About This Blog

PlanetYouTube is all about the Video Sharing website YouTube. I will post comments and reviews about most popular YouTube videos and links to those Videos.

YouTube was founded by former PayPal Employees Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim.
YouTube offered the public a beta test of the site in May 2005, six months before the official launch in November 2005.The site grew rapidly, and in July 2006 the company announced that more than 65,000 new videos were being uploaded every day, and that the site was receiving 100 million video views per day. According to data published by market research company comScore, YouTube is the dominant provider of online video in the United States, with a market share of around 43 percent and more than six billion videos viewed in January 2009. It is estimated that 15 hours of new videos are uploaded to the site every minute, and that in 2007 YouTube consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000. In March 2008, YouTube's bandwidth costs were estimated at approximately US$1 million a day. Alexa ranks YouTube as the third most visited website on the Internet, behind Yahoo! and Google.

Fun Fact:
First YouTube video: "Me at the zoo"