YouTube exceeds 2 billion views a day
Indian Premiere League cricket season live-streamed to the world on YouTube
YouTube video page redesign launched
24 hours of video uploaded per minute
Global Live stream of President Obama YouTube interview
YouTube announced more than 1 billion views per day
Live-stream of U2 concert
First major network deal signed for catch-up TV on YouTube: Channel 4
Individual Video Partnerships launched
YouTube Auto-Share to social networks and Webmail launched
20 hours of video uploaded every minute
Shows and Movies launch with hundreds of movies and thousands of full-length TV Episodes
US Congress and President channels launched
Homepage ads expanded from 1 to 7 formats
15 hours of video uploaded every minutes
CBS and MGM full-length programming comes to YouTube
YouTube Captions launched
Interactive YouTube feature Annotations launched
YouTube integration into Sony Bravia TV
13 hours of video uploaded every minute
YouTube Screening Room launched
YouTube Insight analytics tool launched
10 hours of video uploaded every minute
YouTube Partner Program launched
CNN/YouTube Debates - Part 2
Copyright management technology, Content ID, launched
Non-profit channels launched
CNN/YouTube Debates - Part 1
YouTube mobile site launched
YouTube launches in nine countries
First known instance of a Rickroll
Acquired by Google for $1.65B
First advertising concepts launched: Participatory Video Ads
100M video views per day; 65,000 new video uploads per day
Content Verification Program launched
Official site launch (8M videos watched a day)
YouTube secures first round of funding with Sequoia Capital for $3.5M
YouTube enables embeds for other sites
First video uploaded to the site
Founders register domain name and begin work on site