By Benjamin Lichtman

It feels like ancient history since Google made headlines in 2006 by acquiring an up-and-coming, 65 employee, video website start-up known as YouTube for $1.65 billion. The company had been founded just 18 months earlier by former Paypal employees, and had quickly catapulted itself into a dominating market position, in what was then a very different internet. At the time of the purchase, Youtube had 72 million visitors per month and visitors were watching 100 million videos a day. Today, the site has well over one billion unique visitors per month with visitors watching approximately five Read full story ›

Source: The Drum