What Is the First Youtube Video Ever Uploaded

YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim posted the 18-second video, titled "Me at the zoo." in 2005

Jawed Karim at the Zoo (Source: YouTube)

H H ave y'all always wondered what was the commencement video ever uploaded on YouTube? Today information technology is considered the biggest video content publisher on the whole internet and information technology had been like this for quite some years, but in 2005 not even 1% of this world's population knew almost this platform. I is something that should not be of surprise is that the starting time video had actually been uploaded by i of the founders, named Jawed Karim.

The first vlogger?

The blazon of video he uploaded would be categorized every bit a vlog, xviii seconds of himself at the zoo presenting the elephants backside him, which was uploaded on Apr 24th, 2005. Earlier YouTube, nosotros had Vimeo which was released in tardily 2004 which was and information technology had quite a lot of success until YouTube became popular. However, if nosotros were to actually dig deep nosotros would detect that the outset platform on the internet for sharing videos was actually ShareYourWorld.com which was started in 1997.

On the aqueduct, information technology is the but video ever uploaded and since then, the video had accumulated over 220 million views and the channel over ii.7 million subscribers. Funny enough, nearly of the views had actually been accumulated in the last two years with 130 million views under the chugalug. The first comment on the video had also accumulated over the years ii.3 million likes, making it the most liked comment on youtube.

Jawed Karim may not be the offset blogger, but he is definitely the commencement viral vlogger and this was before anyone actually knew that within the video was one of the founders of YouTube. To be honest, I didn't even know when I first saw the video that this was 1 of the founders, well it is a much younger version of him.

YouTube Explodes

The power of actually being the first on a platform, only really it's nigh the virality of a video behind its importance, in this example, is the first video on i of the biggest websites on the cyberspace. What is interesting is that the uploader (Karim) keeps updating the description on the video and this can be observed by his comments on the policy change of YouTube regarding removing the brandish of dislikes in November of 2021.

"Watching Matt Koval's announcement nearly the removal of dislikes, I thought something was off. The spoken words did not lucifer the eyes. The video reminded me of an interview Admiral Jeremiah Denton gave in 1966. I have never seen a less enthusiastic, more reluctant announcement of something that is supposed to be great. Calling the removal of dislikes a good thing for creators cannot be done without conflict past someone holding the title of "YouTube's Creator Liaison". We know this because there exists non a unmarried YouTube Creator who thinks removing dislikes is a proficient idea — for YouTube or for Creators. Why would YouTube brand this universally disliked change? At that place is a reason, but it'southward not a good one, and not one that volition be publicly disclosed. Instead, there will be references to diverse studies. Studies that apparently contradict the mutual sense of every YouTuber." (Quote by Jawed Karim)

In 2006 YouTube had diddled as millions of people started uploading random videos and trying to sympathize this side of the internet. This is where Google (as the leader of the internet) had seen the potential inside the platform and proposed founders Jawed Karim, Steve Chen, and Chad Hurley to sell YouTube for a whopping $1.65 billion. Google was attracted by a video that had exploded on the platform and showed the monetary potential of the platform.

Probably if the founder knew that their Platform xvi years later would produce $eight.half-dozen billion per annual quarter, they would have never sold their platform. The internet had reached a point where some niches are merely exhausted, and video platforms volition never be able to grow equally far as YouTube keeps rising. Nevertheless, the lesson to larn here is the potential something can have at the start, despite whatsoever it may exist.

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