In a modern world so dizzying and stressful it is normal for people to look for various ways to relax and forget a little of the problems of the day, be it a way out with friends, watch family movies, watch some series before bedtime, make yoga or resort to YouTube videos.
YouTube, emerged in 2005, has become the world’s largest digital library and there can be found from music, through horror stories Until reaching the famous Asmr clips Among millions of channels.
To the platform, which is also the second most popular place in the world only behind Google, more than 500 hours of content are uploaded every minute and it is estimated that the profits for the video network reaches 15 billion dollars to the quarter.
To statistics are added that YouTube has a presence in at least 104 countries, available in a total of 80 languages.
According to the platform, around the world Users see 5 billion videos a dayso being a titanic task to decide what to see and not miss among so many news, the platform launched in 2018 various charts where you can consult what are the most watched videos of the week (general), the most reproduced musical videos in recent days and the trends of the day, which is updated in real time.
1. My privory
Artista/Canal: Jossie A Y Eljordan23
2. Bug
Artist/Channel: Anuel AA
3. With me he escapes
Artist/Channel: Cris MJ
4. amista
Artist/Channel: Blessd and Ovy On The Drums
5. 2×1
Artist/Channel: Jere Klein, Lucky Brown and Valdi
6. Chile & Alanys Lagos Leaders – 24 hours (official Video)
Artist/Channel: Chilean leaders
7. Gnarly
Artist/Channel: Katseye
8. WASSUP (Official)
Celebrity/Canal: Young Miko
9. Where will it be
Artist/Channel: Jairo Vera
10. With the mini
Artista/canal: Kidd Voodoo, Miky Woodz y Siggy
*In the ranking, various titles can be repeated because some can be official videos and others the lyrics of the songs.
YouTube saw the light in February 2005when three former employees of the PayPal company – Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim – joined and created it after they experienced difficulties to share with each other a couple of videos after attending a party.
The domain was activated on February 14, 2005 and almost a month later, on April 23, the first clip was loaded to the platform that was named “Me at The Zoo”. It was a matter of time for everyone to start loading content and to share the links through other social networks such as MySpace.
One of the big companies that saw the potential of YouTube was The Nike brand, which uploaded an advertising starring Ronaldinho, which made other large companies turn to see YouTube and feel attracted.
Such was the great reception of Internet users by YouTube that by December 2005 the platform went from the 50 million visits per day to 250 million visualizations after a channel uploaded the music clip Lazy Sunday, originally transmitted by Saturday Night Live.
For the following year, in 2006, The site was compared by the Internet giant, Google, for a value of 1650 million dollars. At that time 100 million videos per day were visualized and 65 thousand clips were added daily. They also signed agreements with labels to be able to reproduce musical videos.
Since it was launched, YouTube was a place that came to make a revolution not only on the Internet, but also in the way users look at content. Sample of this The recognition that Time magazine gave him in November 2006 when he was appointed the “invention of the year”.
Converted into the best means of diffusion, enjoying as much popularity has also put its owners in trouble as when to house school fights or where there is bullying, clips related to terrorism, drug trafficking or other issues considered delicate for their intimate content or for showing crimes such as murders and more.
For the United States one of the more delicate issues It is that of the school shootings, so YouTube has been more than once in the eye of the hurricane to house content filmed by the attackers, as was the case of the massacre of Virginia Tech, when Cho Seung-Hui, the attacker, previously uploaded a speech.
More recently, after the emergence of the Coronavirus pandemic, restlessness has also emerged on how the platform allows Content monetization that can be misleading and risky for the population.
Although not everything is bad, because through this platform many people have been recognized for their talent, as was the case of Susan Boyle, who participated in the Britain’s Got Talent program whose extract uploaded to YouTube managed to make the woman become a complete stranger to one of the most viralized, famous and acclaimed people of the Internet.
