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The New York Observer also ranked it as the most important video in YouTube history, stating that it was "practically a historical artifact". [16] BuzzFeed News listed it among the 20 most important online videos of all time. [17] As the first video on YouTube, it has also been described as the first YouTube vlog. [18]
The video was one of the earliest examples of a viral video posted on YouTube, having received 23 million hits within 2 weeks of posting in mid-2006, and was marked as an example of low budget, user-generated content achieving broadcast television-sized audiences. [64] [65]
"Numb" by Linkin Park was the first 2000s video predating YouTube to reach 1 billion views in November 2018. [59] "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen was the first 1970s video (and pre-1990s video) to reach 1 billion views in July 2019. [60] "Sweet Child o' Mine" by Guns N' Roses was the first 1980s video to reach 1 billion views in October 2019. [61]
The first YouTube video, titled Me at the zoo, was uploaded on April 23, 2005, and shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo and currently has over 120 million views and almost 5 million likes. [15] [16] Hurley was behind the look of the website, creating the logo. [17]
His Eastern North Carolina hometown of 89,000 was where the teenager named Jimmy Donaldson filmed his first viral YouTube videos. The main participants in these early stunts — whether it was ...
The video received over seven million hits within its first week of release on YouTube, and by 2012, it earned over 25 million hits. The video won the "Viral Video" category in the 14th Annual Webby Awards. [191] "Numa Numa" with Gary Brolsma, a video of Romanian song "Dragostea Din Tei" by O-Zone.
Initially, Katie just posted Lily's first surprise on Facebook, but her friends urged her to share it on YouTube. The 2011 video has since surpassed over 20 million views as of January 2025.
Dailymotion, a French video-sharing website, is founded. [19] 2005 April 23 Companies YouTube opens for video uploads, and the first YouTube video uploaded on April 23, 2005, is titled Me at the zoo. [20] Between March and July 2006, YouTube grows from 30 to 100 million views of videos per day. 2006 May 14 Companies