YouTube, founded in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, has grown exponentially over two decades from a casual video hosting service to the world's largest platform for digital content. With 2.5 billion viewers and 100 million music and premium subscribers worldwide, the platform dominates the market, challenging established television networks. This explosive growth is fueled by user-generated content across a multitude of genres, with over 500 hours of video uploaded to the site every minute, reshaping how audiences consume media today.
YouTube was started by tech bros who wanted a video hosting service to watch reruns of Janet Jackson's 'wardrobe malfunction' during the Super Bowl.
Now, it's the world's largest digital video service in terms of time spent and ad revenue -- it's an utter behemoth.
If you go back 20 years, it would have seemed laughable that this website with kids making parody videos would become a threat to Disney, ABC, and CBS.
The amount of new stuff coming out is a firehose that you can't turn off, so people are always tuning in.
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