Who was the very first youtuber

YOUTUBE went live way back in February 2005 – and is now a video streaming titan.

Its creators Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim built such a good app that it was sold to Google in October 2006 for £1.29bn ($1.65bn) and is now the second-largest search engine in the world.

Who was the very first youtuber

YouTube is wildly popular – and now nearly two decades oldCredit: Unsplash

When was YouTube created?

A YouTuber is anyone who creates video content for the website.

This makes co-founder Jawed Karim the first YouTuber when he uploaded a 18-second video called Me at the Zoo in 2005.

Over the years the definition of YouTuber has taken on a new meaning and now people can earn a living through their YouTube accounts and become professional YouTubers.

Who was the very first youtuber

Who was the very first youtuber

Professional YouTubers earn a living through advertising revenue, which can generate as much as $18 per 1,000 ad views, according to Forbes.com.

The most subscribed YouTubers today are:

  • T-Series with 147m subscribers
  • PewDiePie with 106m subscribers
  • Cocomelon – Nursery Rhymes with 89m subscribers.

One of T-Series' latest videos, titled Hanuman Chalisa, received 141,711 views in the first 10 hours. It's estimated that could have earned the channel around $2,550.79.

However, the amount paid depends on a variety of factors, including the number of views each video receives, the number of clicks an ad receives, ad quality, and video length

What was the first YouTube video?

The first ever YouTube video was by Jawed Kawim on April 23, 2005.

It was titled Me at the Zoo and featured Karim standing in front of an elephant enclosure at the San Diego Zoo saying: "All right, so here we are in front of the elephants.

"The cool thing about these guys is that they have really, really, really long trunks and that's cool.

"And that's pretty much all there is to say."

Since the video was uploaded, it has received around 106 million views, 3.7m upvotes, and 7,576,000 comments.  

What was the first YouTube video to hit 1 million views?

The first video to hit one million views on YouTube was an advert by Nike, featuring football star Ronaldinho.

It was uploaded in October 2005 and the original footage is no longer on the site, but it has been re-uploaded by other users.

The clip features the Brazilian footballer trying on a new pair of boots and doing "keepy ups" before kicking the ball towards the goal from outside the box.

It then bounces off the cross bar, and back towards Ronaldinho who continues to keep the ball in the air.

He bounces it back off the goal posts and repeats the trick several times.

The video, entitled Touch of Gold, became the blueprint for the concept of a viral video.

Another YouTube video worthy of note is Gangnam Style by South Korean singer Psy.

The video was so successful that it became the most-watched video on the site, with over 3.7billion views.

This broke YouTube's views counter by exceeding the maximum.

Who was the very first youtuber

Who was the very first youtuber

Subsequently, programmers changed the code for the site so that the view counter would go up to 9,223,372,036,854,775,808.

That's more than nine quintillion.

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Fifteen years ag0, a guy named Jawed Karim posted the first-ever video to YouTube. 

The 18-second video, entitled "Me at the zoo," features Karim, a YouTube cofounder, at the San Diego Zoo standing in front of a bunch of elephants.

"All right, so here we are in front of the elephants," he says in the clip. "The cool thing about these guys is that they have really, really, really long trunks, and that's, that's cool. And that's pretty much all there is to say."

The low-quality video was posted on YouTube a month before the platform's public beta launch in May 2005. By this point, YouTube's team had pivoted from an idea for a dating site to a vision for a platform that made online video more accessible and easier to share. The website then officially launched in November 2005. 

Karim left the company in 2005, instead going to Stanford University to get a masters degree in computer science. But when Google later acquired YouTube in 2006, Karim got 137,443 shares of stock in the company worth roughly $64 million. Karim went on to found venture capital firm Youniversity Ventures, which has invested in companies including Airbnb.

Watch the first video ever posted to YouTube: an 18-second-long, grainy home video.

The first YouTuber to upload a video was Jawed Karim. He uploaded his famous “Me at the zoo” clip on April 23, 2005. The clip is 18 seconds long and it only consists of him talking about what he saw at the San Diego Zoo.

The video became an internet sensation because it was one of the first videos ever uploaded to YouTube!

He was one of the co-founders of YouTube, so after creating the site, he became one of its first users. His video is still on YouTube today!

YouTube has evolved into something much more complex and unique today. It hosts thousands upon thousands of videos that are uploaded by various users every day. However, Jawed Karim’s “Me at the zoo” clip will always be remembered as one of the very first videos ever uploaded to what we now know as YouTube!

Over time, the meaning of “YouTuber” has changed, and individuals may now make money through their YouTube accounts and turn into full-time YouTubers.

Advertising revenue can be substantial, with Forbes reporting that professional YouTubers might make up to $18 per 1,000 ad views.

The most subscribed YouTubers until December 2020 are:

  • T-Series with 199m subscribers
  • PewDiePie with 110m subscribers
  • Cocomelon – Nursery Rhymes with 122m subscribers.

Nike’s first million-viewer YouTube video was an advertisement for Ronaldinho, a soccer player.