YOUTUBE

 YouTube is an Internet portalthat allows its users to upload and view videos . It was created in February 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim , who met while working at PayPal . A year later, YouTube was acquired by Google for $ 1.65 billion.

This platform has an online player based on Flash, the format developed by Adobe Systems. One of its main innovations was the ease of viewing streaming videos, that is, without having to download the file to the computer . Users, therefore, can select which video they want to watch and play it instantly.

The original idea was to share personal videos (holidays, parties, etc.) with friends. YouTube , however, grew very quickly and soon clips of movies, television shows and music videos (video clips) began to be published. Many companies even decided to upload commercials and spread them through the portal.

Another step for the popularity of YouTube was the possibility of including the videos in 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.

Such is the advance and growth that YouTube has experienced that, today, it is one of the world platforms that has become the advertising tool of many artists. Proof of this is that a large number of composers and singers choose to create their own channels in that channel in order to publicize their video clips and all that information that may be of interest to their fans or the press.

But not only that. YouTube has also become the perfect showcase for those who dream of being singers and of launching their own albums. A good example of this is the Spanish artist Pablo Alboran who, as a result of the publication of one of his songs, managed to be a true mass phenomenon and is currently triumphing on the international scene, selling thousands of albums.

And something similar was what happened with the current idol of millions of teenagers around the world: Justin Bieber. This was a teenager who liked to compose and sing and who did not hesitate to hang on YouTube showing his art. This is how a producer who gave him his first break in the record market discovered him.

All this without forgetting that even world political leaders have used this space on the Net to launch their messages. This has been the case, for example, of Tony Blair, the former British Prime Minister, who posted a video on it to congratulate Nicolás Sarkozy for having won the French elections.

One of YouTube's main problems is videos that violate intellectual property rights. Google (current owner of the platform) tries to block and remove clips that break the law, although the number of users who upload videos makes the task very difficult.

YouTube also faced legal proceedings for videos that were offensive or inciting violence.


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