YouTube Opens Internet Video to the Masses; Serving 3 Million Videos Daily
`and Growing, YouTube Unveils a Fast, Fun and Easy Service for Consumers
`to Broadcast Original Video
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`Market Wire
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`December 15, 2005 Thursday 5:00 AM GMT
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`Copyright 2005 Market Wire, Incorporated All Rights Reserved
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`Length: 828 words
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`Dateline: SAN MATEO, CA; Dec 15, 2005
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` YouTube, a consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos through a Web experience,
`today launched its new service that allows people to watch, upload, and share personal video clips at
`www.YouTube.com and across the Internet. As more people capture videos through digital cameras, mobile
`phones and other devices, YouTube makes it fast, fun and easy to broadcast those experiences worldwide.
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`On a typical day, YouTube already is serving more than 3 million videos, adding 8,000 video uploads and
`transferring 16 terabytes of data. YouTube first opened a public preview of its service in May.
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`"We're moving the equivalent of two Blockbuster stores every day over the Internet, and that's only a start," said
`Chad Hurley, co-founder and CEO of YouTube. "The explosion in consumer devices with video and in broadband
`connections is giving users control over the videos they watch and share, and YouTube is dedicated to making their
`experience as easy and relevant as possible."
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`Along with connecting users with videos from friends and family, YouTube is delivering entertaining, authentic and
`informative videos across the Internet. Users are documenting news events as they happen, filming quirky videos
`about their interests and sharing first-hand accounts of their travels.
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`Watch Your Favorite Videos
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`Anyone can watch the public videos on YouTube. They can search for videos by entering common search terms,
`or they can browse through videos based on channels of interest, popularity, user rankings, most recently viewed
`videos and featured videos selected by community recommendations.
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`Users also can register for a YouTube account and create a personal network of videos. Once completing a simple
`registration process, they are able to save their favorite videos from YouTube, create play lists of videos and
`connect with other users and friends and family to watch personal videos.
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`YouTube also supports tagging, both by letting users associate a set of keywords with the videos they upload or
`save in their personal networks and to browse through videos based on other users' tag designations.
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`Upload Your Coolest Clips
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`Prior to YouTube, the burden was on the user to figure out how to make videos available on the Web and to support
`multiple media players and hundreds of multimedia formats. Through its advanced technology infrastructure,
`YouTube instantly converts uploaded videos into a format viewable across the Internet without additional software
`uploads.
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`YouTube Opens Internet Video to the Masses Serving 3 Million Videos Daily and Growing, YouTube Unveils a
`Fast, Fun and Easy Service for Consumers to Broadcast O....
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`Registered users simply upload a video from their computers, and YouTube handles the conversions behind the
`scenes. Videos are turned into a Flash video, making them viewable through every major Web browser, including
`Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. Flash is available to 97 percent of Internet users.
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`"YouTube has removed the barriers for people to move their videos off their devices and onto the Internet," said
`Steve Chen, a co-founder and CTO of YouTube. "As well as making it easy to upload, our advanced video-
`clustering and highly-scalable technology is ensuring that watching and sharing videos is fast and fun anywhere on
`the Internet."
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`Share Your Video Experiences Everywhere
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`Once uploaded, users can make videos public or share them only with specified users such as friends and family.
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`Video sharing on YouTube is not limited to www.YouTube.com. Through its video embedding feature, YouTube
`allows users to stream videos, both personal and public ones, across the Internet on other Web sites. For example,
`users can insert their favorite YouTube videos into their MySpace profiles, blogs or personal Web pages. Even as
`viewers watch videos across the Web, they can immediately share a video through e-mail from within the video
`player itself.
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`Using a subscription feature, registered users can subscribe to one another's videos, creating personal broadcast
`networks where users stay updated on the latest from their favorite video creators.
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`Hurley adds, "YouTube is a community motivated to watch and share videos because they can experience real life
`through the eyes of people like themselves, not only through the lens of traditional television."
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`About YouTube
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`Founded in February 2005, YouTube is a consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos
`worldwide through a Web experience. Founded by early commerce pioneers of PayPal, YouTube allows people to
`easily upload, tag, and share personal video clips through www.YouTube.com and across the Internet on other
`sites, blogs and through e-mail, as well as to create their own personal video network. With investment support
`from Sequoia Capital, YouTube is set to become the Internet's premier video service.
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` Media Contact:
` Matt Hicks
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` Zeno Group for YouTube
` (415) 722-3603
` Contact via http://www.marketwire.com/mw/emailprcntct?id=5F61C36DC1E39191
` Jennifer Nielsen
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` Zeno Group for YouTube
` (415) 369-8112
` Contact via http://www.marketwire.com/mw/emailprcntct?id=00180333D5C811D3
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`SOURCE: YouTube
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`Load-Date: December 16, 2005
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