Hey I am on Medial • 1y
It's insane to think that in 2006, YouTube was a bigger bandwidth hog than the entire internet back in 2000. Google was clearly onto something huge. Buying YouTube for $1.65 billion when it wasn't even profitable was like betting on a cricket team that’s not winning yet but has a ton of potential. We’ve all seen how that gamble paid off big time, huh?
Thatmoonemojiguy 🌝 • 6m
🎥 From Dating App to Empire: The YouTube Story In February 2005, three former PayPal employees launched a site called YouTube. Their original idea? 💘 A video dating site. The slogan: “Tune in, Hook up.” It flopped. No one uploaded dating videos.
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Trivias Around start... • 1y
Youtube's Great Pivot YouTube, the video-sharing platform that has become an integral part of our daily lives, had a rather unconventional origin story. Initially, the founders envisioned it as a dating site where users could create videos introduci
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Trivias Around start... • 11m
The Rise and Fall of Vevo: How Music's Corporate Giants Tried to Conquer the Internet In the late 2000s, the music industry was bleeding. Napster and LimeWire had decimated traditional revenue streams, and record labels watched helplessly as illegal
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