YouTube's First Video Is 20 Years Old: How Things Have Changed

7 former YouTube execs describe pivotal moment in its rise from pirate ship to king of video

YouTube employees past and present convened for a 20th anniversary party in March.The Lounge BoothThe first YouTube video went live 20 years ago Wednesday.Business Insider spoke with former top execs about navigating pivotal moments.From building a new copyright paradigm to frustrations around Originals, here's what they remember.Many former YouTube employees have a special connection to their alma mater, and a long-standing pride about having s…

We went viral in the early days of YouTube - here's how it's changed our lives

It’s now 20 years since the first YouTube video was uploaded (Picture: Getty) Charlie and Harry are at university now studying law and business. They’re preparing to join the workforce, but you probably know them as the toddlers in one of the most viewed videos of all time. They are the two children who accidentally went viral, after their dad tried to share a candid – hilarious – moment with family in the early days of YouTube. Today is the 20t…

YouTube turns 20 years old. How it changed TV as we know it

LOS ANGELES — The grainy 19-second YouTube video that started it all hardly had the makings of a viral sensation. Read more...

YouTube's first video turns 20

Millennials, brace yourselves. YouTube's first video just turned the big 2-0.

YouTube turns 20 and is on track to be the biggest media company by revenue

Twenty years since launching, YouTube would likely be worth as much as $550 billion as a stand-alone business, according to analysts at MoffettNathanson.

YouTube, at 20, Has Hosted 20 Trillion Videos and Launched Superstars. It Wants More—Including Some Prestige

Inside the platform that gave us ‘Hot Ones,’ Michelle Khare, ‘Chicken Shop Date,’ and ‘Good Mythical Morning’—not to mention Justin Bieber and MrBeast—as it embraces bingeability and more.