YouTube is a free video sharing service on the internet, whose overwhelming success seems to have no limits. It has become the largest, most important and main channel of communication and promotion of videos, and one of the reference icons of the social web.
This portal was founded in San Bruno, California by three young men Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, in February 2005. YouTube was born from a need of its founders: to easily exchange videos recorded during a birthday with friends, and to share it with as many people as possible.
Later, YouTube featured numerous users who posted videos of all kinds, and the site continued to arouse much interest, to such an extent that in October 2006, the Google company bought it for $ 1.65 billion.
The use of YouTube is very simple for the user, he just has to upload his video on the page from his own computer and that's it. The site collects any type of video, be it summaries of a soccer game, home videos, collage dedicated to a loved one, parts of television programs and films, documentaries, among others.
Active viewers put notes on videos they like and hate, and can comment. This portal has allowed many people to express themselves, and some stars to make themselves known and leave anonymity, but to ask Justin Bieber.
YouTube has become the largest audiovisual library in the history of mankind, it is considered the best means of dissemination and knowledge, since it is a service that allows any user to find information contained within the videos.
YouTube has one of the highest rates of permanence on a website, about 11.5 minutes per user, and has more than 80 million monthly users. Communication sociologists already talk about the Youtube Generation, when members of this generation see something on the social web that they like, they immediately share it with their friends on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, etc.
Despite all this, YouTube has had problems in its legality and copyright policy, filing lawsuits for videos of movies, television programs, especially songs, among others, the elimination of the video in question has been taken as a measure. Google decided to try a technology that prevents what they call "piracy", this is based on the recognition of videos; However, today there are many users who upload, which sometimes get out of their hands.
