"Okay, so here we are, uh, in front of the elephants. The cool thing about these guys is that they have very long and very long trunks. This is what I want to say." Although the content is simple and targeted, This historic video has been viewed more than 90 million times. Of course, this is nothing compared to the popular videos on the site. Its most viewed work-the music video shot for Luis Fonsi's song "Despacito" in 2017, has been viewed more than 6.7 billion times.
Karim founded YouTube with Steven Chen and Chad Hurley, both of whom are former employees of PayPal. He has said in the past that after two major incidents in 2004, they had the idea of creating YouTube, including the Janet Jackson (Janet Jackson) incident in the Super Bowl broadcast on CBS. Just one year after the production of the zoo video in 2005, Karim and his team sold the platform to Google for $1.65 billion. According to the company's statistics, more than 2 billion logged-in users visit YouTube every month, and people watch more than 1 billion hours of video every day.