You Tube is a free online video sharing website where any visitor can upload, watch, and share video clips. The site has several ways to show the populatity and quality of the videos sich as a 1-5 star rating system, the ability to leave comments, and a running count of how many times each video has been viewed.
You Tube succesful information
1. You Tube went from zero to over 4 milliom monthly visitors to their site within 3 months and is still growing.
2. The begining company was acquired by Google in October 2006 for $1.65 billion (20 months after the company was started), thus combining the biggest force in search and internet adversiting with the biggest force in online video.
3. You Tube has changed the entire landscape of TV advertsising, and rivals network television in viewing.
4. You Tube won the TIME magazine's
"Invention of the Year" in 2006
5. More than 65,000 new videos are uploaded everyday
6. You Tube is in the top 5 biggest web properties in the world
7. Major media outlets are monitoring popular videos and stories on You Tube, and are using videos they find there to create stories featured in the largest papers inthe world.
8. You Tube serves up over 200 million clips daily.
9. You Tube streams all sorts of video content including movies, tv shows, music videos, commercials and probably most importantly, a big amount of amateur content contributed by an enthusiastic community.
10. One huge advantage of You Tube's technology over the other various forms of internet video is the video playback technology wich is based on Macromedia's Flash Player wich is present on over 85% of computers connected to the internet.
