June 19, 2007
YouTube rolls out in 9 countries
In the first step in its international rollout, YouTube has launched localized versions of its video sharing site in nine countries — Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, the UK and Japan.
Their URLs are easy to remember, simply put the country's code before youtube.com. ie.e.: br.youtube.com, ie.youtube.com, it.youtube.com, uk.youtube.com, es.youtube.com....
YouTube Japan features a welcome video by Tokyo-based art collective Rinpa Eshidan, whose killer “motion painting” videos have a history of rocking YouTube.
And on YouTube France celeb French rap singer Kamini extends his welcome. This welcome video is also promoted on most other country specific YouTubes that I checked out (on Japan's too), so it must be it appears by recognizing your IP adress. In my case YouTube France would be the closest to Switzerland.
My guess is that each country has a celebrity welcome video message.
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