The document discusses the history and popularity of YouTube. It began in 2005 as a video dating site created by former PayPal employees. YouTube became popular due to its huge number and variety of viewer-uploaded videos that are easy for anyone to access without needing an account. The document outlines benefits like free sharing of videos for marketing or education and disadvantages like lack of content filtering. It provides statistics on YouTube's large user base and usage.

1. Broadcast yourself
Safiya Ahmad
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2. Contents
 What is YouTube?
 The history of YouTube
 What made YouTube so popular?
 The stages of YouTube popularity
 What are the advantages and the benefits of
YouTube?
 How can we use YouTube?
 The disadvantages of YouTube
 Programs that are similar to YouTube
 Facts about YouTube
 Conclusion
 References

3. What is YouTube?
 YouTube is an online public
communications site where videos
are shared. Users can create their
own accounts where they can
upload, view, share videos and
comment on them.

4. The History of YouTube
 YouTube was created by Chad
Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed
Karim in 2005 who were all
employees of Paypal
 YouTube began life as a video
dating site
 The first video on YouTube has
received over 4.8 million views

5. What made YouTube so
popular?
 The huge number of viewers.
 Videos of all areas
 Easy to use
 No need to create an account to
view the videos

6. The stages of YouTube
popularity

7. What are the benefits of
YouTube?
 Its free
 It used as a tool to teach high level mathematics
 Potentially different
 Content is powerful
 Local and national audience
 Videos are world wide
 Great marketing tool ( for example if you have
products or a business and you would like to
broadcast yourself )
 Useful for educational purposes
 Videos can be downloaded ( using other website )

8. How can we use YouTube?
 Jing link
 YouTube
link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlCQrS http://www.screencast.com/t/bXWxSYeIj
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9. The disadvantages of YouTube
• Content can be 18+ and is
accessible by all ages.
• People can effect others in a
negative way through videos (
abusive users)
• Content can be weak and people
can refer to them

10. Programs that are similar to
YouTube
 http://video.yahoo.com ( no
Arabic videos)
 http://video.web.de/ ( no Arabic
content )
 http://www.dailymotion.com not
as strong as YouTube includes
Arabic content.

11. Facts about YouTube
 The longest Video ever on YouTube is 48 hours (2
days!)
 It generates an estimated 92 billion page views each
month.
 Together, we spend 2.9 billion hours on YouTube in a
month. That’s 326,294 years.
 YouTube is localized in 25 countries across 43
languages
 YouTube’s demographic is broad: 18-54 years old
 Millions of videos are considered favorites every day
 YouTube has 490 million users worldwide

12. Conclusion
 In my point of view, YouTube is one of the best
sites to use for all kinds of purposes. It is the
second Google. Any information that crosses our
mind we can find the answers either on the web
of Google or in the videos of YouTube. The
advantages that YouTube holds are much more
than the disadvantages therefore YouTube is a
reliable website. I wanted to bring this topic in
order to give the girls an idea of using YouTube
as a place to upload videos and presentations
created by Zu students. It will be a nice idea to
have a YouTube icon on the Zu website where
students can click on the icon and find videos

13. Resources
 http://www.reelseo.com/list-video-sharing-websites/
 http://www.isoftwarereviews.com/the-video-sites-better-than-youtube/
 http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070627055754AAxhX76
 http://www.visibleu.com/2009/8-advantages-and-disadvantages-of-being-a-
youtube-partner/
 http://articles.submityourarticle.com/Steve-Duval-7594/twitter-97888.php
 http://www.squidoo.com/Benefits_of_Registering_With_YouTube
 http://webupon.com/video/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-youtube/
 http://www.surfnetkids.com/go/safety/173/youtube-what-is-it-and-why-use-it/
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube
 http://www.blogherald.com/2010/11/02/the-youtube-story/
 http://www.jeffbullas.com/2011/05/09/50-awesome-youtube-facts-and-figures/