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YOUTUBE NETFLIX
on February 14, 2005 at 9:13 pm the
website www.youtube.com had been
activated.
Initially the headquarters of youtube was
located above a pizzeria and Japanese.
restaurant in San Mateo, California.
The very first youtube video was
recorded on April 23, 2005 entitled “Me
at the Zoo”.
Youtube began as an angel-funded
enterprise working from a makeshift
office in a garage.
On the 4th month of 2006 Sequioa Artist
Capital Management invested an
additional of $8 million in the said
company
By October 9, 2006 Youtube was
purchased by Google of US$1.65 billion in
stock and completed on the 13th day of
November
PROFILE – Milestones
YOUTUBE NETFLIX
On the summer of year 2006 Youtube
had been one of the fastest growing sites
on the world wide web which was able to
host about 65,000 new video uploads
It was ranked as the fifth most popular
website on Alexa
According to Nielsen or Net Ratings it
almost gained an average of 20 million
visitors monthly 44% of the said
population were female and the rest
(56%) were male.
It entered the world of marketing and
advertising partnership with NBC by June
2006
Youtube was able to deliver about 100
million videos per day by July of the same
year
PROFILE – Popularity
YOUTUBE NETFLIX
On the same year when it started (2006)
Time Magazine featured a Youtube
screen with a large mirror as its annual
“Person of the Year
During the same year Youtube had been
classified as the ninth out of the top 10
best products of 2006 by PC World
Magazine
YOUTUBE NETFLIX
Youtube was founded three persons
namely Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and
Jawed Karim on year 2005 when they
worked for Paypal.
By November 2005 after its first video
release a venture firm named Sequioa
Capital and Roelef Botha invested an
initial amount of $3.5 million.
SIMILARITIES
YOUTUBE NETFLIX
1 Video Streaming Site
- Both site’s purpose is for video streaming either movie, tv series, simple videos, or latest
news
DIFFERENCES
YOUTUBE NETFLIX
1 Advertising-Supported Site Subscription-Based Service
- It hosts uploads made by registered - It streams both licensed content and
users. Youtube usually gets free rents on DVD and Blu-ray disc via E-mail.
content and sells ads . Customers pay monthly fees to access a
file by rent it for a few time or limited or
unlimited views.
PERSONAL ANALYSIS
YOUTUBE NETFLIX