What is Youtube?

YouTube had become one of the most popular sites on the internet. It not only introduced the easy accessibility of worldwide video sharing, it also created a way for people to communicate with videos and in ways that no website had ever accomplished before it to its degree. It not only created a way to share videos, it also introduced careers that were solely based on making these videos. People can make over $150,000 a year just creating new content for their loyal fan base, a job that would have been laughed at 10 years ago. But how did YouTube become the immense powerhouse of the internet as it is today, and how do people make 6 figures a year off of making videos. Well your about to find out.

Back in 2005 3 employees off PayPal created YouTube, oblivious of the multimillion dollar business that would come. They simply created the site just so they could share videos with their friends with ease. Flash-forward 8 years from then, and you can see what there once small site has become. YouTube has become the 2nd most popular site on the internet, just beaten out by Facebook, but however may edge to the first place spot soon enough as Facebook’s popularity has begun to dwindle. This spot as the second most viewed or visited site is thanks to its perfect timing. As I said before, pre 2005 there wasn’t a large worldwide video viewing sites. There were a few small ones, but nothing as large as YouTube.

Recently YouTube has become a job form some people. With their millions of subscribers, popular YouTube celebrities such as PewDiePie or Smosh with over 10 Million subscribers are making hundreds of thousands of dollars in ad revenue a year. Even without having a million subscribers, you can still make a decent sum off of ads and YouTube partnership with even a couple thousand subscribers. Using this system benefits from both the content producer and YouTube itself, with YouTube gaining more and more people coming in to the website, while the You Tubers gain money from YouTube and for Ad’s to be put on the videos. YouTube has also influenced popular culture with the website itself becoming almost a pseudo television with each different YouTube being its own special channel.

YouTube might be the most influential website of the 21^st century. With it came the ease of global video sharing and opened a new type of jobs that came with partnership.