2. Contents
What is YouTube?
The history of YouTube
What made YouTube so popular?
The stages of YouTube popularity
What are the advantages and the benefits of
YouTube?
How can we use YouTube?
The disadvantages of YouTube
Programs that are similar to YouTube
Facts about YouTube
Conclusion
References
3. What is YouTube?
YouTube is an online public
communications site where videos
are shared. Users can create their
own accounts where they can
upload, view, share videos and
comment on them.
4. The History of YouTube
YouTube was created by Chad
Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed
Karim in 2005 who were all
employees of Paypal
YouTube began life as a video
dating site
The first video on YouTube has
received over 4.8 million views
5. What made YouTube so
popular?
The huge number of viewers.
Videos of all areas
Easy to use
No need to create an account to
view the videos
7. What are the benefits of
YouTube?
Its free
It used as a tool to teach high level mathematics
Potentially different
Content is powerful
Local and national audience
Videos are world wide
Great marketing tool ( for example if you have
products or a business and you would like to
broadcast yourself )
Useful for educational purposes
Videos can be downloaded ( using other website )
8. How can we use YouTube?
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YouTube
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9. The disadvantages of YouTube
• Content can be 18+ and is
accessible by all ages.
• People can effect others in a
negative way through videos (
abusive users)
• Content can be weak and people
can refer to them
10. Programs that are similar to
YouTube
http://video.yahoo.com ( no
Arabic videos)
http://video.web.de/ ( no Arabic
content )
http://www.dailymotion.com not
as strong as YouTube includes
Arabic content.
11. Facts about YouTube
The longest Video ever on YouTube is 48 hours (2
days!)
It generates an estimated 92 billion page views each
month.
Together, we spend 2.9 billion hours on YouTube in a
month. That’s 326,294 years.
YouTube is localized in 25 countries across 43
languages
YouTube’s demographic is broad: 18-54 years old
Millions of videos are considered favorites every day
YouTube has 490 million users worldwide
12. Conclusion
In my point of view, YouTube is one of the best
sites to use for all kinds of purposes. It is the
second Google. Any information that crosses our
mind we can find the answers either on the web
of Google or in the videos of YouTube. The
advantages that YouTube holds are much more
than the disadvantages therefore YouTube is a
reliable website. I wanted to bring this topic in
order to give the girls an idea of using YouTube
as a place to upload videos and presentations
created by Zu students. It will be a nice idea to
have a YouTube icon on the Zu website where
students can click on the icon and find videos