We could say we’re the hottest game in town, but really we’re the hardest working bunch with a peppering of style and coolness that shakes up the competition.
Guess Who Is 5 Years Old? It’s hard to believe that YouTube, which serves more than 1 billion videos per day, turned five years old yesterday. The domain name YouTube.com was registered on February 14, 2005.
As per Mashable.com, YouTube wasn’t the clear leader in 2005: it competed with a range of services from Veoh to Vimeo to Viddler and many more. Some combination of easy uploading, embeddable videos and an early decision to serve up all clips in Flash (plus, some would argue, lenient policies on copyrighted content) eventually saw YouTube emerge as the victor in the video battle. The company sold to Google in October 2006 for $1.65 billion. Hmmm...pretty impressive for a company that wasn't even at the head of the pack 20 months earlier. So the lesson of the day is to keep learning, keep experimenting, keep trying. The big break you need could be just around the corner!