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YouTube was born from a failed dating site—20 years on, the world's biggest video platform faces new challenges
When three former PayPal employees, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, registered the domain 20 years ago, they wanted to create an online dating site based around videos of users. In 2016, Chen told the SXSW conference: "We thought dating would be the obvious choice.
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YouTube at 20: how it transformed viewing in eight steps
YouTube is a massive competitor to TV, an engagement beast, uploading as much new video every five minutes as the 2,400 hours BBC Studios produces in a whole year. The 26-year-old YouTube star Mr Beast earned US$85 million (£67 million) in 2024 from videos – ranging from live Call of Duty play-alongs to handing out 1,