EOTO Youtube

My EOTO topic was Youtube. Youtube was created in 2005. It was founded by former PayPal employees Steve Chen, Jawed Karim, and Chad Hurley. It was created for sharing videos, as many platforms exsisted for sharing pictures but not home videos.  Youtube was bought for almost 2 billion in 2006, soon replacing their own service of Google Video. Google was able to negociate deals to allow copyrighted material to appear on the website, thus reducing the amount of copyright infringment lawsuits. Since then, Youtube has taken off as the site we know and love to use today. From a group of friends wanting to easily share videos as they did photos to the international corporation it is today, Youtube has grown a lot in the 15 years it has been here. 




The invention of Youtube forever changed how we see videos. It was created as an easy video sharing platform, and has expanded from home creators to big name brands. Someone from one side of the world can upload a video and a person from the other side can watch and react to it. A benefit of Youtube is that it is accessible. Anyone can post on Youtube. All you have to have is an email account. While there is a paid version, anyone can watch Youtube for free if they are willing to suffer through ads. It has changed the way we learn. It is easy to find a video on whatever it is you wish to learn, whether you are looking for the history of the Civil War or how to do a plie. Creators can also earn money if their videos get enough views. However, Youtube, like everything, comes with negatives. Not everyone qualifies for making money off their videos, and those that do face potential demonitization if their videos are not considered "ad friendly". Advertisers were now allowed to pick which videos their ads were seen on, leaving many creators with a lessened revenue stream.  This restricts the content creators will want to post, as it might not be considered ad friendly by companies. Thus, the freedom of Youtube is lessened from what it originally was.  



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