1. Business and Finance (www.economist.com), april 23, 2015, http://www.economist.com/news/business-and-finance/21649460-most-popular-site-online-video-turns-ten-today-its-growth-has-been-record-smashing
2. History
   1. beginning
      1. Host mainly homemade videos
      2. Host pirated televisions shows
   2. Google bought Youtube in 2006 for $1.7 billion
      1. otherwise it would have shutted it down because of lawsuit trouble
   3. Google ownership
      1. Television companies start uploading their own shoes and teaser
      2. Musicians made their music videos online
      3. Advertisers put their commercials on videos
3. Problem
   1. High cost of bandwidth in markets like Africa
   2. Little success selling consumers subscriptions at low prices
   3. Competition with Facebook and Yahoo for online video Platforms
4. Evolution
   1. making videos helping with daily trouble
   2. making research videos easier
   3. Bringing higher-quality shows online and marketing individual channels
      1. rising youtubers (ex: PewDieDie a swedish gamer)
5. Popularity
   1. a billion people or a third of all internet-users visit it
   2. each minute = 300 hours of video uploading tot the site
   3. third most popular web domain