How Did YouTube Get Started?

Normally, I blog when I have something new to say or to offer you, but this time, I have something to ask. I hope that one or more of my readers might be able to point me in the right direction.

I am pursuing a video project that could best be summarized as a niche YouTube (serving a particular audience).

What I don’t know is a) how YouTube seeded their collection of videos in the first place and b) how they built their audience. I would think it would be hard to start without one or the other, wouldn’t you?

I do have a business model in mind, but will save that for later conversations…

In the meantime, can anyone point me in the right direction to find the answers to these questions?

Email me at andrew at bourland dot com.

Thanks in advance…

 
 
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On August 19th, 2006 at 3:37 am, Dhawal said:

i am looking for exactly the same thing as you are. mail me too if ur able to find it.

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On September 14th, 2006 at 9:28 am, Pixel3 said:

I have allready programed a exact same replicat of oyutube wich is legal and «i wanted to know if someone would like to buy it from me and for the question the answer is they got lots of trafic from MySpace I can also say most of the traffic is from MySpace.com. Contact me for anythign else. I.Pixel3@Gmail.com

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On April 14th, 2008 at 2:22 pm, Stephanie said:

I am looking for kinda the same thing, because I want to know WHEN it started and WHAT it looked likke at first. E-mail me if you find out any info about youtube. Thanks xoxo

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On April 22nd, 2008 at 6:38 am, Adido Web Design said:

If you do find out any information how the website got started and grew quickly, I’d be interested to read it as well.

Thanks.

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