Which came first, Instagram or YouTube?
Which came first, Instagram or YouTube?
YouTube
2005 — 5 years before Instagram
YouTube came first, by 5 years. The domain was registered; the first video followed in April.
Side by side
| YouTube | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | 2010 | 2005 |
| Date | 2010-10-06 | 2005-02-14 |
| Category | technology | technology |
| What happened | The app launched on iOS. | The domain was registered; the first video followed in April. |
Instagram launched in October 2010 as an iPhone-only app and took 25,000 users on its first day. Facebook bought it in April 2012 for about $1 billion when it had thirteen employees and no revenue. It is four years younger than Twitter and six years older than TikTok.
YouTube
The youtube.com domain was registered on Valentine's Day 2005, the first video — "Me at the zoo", 19 seconds of a co-founder at San Diego Zoo — was uploaded on 23 April, and the site opened publicly in the winter. Google bought it in November 2006 for $1.65 billion, about twenty months after the domain was registered. It is younger than Facebook by a year and older than Twitter by one.
Common questions
- Which came first, Instagram or YouTube?
- YouTube, by 5 years — 2005 against 2010.
- When did Instagram start?
- 2010. The app launched on iOS.
- When did YouTube start?
- 2005. The domain was registered; the first video followed in April.
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Sources
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation (CC0 1.0)