YouTube began in 2005 above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California. Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim who were former employees of PayPal, came together and invented a video website unlike any before it. They chose the domain name “You” tube because it was a website designed for “you”, everyday people, to post videos about almost anything they wanted. The partners offered a public preview of the site a few months before it was supposed to launch. YouTube was started by an angel-funded group in a garage. An angel funded group, or an angel investor is someone who puts money into a business start-up. Sequoia Capital invested 3.5 million dollars into YouTube in November. Chad, Steve, and Chen’s former boss at PayPal decided to get on the board of directors for YouTube. YouTube experienced very popular growth and because of this, Sequoia invested another 8 million dollars into the web site. YouTube was one of the fastest growing web sites and in its first summer experienced 65,000 video uploads a day and over 100 million video views. It even outranked Myspace’s growth. The website averaged nearly 20 million visits every month. It was visited mostly by adolescents from ages 12-17. In 2006 YouTube was trying to escape the threat of being sued for copyright-infringement when Google bought them. Google purchased YouTube for 1.65 billion dollars. It is also said, Google and YouTube were in competition with each other so Google bought them out. YouTube continued to grow in 2007, using as much bandwidth as the entire
Stephanie Kil English 111-001M FWD3-FD December 5, 2012 YouTube can be a Tremendous Tool for the Business Realm Unless you’ve been living in a dark cavern far away from internet with homo-sapiens for the past few years, you’ve no doubt heard of YouTube, the video-sharing website. YouTube lets anyone with a computer and internet posts any kind of videos online. YouTube is an entertaining and popular website, “continuously ranking in the top five of all sites on the Web with more than 130 million…
to research my topic are Scribd (www.scribd.com), the National Counterterrorism Center (www.nctc.gov/site/index.html), LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com) and Youtube (www.youtube.com). Scribed is an informational website that contains an online digital library containing a collection of e-books, written works, documents, court filings and academic papers with Stanford University Press and Harvard University Press now associated with the site. It also allows members to upload and share documents with one…
YouTube Starlet Gets Charged With Lawsuit Christopher Cruz Law 421 Luke Martin July 24, 2014 YOUTUBE STARLET GETS CHARGED WITH LAWSUIT ARTICLE SYNOPSIS In today’s society, the use of the internet has quickly taken center stage, more so than years prior. Often, granting internet users the openness to create and replicate ideas and content, for their own personal use. However, with the freedom granted in the world of the internet, many can quickly become victim to creating and replicating too…
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Chrome Tips: Apps and Extensions Using this document online instead of on paper? Then use [Ctrl]+F and type a word to search for the word instead of using your eyes... in many cases it’s faster! Any underlined words below are clickable links for more information. What ARE apps and extensions ? Apps and extensions are features or programs that you can essentially “add” to customize your Chrome experience. You'll be amazed at the number of free apps/extensions available for school (and for fun…
and provided information of all sorts available to students all over the world. How many times have a teacher provided a YouTube clip to help enforce a lecture? How many times have someone typed in YouTube just to learn about something; whether it may be how to tie a tie or an explanation of the atoms and molecules for a science project? Computers provide visuals just like YouTube or even Power Point or Excel to help make information easier to understand. Besides, not only are computers beneficial…
Facing the technology wave and penetration rate of the Internet, the position of tradition media was challenged slightly, such as newspaper and other paper media, it cause people have already been used to get information from the Internet. When reader give up read books instant for smart mobile phone or tablet personal computer and those abandon read paper news in place of free online news. In addition, a great deal people consider newspaper is not environmentally friendly. Newspaper seem to lost existence…
Case Study - UnME Jeans: Branding in Web 2.0 ! By James Johnson BUS5629 - Integrated Internet Strategies Florida Institute of Technology Dr. Theresa Kraft November 17th, 2013 ! ! ! ! UnME Jeans Case Study Analysis Page 2 Summary UnME Jeans was a rising star in the world of junior denim fashion. The UnME brand focused on the individuality of teenage girls who coveted their designer-style jeans that featured glitter, jewels, and various forms of metalwork. UnME jeans were sold in…
internet. Due to the smart creation of these types of advertisement which contain effective aspects including the story for video ads, color of graphic, and animation, published on appropriate websites, online users find these ads very fascinating. This paper aims to show that these attributions of digital graphic advertisements build positive perceptions of BA Communication students of De La Salle Lipa. Additionally, the mentioned students find these advertisements effective in their brand recall and choice…
social media influence young female’s purchasing behavior on beauty products? With the improvement of people’s living level, more new communicated tools have appeared in business market and customers daily life. Social media, such Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram has played a very important role in business promotion markets. From my observation, more and more people choose to online shopping instead of going to the store. In beauty products markets, customers’ purchasing behavior may be influenced…