San Diego Zoo the
YouTube curtain was quietly raised
number nine hello vivo everyday I’m
shuffling
one of the most easily accessible and
heavily used websites on the Internet
the promotional potential of YouTube is
arguably second to none
music sharing company vivo saw that
potential and quickly made use of the
YouTube Partnership Program in order to
work within the site I came in
a music sharing service offering videos
from two of the big three major record
labels within one button click of its
user VEVO quickly became a major player
in the music industry
and I’ll write your name number 8 the
big 1 billion in March 2013
YouTube further confirmed itself as one
of the world’s most influential entities
as it surpassed a quite incredible 1
billion active users per month in the
ever escalating competition to become
the biggest and best media sharing
website on the planet a stats such as
that is hugely significant
at that time accounting for almost one
in two Internet users the company’s
popularity showed no signs of slowing
down
with its business potential literally
growing by the second one cutting I’m
starvin a new CEO her name is Susan
Wojcicki and she’s one of the most
powerful women in tech in February 2014
nine years after YouTube’s initial
launch Susan Wojcicki took over as CEO
of the company sixteen years ago she and
her husband rented their garage to two
young computer scientists Sergey Brin
and Larry Page and there they founded
Google a woman once described by Adweek
as the most important person in
advertising
she was hugely responsible for the
colossal rise of Google and was brought
in to make one of the world’s biggest
businesses even bigger employing a focus
on offline promotions and advertising
Wojcicki is aiming to make YouTube
mightier than all other Internet brands
and with her track record she’ll
probably succeed you know you’re only as
good as your team is and your job is to
really hire the experts and to set them
up and give them the right direction and
the right resources to make that happen
number six one hundred million dollars
worth of content dr. Bamba nation of the
web modes of Narda corn
propelled by the YouTube original
channel initiative the site made its
first attempts to create and distribute
its own version of television at the
beginning of the 2010s
intended as a kickstart for a Google TV
style brand the venture had plenty of
high-profile backers and participants
including Madonna Tony Hawk Ashton
Kutcher and Shaquille O’Neal after
stuttering a little however the concept
is due to be rethought in 2015 so watch
this space
I just got some change over here you
know much money Canada money
number five multi-channel networks good
for multiples black for stones yellow
for distance and white when you’re in a
bar of course not every channel is able
to obtain direct partner level status
with YouTube itself but there are
alternative ways and means of making it
big multi channel networks or MC ends
began emerging in the latter half of the
2000s as companies sought to
cross-promote smaller channels into
something bigger
machinima was and is an especially
leading light in this field combining
their own original content with the work
of others I think I should consult my
friend about what to do with you next
hey Deathstroke critics will question
the value of MC ends but there’s no
denying they helped develop some of
YouTube’s biggest stars
well I’m sure like everyone else mr.
Carver will eventually discover that
you’re nothing more than a cancerous
polyp on the world’s asshole surely the
consequences of being farmed in that
toxic waste dump you call a uterus
number four there’s an app for that no
like a search for new video while I’m
still watching a video as with anything
else working within the mobile
technology age YouTube has its own app
coming to the fore with the celebrated
iPhone 5 and iOS 6 operating system
after the mobile version of the site was
relaunched in 2010 it’s now one of the
most often used apps across a variety of
platforms
besides developing on handheld devices
in 2009 YouTube also created a version
of itself for the PlayStation 3 Nintendo
Wii and Xbox 360 all media is good media
to these guys
number three the Viacom incident the
documents support Viacom’s claimed that
YouTube was essentially a bootlegging
site that posted a he legal content in
an effort to boost traffic and sell
YouTube to the highest bidder you might
not see the scars but YouTube has
suffered its fair share of bumps and
scrapes along its journey to success
most notably having to defend itself
from big media companies like Viacom and
NBC Universal in both the court of
public opinion and the legal courts it’s
wrong to steal a 30-cent
pack of gum and it’s a felony to steal a
$30,000 car but a thirty million dollar
movie is pirated and put up on the
internet and people don’t blink an eye
in 2007 Viacom filed its own 1 billion
dollar lawsuit against Google and
YouTube as it believed that the site was
committing massive copyright
infringement and it’s really it’s it’s
looking it’s a slap in the face of the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act if you
ask me Viacom found that there existed
over 150,000 Viacom owned clips on the
site which had been viewed over 1.5
billion times
despite the heavy statistics however
YouTube emerged out of the scuffle
victorious twice with an undisclosed
settlement ultimately settling the case
our legal recourse is generally asking
nicely asking nicely asking nicely and
it just doesn’t help the damage is done
and we I think need real legitimate
pathways to change number two Content ID
see you the lag 2007 in general was a
big year for YouTube as it firmly
established itself as the home of the
viral video all you people care about
readers and making money all over the
first semi-transparent advertising
banners appeared in 2007 visible across
the lower 20% of a clip but the most
significant move made by YouTube that
year was the introduction of Content ID
inherently the Content ID system works
well but when you strip away revenue
from the people who play by the rules
follow the law and go through your
dispute system you’re driving away
creative people that make YouTube and
it’s wonderful community possible a
system put in place to further protect
the company against the Viacom incident
and similar ones should they arise I’m
getting flagged for music that is
playing from the game in the background
which is a part of the game
demonstrating the game what what there
it scans every piece of uploaded content
for copyright infringement and
potentially prevents the wrongdoers from
ever making it to air this video
contains content from gorilla who has
blocked it on copyright goals what the
hell is that before we unveil our number
one pick here are a few honorable
mentions
I don’t think people have changed that
much in thousands of years and I think
that they’re still fundamentally driven
by the same internal needs the same
desires in the same kind of folks
la la tis true Google Italia but due to
mommy Sylla person picked up luma Vito
mooned
number one Google’s great investment
more than a success YouTube’s become a
social phenomenon nearly half of all the
videos viewed online or watched on
YouTube within a year of its creation
YouTube had escalated into one of the
world’s most influential brands a rapid
rise the heights would only get heavier
as the mighty Google purchased the site
in 2006 for 1.65 billion dollars and we
just want to say thank you today we have
some exciting news for you we’ve been
acquired by Google yeah thanks thanks to
every one of you guys that have been
contributing to YouTube the community an
eye-watering lee sizeable investment the
subsequent profits dwarf that initial
sum into almost insignificance
from this point forward YouTube became
ever-present in the upper echelons of
the internet age a snowball had been set
in motion and it’s been lucrative Lee
Rowling ever since in a business sense
Google won big do you agree with our
list you won’t like me when I’m angry
which YouTube milestone do you think is
most important
for more era-defining top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com it’s just great like I
just want to scroll constantly back and
forth to it
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