YouTube

High school (ages 12+)
Science & Technology

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Date:

Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/youtube

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the platform type?Online video-sharing platform
2. What is the launch date?February 14, 2005
3. Who started YouTube and when?Three friends who used to work at PayPal—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—started YouTube in February 2005.
4. How does YouTube make videos available to us?When someone uploads a video, YouTube changes it into a format that works on many devices, stores it on many servers, and then sends it from the nearest server to your device so it plays quickly.

User-Generated Content (UGC): Content, such as videos, created and uploaded by users rather than by the platform itself.
Content Delivery Network (CDN): A geographically distributed network of servers designed to deliver web content quickly and efficiently.
Monetization: The process of earning revenue from a product, service, or asset, such as by showing ads on videos.