The first ever video was uploaded on YouTube by its co-founder Jawed Karim on April 23, 2005. It has over 66 million views to date. |
| Who uploaded the first video on YouTube,14 years ago today |
Yes, the first video on YouTube was uploaded 14 years ago on April 23. After establishing YouTube with his partner Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, co-founder Jawed Karim became the world's first YouTube uploader. The title of the video was "Me at the zoo" and it has still been seen on YouTube more than 66 million times. Now, those statistics can not come close to some of today's most popular videos on YouTube - Despacisto with 6.1 billion views or Ed Shiren's size with more than 4.15 billion views - but without the first video upload, we do not have streaming video We will know the way we do now. This was the beginning of the 1 minute video era.
Uploaded on April 23, 2005, "I at the zoo" stands in front of a few elephants at the Karim San Diego Zoo. In a 19-second clip, Karim talks about the calming of elephants due to its long trunks. The video was uploaded with the user name "jaw" from Kareem's own YouTube account and was registered by his high school friend, Yaquo Lapitski. At that time, YouTube was still under development and the site became officially live in December 2005 only.
A year later, in 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $ 1.6 billion and the rest, as they say, is history.
In 2018, Karim, who now runs Venture Fund Y Ventures, posted a poll on his YouTube channel and asked if he should upload another video. After the voting, the YouTube Co-founder got a positive response from those looking to see the second video upload, but no video was uploaded by him after the survey.