YouTube is no doubt, the biggest video sharing service in the world.
It would certainly be a surprise if that changed anytime soon!
No matter how you use it, these YouTube facts are worth a read!
➦YouTube was founded on February 14th (Valentine’s Day), 2005 by three ex-PayPal employees.(Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim)
➦It was originally funded with the bonuses that the employees received when eBay bought out PayPal.
➦The first ever YouTube video was uploaded on April 23, 2005. It is a video of its co-founder at the San Diego Zoo.
➦Initially, YouTube was created to be a video dating site called “Tune In Hook Up.”
➦Only 18 months after YouTube was founded, Google bought it for $1.65 billion in stocks.
➦There are over one billion users on YouTube, which is nearly one-third of everyone on the Internet.
➦YouTube opened a production space in Los Angeles that is free to use – but only if you have at least 10,000 subscribers.
➦The oldest cat video on YouTube is dated back to 1894. It features two cats boxing.
➦Every minute, over 500 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube.
➦In 2014, the famous YouTube star, Grumpy Cat, earned more money Gwyneth Paltrow – an Oscar-Winning Actress.
➦Google of course, is the biggest search engine in the world. But right behind it, is YouTube, which is bigger than Bing, Yahoo!, and Ask combined.
➦Every April Fool’s Day, YouTube plays a prank on its millions of users.
➦Every month, YouTubers watch billions of hours of videos per month, and approx 24 billion videos every day.
➦Based on a 2013 study, 60% of the 1,000 most viewed YouTube videos are banned in Germany.
➦Based on a 2013 study, 60% of the 1,000 most viewed YouTube videos are banned in Germany.
➦The most popular tutorial that is searched for is “How to kiss.”
The second most searched for tutorial is “how to tie a tie.”
➦The most viewed music video on YouTube is Despacito by Luis Fonsi featuring Daddy Yankee posted on January 12, 2017. As of date, the video has been viewed over 5.8 billion times!
➦The longest video on YouTube is 571 hours, 1 minute, and 41 seconds long. That’s the same as 23 days and 19 hours!
➦Every day, over 150 years of YouTube are watched on Facebook.
➦There is a program to scan for copyright infringement called Automated Content ID – it scans over 100 years of video every day.
➦Last but not least, here is an interesting YouTube Infographic by Shortymedia, which gives some mind-blowing facts and numbers from YouTube:
Well, since its birth to the most popular superhero of YouTube, I tried to collect the most important Facts about YouTube. I hope your mind also blown like me after reading these terrific facts.
I hope you really enjoyed these interesting facts.
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