WHAT IS YOUTUBE?

It is a website where users can publish and share videos in digital form,
available for mobile phones, computers and other devices that may be
connected to the Internet.

WHO FOUNDED IT?

YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim in
February 2005 in San Bruno, California, who met when they worked at the
PayPal company.

The domain was activated in February 2005 and in April of that year the first Me
at the zoo video was uploaded. In 2006, YouTube was acquired by Google Inc.
and now operates as one of its subsidiaries.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

This Internet portal has an online player based on Flash, the format developed
by Adobe Systems. His main innovation was the ease of viewing videos without
downloading the file to the computer (streaming). Therefore, users can select
which video they want to watch and play instantly.

People who create content for this platform are known as youtubers, examples:

WHAT IS IT FOR?

Youtube serves to:

- Upload and watch videos.

- Represent and interpret information through audiovisual language.

- The ease of inserting videos into blogs or web pages allows personal and
corporate pages to easily add videos to their sites.

- The use of social networks. Well, when a person likes a video they share it on
their social networks and so many more people see it.

- YouTube is the platform used by brands as an advertising tool because it

allows to promote through videos and with spots, their products, services,
promotions and even their philosophy; as well as composers and singers
choose to create their own channels to publicize their video clips and all
information that may be of interest to fans or the press.

IMPACT ON POPULAR CULTURE AND SOCIETY

• YouTube has had a big impact:

- Prize for the "invention of the year", awarded by Time magazine in November
2006

- The site became a popular media as a communication channel, informative

site and entertainment venue.

- Another step 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.

YOUTUBE FEATURES

1) It is the second most popular social network worldwide, being the platform
that has the greatest reach after Facebook. In addition, it is the second search
engine on Google.

2) Manage to convert any YouTube video into a GIF.

3) You can create a link that starts a YouTube video.

4) You can simply view the written reproductions of the videos.

5) It has millions of subscribers, visits and views per day.

6) It is a channel open to the public, you do not need an account to enter the
channels.

7) It is only for people over 18 years of age.

8) Sanctions users who publish videos that discriminate against gender,

ethnicity, religion, race, sex orientation.

9) English is the default language but it is available in other languages.

10) Presents a variety of movie clips, television shows and music videos, as
well as amateur content such as video blogs and YouTube Gaming.