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> In April of 2005, they tested their first upload. By October, they had posted their first one million-view hit: Brazilian soccer phenom Ronaldinho trying out
by ckelly 11y ago
> In April of 2005, they tested their first upload. By October, they had posted their first one million-view hit: Brazilian soccer phenom Ronaldinho trying out a pair of gold cleats. Weeks later, Google paid an unprecedented $1.65 billion to buy the site.
This article misstates when Google acquired YouTube. It was October 2006, not October 2005:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#Company_history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#Company_history
- a301 11y agoThey also mistake the traffic stats for /r/AskReddit as being traffic for all of Reddit: > According to a source close to the moderation process at Reddit, the climate there is far worse. Despite the site’s size and influence — attracting some 4 to 5 million page views a day[1] — Reddit has a full-time staff of only around 75 people, leaving Redditors to largely police themselves [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/about/traffic https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/about/traffic
- reycharles 11y ago> last month, reddit had 243,632,148 unique visitors hailing from over 212 different countries viewing a total of 8,137,128,592 pages Which is about 270 million page views per day. https://www.reddit.com/about/ https://www.reddit.com/about/
- takno 11y agoGiven that they don't have a large marketing team, 75 people would be a huge team to deal with 4 to 5 million page views
- giancarlostoro 11y agoI'm glad you caught this too, I thought it was WAY too soon, I knew YouTube when it had relatively grown in popularity and quite a bit before Google's acquisition of it.
- takno 11y agoBy the time I read it this had been corrected and acknowledged in the footnotes, so I guess it's good to know the system works