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The YouTube Original Channel Initiative was a $100 million program funded by Google in 2012 to bring original content onto YouTube. [1][2] The original channel initiative was also meant to kick start Google TV. [3] The channels are collectively known as "original", "premium" or "YouTube funded" channels. Participants included:
YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno, California, founded by three former PayPal employees— Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim —in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, since which it operates as one of Google's subsidiaries.
Title screen of YouTube Originals. YouTube Premium, formerly known as YouTube Red, is a subscription service that provides advertising-free streaming of all videos hosted by YouTube, offline play and background playback of videos on mobile devices, access to advertising-free music streaming through YouTube Music, and access to "YouTube Original" series and films.
Susan Diane Wojcicki (/ wuːˈtʃɪtski / woo-CHITS-kee; [1] July 5, 1968 – August 9, 2024) was an American business executive who was the chief executive officer of YouTube from 2014 to 2023. Her net worth was estimated at $765 million in 2022. [2]
Jawed Karim was born on October 28, 1979, in Merseburg, East Germany, to a Bangladeshi father and a German mother. [4] His father Naimul Karim (Bengali: নাইমুল করিম) is a Bangladeshi who is a researcher at 3M, and his mother, Christine, is a German biochemistry scientist at the University of Minnesota. [5] He was the elder ...
Crash Course (sometimes stylized as CrashCourse) is an educational YouTube channel started by John Green and Hank Green (collectively the Green brothers), who became known on YouTube through their Vlogbrothers channel. [2][3][4] Crash Course was one of the hundred initial channels funded by YouTube's $100 million original channel initiative.
YouTube Premium offers original films and series produced in collaboration with professional studios and YouTube personalities, [10] under the banner YouTube Originals. For multi-episode series, the first episode of a YouTube Originals series is available free. [ 10 ]
SourceFed Studios. SourceFed Studios was an American digital media company and multi-channel network created by Philip DeFranco in 2011. After finding success during the early years of YouTube with his eponymous news show, DeFranco secured funding from YouTube and launched SourceFed as part of the YouTube Original Channel Initiative in 2012.