10 Years of YouTube videos and Our Lives Are changed forever!

Dorien Morin-van Dam

April 23, 2015

satisfied Birthday, YouTube!

 

On April 23, 2005, the first video was once uploaded to YouTube. It wasn’t made public unless may 29, but sure, these days is YouTube’s Birthday!

Watch the first ever YouTube video, ‘Me on the Zoo,’ here:

On Tuesday I received an invite from our native news station to sign up for them live on air to talk about how YouTube has impacted our lives and in particular how YouTube has modified parenting in the remaining 10 years.

listed here are some of the ways YouTube has changed my life as a mom

  • the necessity for ‘find out how to’ books is not a necessity – if i have a question on ‘find out how to do something’, i’ll Google it and most incessantly end up on YouTube.
  • My kids now spend more time on YouTube than they do observing television. They each and every get to ‘personalize’ their preferences and watch what they need, when they want it.
  • i have get admission to to anything my household would possibly want to learn! this means less trips to the library and no more in-particular person lessons; extra DIY studying. This also means more experimenting with cooking, exercising at home and style.
  • Free leisure on the go. as long as we have now WiFi for the youngest one on an iPad we are good. The older youngsters all have iPhones and they are good anyplace we are!
  • Planning beforehand is more straightforward. college tours, planning a shuttle, learning a few new metropolis; YouTube to the rescue.

after all, the upward thrust of YouTube and social media has additionally equipped me with a brand new occupation. How has it impacted others?

here are eighty+ amazing YouTube statistics. Some (almost inconceivable) stats are:

  • YouTube has an estimated four billion views/day, 1 billion of those views are on cellular units.
  • collectively these viewers watch an estimated 600 billion hours of video per month.
  • the 2 most looked for key phrases in 2014 were ‘song’ and ‘minecraft’
  • The 2014 ALS Icebucket problem produced an estimated 1 billion views.
  • YouTube’s estimated 2014 US ad income is $ 1.thirteen billion
  • 80% of YouTube visitors comes from outside of the USA.
  • the increase of parenting videos from 2013-2014 is 329% (I see a development!)

whether you’re a busy mother or father or a business proprietor, an adolescent or a retiree, YouTube can beef up your life in some ways and truly has modified how we are living lifestyles now, compared to 10 years ago!

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