Arguably the popular video sharing website among online video viewers and amateur video producers is Youtube.com. It is one of the largest video communities found on the net. Owned by Google, this popular video sharing website allows its users to view and upload video files. In addition to hosting videos, this service allows users to rate the videos available on the site, add their comments and subscribe to their favorite producers.
You Tube was founded in a garage in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim in the city of San Mateo, California, USA and was officially launched in December of the same year. Shortly after, it became an instant hit among its users.
Adobe Flash technology is the preferred choice for playing a wide variety of video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogs and short original videos, providing tremendous online store for safekeeping. video clips and files. This is a standard format supported by most browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Opera. The videos can be played on some mobile devices and even on the Nintendo Wii gaming system. During the summer of 2006, YouTube.com ranked as the fifth most popular website on Alexa, far outpacing even MySpace’s growth rate. According to a survey, 100 million video clips are viewed daily and 65,000 new videos are uploaded every 24 hours. The website averages almost 20 million visitors per month. The pre-eminence of the video sharing site in the online video market is substantial. In October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire the video-sharing giant. The deal closed on November 13, 2006 even though he was not yet turning a profit.
Videos are hosted and published solely from the YouTube website. The videos can be viewed directly on the website or embedded in other locations such as blogs and other websites. This means that you can watch videos without actually being on your site. It also means that you can use the site as your store of video content to spice up your own website. Unregistered users can watch almost all the videos available on the site, while registered users can upload an unlimited number of videos. Registration is free. Some videos are available only to users over the age of 18. In the company’s second year, many features were added to improve the user’s ability to post responses and subscribe to content feeds.
Videos can be found in many ways. You can search by keywords, browse by topic or even scan the list of the most popular videos. If you like a particular video producer, you can also subscribe to that user’s videos. They claim to foster a sense of community. This community atmosphere has created internet video stars, including mentions in many magazines and television shows.
To upload video content a free registered account is required. Most popular video formats like .WMV, .AVI, .MOV and .MPG can be uploaded using the registered account. YouTube automatically converts these files to Flash when they are uploaded. YouTube does not allow you to download videos easily. There are third-party tools that allow you to do this, but YouTube doesn’t recommend or support them.
YouTube content is not always safe for work or suitable for children. Copyright abuses are widespread. However, this popular video sharing website is still changing the world, riding the wave of huge popularity. Recently, they have planned to share ad revenue with users, but details are still awaited.