YouTube’s success chart in 5 years! The most popular video sharing site today is YouTube. It is interesting to see how rapidly YouTube achieved success in a short span of just 5 years. The domain name was registered on February 14 2005, by YouTube’s co-founders, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Javed Karim. The first YouTube video was entitled ‘Me at the zoo’ and shows co-founder Karim at San Diego Zoo. It was uploaded on April 23 2005. The site officially launched in November 2005 and by July 2006 the company announced that more than 65,000 new videos were being uploaded every day – with 100 million video views per day. In October 2009, the site celebrated serving over one billion views per day. The site is acquired by Google.