Who is the owner of YouTube and who made YouTube

In today's time, there will be hardly any smartphone user who does not use YouTube, but do you know who is the owner of YouTube and which country is YouTube company. I know most of the people are not aware of this.

According to a report of 2021, YouTube has more than 2.5 billion Monthly Active Users and most of us want to get any information, then first of all search it on YouTube in our mobile.

And the best part is that we get all the information we need here. So if you are also an internet user, then it is very important for you to know about YouTube.

So read our today's post completely, here I am going to give you detailed information about all the questions related to YouTube like- who is the owner of YouTube, who made YouTube, what country is YouTube company and when was YouTube started etc. .

What is YouTube

Now you must be thinking that everyone knows what YouTube is, but I know that there will be some people who will not be aware about it, then it is necessary to tell them too.  Where you can search and watch the video according to your need.

Here you get to see all types of videos, whether it is of Educational, Entertainment or Technology or other categories and here you can upload your own video by making and uploading it. On YouTube, we also get the feature of Like, Dislike and Share and Comment on the video so that here we can give our feedback on any video.

People can also earn money by monetizing their videos on YouTube. According to a report of April 2022, YouTube is most used by about 467 million users in India and the United States comes second in this list where it is used by 247 million users.

Who owns YouTube

YouTube is owned by Google Company, which is a multinational company in America. But YouTube is not made by Google. YouTube was created in 2005 by three American friends Jawed Karim, Steve Chen and Chad Harley.

Before creating YouTube, all three of them used to work in PayPal company, these three friends saw that people can easily record their videos but there was no such platform to share it so that anyone could share their videos publicly.

And looking for a solution to this problem, he made YouTube. And later YouTube started growing very fast and seeing its future need, Google bought it on 13 November 2006 for 1.65 billion US dollars.

Since then the ownership of YouTube is with Google or even if you say that YouTube is a subsidiary company of Google, it will not be wrong. And the earnings from the YouTube company go to Google itself. So let's now know where is YouTube company.

YouTube belongs to which country

As we have told you above that YouTube is owned by Google and Google is an American company, which means that YouTube is also an American company. The three friends who created YouTube were also American and Google, the multinational company that bought YouTube, is also American.

Meaning YouTube is completely an American company. And currently the CEO of YouTube is Susan Wojcicki who is a woman and she is taking over as its CEO since 5 Feb 2014.

How YouTube started

YouTube started in this way, it is in 2004, when Jawed Karim, Steve Chen and Chad Hurley went to a dinner party, they saw that people were able to record videos there but they did not have any such medium So that they could share that video.

After this, these three friends thought of creating a platform where people can easily share or upload videos and so that the world can see that video. After this, Sequoia Capital invested 11.5 million US dollars and Artis Capital Management 8 million US dollars in their startup.

And he succeeded in his goal by working hard and launched its beta version on 14 February 2005 and within a few days of the beginning, 30,000 views daily started coming on YouTube, after which it was officially launched on 15 December 2005. .

But at that time only American people could use YouTube and later gradually YouTube was launched for other countries as well and YouTube was started in India on 7 May 2008.

Who uploaded the first video on YouTube

This question must have also come in your mind that after all who would have uploaded the video on YouTube first, then I would like to tell for your information that the first video on YouTube was uploaded by Jawed Karim, who created YouTube on 24 April 2005.

And the title of that video was Me at the Zoo in which Javed was in a zoo and elephants were behind him and this video was only 19 second and you can still watch it on YouTube by searching its title.

Some interesting facts related to YouTube

Friends, now we are going to tell you about some interesting facts related to YouTube, about which it is important for you to know.

1. YouTube was first designed primarily as a dating site.
2. PayPal invested indirectly in YouTube from the beginning.
3. Just 1.5 years after YouTube was launched, Google bought it for $1.65 billion.
4. YouTube is the world's largest search engine after Google.
5. There are 98 different versions of YouTube available.
6. YouTube is watched by more people than cable connections.
7. It would take a lifetime to watch a video uploaded to YouTube in 1 hour.
8. 20% of videos on YouTube are finished within 10 seconds.
9. 45% of YouTube users use it every day.
10. The earnings from YouTube remain with Google.
11. YouTube Music services are also provided by YouTube from where you can listen to songs.
12. You cannot directly download any video from YouTube to your gallery.
13. You can see the video with the most views in the trending option on YouTube.
14. You can take its Premium Subscription for Ads Free YouTube.