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Who is monitoring the 200 million videos available daily on YouTube?

17 March 2018

9:00 AM

17 March 2018

9:00 AM

On 25 April 2005, Jawed Karim sent an email to his friends announcing the launch of a new video site — intended for dating — called youtube.com. Within 18 months, the site was being used to view 100 million videos a day. Last year it had more than a billion users, watching five billion videos every day, with creators uploading 300 hours of video to YouTube every minute.

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