YouTube is a platform born in 2005.
YouTube is an Internet portal that allows its users to upload and view videos . It was created in February 2005 by Chad Hurley , Steve Chen and Jawed Karim , who met working at PayPal . A year later, YouTube was acquired by Google for $1.65 billion .
This platform has an online player based on Flash , the format developed by Adobe Systems . One of its main innovations was the ease of viewing streaming videos, that is, without having to download the file to the computer . Users can therefore select which video they want to watch and play it instantly.
The popularity of YouTube
The original idea was to share personal videos (from vacations, parties, etc.) with friends. YouTube , however, grew very quickly and soon fragments of movies, television shows and music videos (video clips) began to be published. Many companies even decided to upload commercials and broadcast them through the portal .
Another step for the popularity of YouTube was the possibility of including videos on other web pages and blogs by simply copying an HTML code . In this way, the videos transcended the portal itself and reached all kinds of sites .
Such is the progress and growth that YouTube has experienced that, today, it is one of the global platforms that has become the advertising tool of many artists. Proof of this is that a large number of composers and singers choose to create their own channels on it in order to publicize their video clips and all the information that may be of interest to their fans or the press.
Over time, YouTube became the most popular portal for the consumption of audiovisual content.
Use by musicians and politicians
But not only that. YouTube has also become the perfect showcase for those who dream of being singers and releasing their own albums. A good example of this is the Spanish artist Pablo Alborán who, following the publication of one of his songs, managed to become a true mass phenomenon and is currently triumphing on the international scene, selling thousands of albums.
And something similar was what happened with the current idol of millions of teenagers around the world: Justin Bieber. This was a teenager who liked to compose and sing and who did not hesitate to post on YouTube showing his art. That's how he was discovered by a producer who gave him his first opportunity in the record market.
All this without forgetting that even world political leaders have used this Internet space to launch their messages. This has been the case, for example, of Tony Blair, the former British Prime Minister, who posted a video there to congratulate Nicolás Sarkozy for having triumphed in the French elections.
YouTube and the laws
One of YouTube 's main problems is videos that violate intellectual property rights. Google (current owner of the platform) tries to block and remove clips that violate the law, although the number of users uploading videos makes the task very difficult.
YouTube also had to face legal proceedings for videos that were offensive or incited to violence.