Adrian Weckler: How YouTube became a ­colossus hiding in plain sight

Its first video was posted 20 years ago this week, now more than 20 million are uploaded each day – yet the media giant attracts little scrutiny from regulators

Jawed Karim in the very first YouTube video, ‘Me at the Zoo’.

It was 20 years ago last week when the first YouTube video was uploaded.

Entitled ‘Me at the Zoo’, the 19-second clip featured YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim in front of two elephants at San Diego’s zoo.

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