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Feb 13, 2020 · By the early and mid-2000s, the future of the format was looking bleak; as Carol Vernallis writes in Unruly Media, her book on the evolution of music videos and YouTube, music videos had “dried ...
- Claire Shaffer
YouTube timeline of events. 2005: Registration of YouTube trademark, logo and domain on Valentine’s Day. April 24, 2005: First video posted to the site (18 seconds long) 2005: Launch of its beta site in May, 2005. September 2005: Reaching its first one million-hit video.
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 .
- "Strawberry Fields Forever"
- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
- "Thriller"
- "Money For Nothing"
- "Sledgehammer"
- "Buddy Holly"
- "Virtual Insanity"
- "Baby One More Time"
- "Single Ladies
- "Born This Way"
The Beatles are, of course, the most important band in pop music history (even if Paul is Dead), whose influence is still felt almost 50 years after they split up. But what about their music videos? Back in the 1960s, few acts recorded music videos. There was no MTV, and in an age of endless touring, artists couldn't often make it to TV studios to ...
Eight years later, the music video was still nothing more than an occasional promotional film, usually the syndication of a particular TV performance. Some artists like David Bowie recorded promotional films, but on the whole this idea was ignored, with shows in Europe such as Top of the Popspreferring to accompany songs with dancers if artists wer...
By the time Michael Jackson's solo career hit the stratosphere with his Thriller album, pop videos were more commonplace, with debut solo artists and established acts all spending time recording accompanying films and dedicated video performances to help sell their records. Directed by John Landis (An American Werewolf in London, The Blues Brothers...
Mixing early computer graphics with rotoscoped animation of Dire Straits playing live, "Money for Nothing" reached the US number one spot in no small part thanks to this video, which lead singer and guitarist Mark Knopfler had been extremely dubious about using. Director Steve Barron called upon Ian Pearson and Gavin Blair to create the animation, ...
Following his departure from Genesis, Peter Gabriel endured several years without a hit (first solo single "Solsbury Hill" aside) until this influential music video was commissioned by Virgin Records. With the stunningly imaginative use of stop-motion video techniques (something you'd probably be able to do with a phone these days) by Aardman Anima...
Directed by Spike Jonze, Weezer's biggest hit was accompanied by the visual treat of a Happy Daysmashup, with original cast members cleverly edited into the group's performance in Arnold's Drive-In diner, the popular eatery from the iconic 1970s TV show. While interspersing contemporary actors and performers with historical footage is commonplace t...
Jamiroquai's biggest hit featured this awesome combination of dancing and an apparently moving floor, enabling singer Jay Kay to perform the vocals in memorable fashion. While it appears that the video is all one shot, it is in fact several sequences edited together with the subtle use of camera pans. That's not the only magic at work here… As you ...
Britney Spears' debut single was released with this slightly cheesy high school-centric video from director Nigel Dick, and immediately tapped into the MTV audience, resulting in almost instant worldwide fame for the former Disney Club stalwart. Unlike most of the other videos on this list, there is little in the way of special effects in this musi...
Filmed in black and white and featuring nothing more than Beyoncé and two dancers, well, dancing in what seems to be a single take (it isn't), "Single Ladies" was awarded Video of the Year at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, and its popularity does not seem to have waned since. In fact, quite the opposite is true. With the arrival of YouTube in 200...
Lady Gaga has made music videos the focus of her pop single career more than any artist since Michael Jackson, so it should come as no surprise to find her stunning seven-minute-long "Born This Way" video concluding this list (and believe me, it was tough to choose just 10). Directed by fashion photographer Nick Knight, the video features Lady Gaga...
- Christian Cawley
- Former Senior Editor
Jul 30, 2019 · At the 2018 South By Southwest music and technology conference, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said, “We’re really more like a library.” That’s a cute idea, but YouTube doesn’t feel like a ...
Apr 5, 2019 · Logan Paul’s “suicide forest” video irrevocably changed YouTube. In it, Paul and his friends tour Japan’s Aokigahara forest, where they encountered a man’s body. Based on the video, it ...
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Jul 6, 2023 · July 2005: Video HTML embedding was added to the site for the very first time. August 2005: 5-star rating system was added to YouTube. September 2005: A Nike ad becomes the first video to hit 1 ...
