It’s a party at YouTube. On February 14, 2005, the domain name YouTube.com was registered and two months later the first video became Me at the zoo placed. There are now 5 billion videos on the website, including videos about Zoetermeer. You can see the five most viewed below.

We have made a top 5 of striking videos on YouTube. For this overview, we looked at all the videos that ‘Zoetermeer’ has in the title and/or description.

Fighting ice hockey players

An ice hockey match between Dordrecht Lions and Zoetermeer Panters completely got out of hand in 2010. The ice hockers are used to a beating, but with an 8-1 deficit for the people of Dordrecht, players fought each other.

Nour (Long live Love) hates Zoetermeer

Zoetermeerder Onur and Nour met in the villa of TV program Lang Live De Liefde. When Nour asks him about his hometown, she openly tells her hatred for Zoetermeer. “Zoetermeer is the only city I hate everything. The only city in the Netherlands that I can’t stand,” says Rotterdammer Nour. Well … will love blossom between the two?

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The American couple Travis and Tracey moved from Houston to Leiden. They take their viewers on their discovery of their living environment through vlogs. In 2023 they were in Zoetermeer and visited Molen De Hoop, National Videogame Museum and the Westerpark. You see sunny images of the Wilhelminapark, the Mandela bridge and the Stadshart. Travis especially likes Zoetermeer because of the MediaMarkt.

Zoetermeerse Bever

Hidden between the bushes in the Balijbos lives a beaver. The male lives there alone and eats from plants, shrubs and trees. According to forest ranger Liza, there is little chance that a female will find the area, so family expansion is not possible. Omroep West made an interesting report.

Stick

Every week Sidney Schmeltz visits another city for his YouTube channel. In 2022 he was for his program Sidney pasting in Stadshart Zoetermeer. There he spoke with different people on the street while he walked through the shopping street. Together with a group of young people he played a game of basketball and recorded that on video.

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