YouTube has officially turned 20 years old. That's right, the internet's biggest video platform as well as one of the most ...

When three former PayPal employees, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, registered the domain www.youtube.com 20 years ago, they wanted to create an online dating site based around videos of ...

YouTube is the largest video sharing platform, with over 2.5 billion monthly active users (MAU). There are 122 million daily ...

That man was Jawed Karim, one of YouTube’s three co-founders. “All right, so here we are in front of the elephants. The cool thing about these guys is that they have really, really ...

The video-streaming service entered the scene in 2005 with these simple words from co-founder Jawed Karim: “All right, so here we are in front of the elephants. The cool thing about these guys ...

As YouTube celebrates its 20th birthday, here are the 10 dates that defined the YouTube story February 14, 2005: YouTube, a video hosting service, is launched by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed ...

The Peabody Awards recognized YouTube in 2008, a little over three years after Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim launched it on Feb. 14, 2005. I remember this because I was on the board that ...

February 14, 2005: YouTube, a video hosting service, is launched by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, three former PayPal employees. April 23, 2005: Jawed Karim uploads the first video to ...

It was started inauspiciously in February 2005 by former PayPal employees Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim – with a 19-second video of Karim exploring San Diego Zoo. That year ...

At least, that's when three former PayPal employees – Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim – got together and decided on a name: YouTube. As Karim later explained in an early re-telling of ...

Evelyn Polacek Kery works for the Guardian and is a judge at the Press Awards 2025. When three former PayPal employees, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, registered the domain www.youtube ...