Amazing Facts About YouTube


Amazing Facts About YouTube



#Fact 1.YouTube was created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim in 2005 who were all employees of PayPal


#Fact 2.It was originally funded with the bonuses that the employees received when eBay bought out PayPal.


#Fact 3.The first ever YouTube video was uploaded on April 23, 2005.It is a video of its co-founder at the San Diego Zoo.Me at the zoo” was uploaded at 8:27 PM on Saturday, April 23, 2005.


#Fact 4.Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion in October 2006.Which was a lot of money at the time, but looks like a pittance now considering the value of YouTube.


#Fact 5.Initially, YouTube was created to be a video dating site called “Tune In Hook Up.”


#Fact 6.There are over one billion users on YouTube, which is nearly one-third of everyone on the Internet.


#Fact 7.YouTube opened a production space in Los Angeles that is free to use – but only if you have at least 10,000 subscribers.


#Fact 8.The oldest cat video on YouTube is dated back to 1894. It features two cats boxing.


#Fact 9.Every minute, over 100 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube.


#Fact 10.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.


#Fact 11.Every month, YouTubers watch 6 billion hours of videos per month, and 4 billion videos every day.


#Fact 12.Aside from the U.S., the most YouTube views come from Saudi Arabia.This is because TV, Facebook, and Twitter are banned in Saudi Arabia, but YouTube is unrestricted.


#Fact 13.The most popular tutorial that is searched for is “How to kiss.” The second most searched for tutorial is “how to tie a tie.”


#Fact 14.The most popular topic that is searched for is of course, music!


#Fact 15.The total amount of videos uploaded in 2010 is the equivalent of 150,000+ full-length movies in theaters every week.


#Fact 16.The first world leader to create a YouTube channel was the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair who made his account in 2007.


#Fact 17.The longest video on YouTube is 571 hours, 1 minute, and 41 seconds long. That’s the same as 23 days and 19 hours!

#Fact 18.The video to first reach 1 billion views the fastest was Hello by Adele. It reached 1 billion views in 88 days.


#Fact 19.The video to reach the most views in the first day of being uploaded is the Star Wars: The Force Awakens Official Teaser #2. It reached 112 million views in 24 hours.


#Fact 20.Justin Bieber is one of the first YouTube success stories.He posted covers on YouTube which were discovered by Usher which paved the road to his astounding level of fame.


#Fact 21.In Thailand, YouTube was blocked for 5 months in 2007 due to a 44 second video that showed pictures of the king being defaced.


#Fact 22.There is a program to scan for copyright infringement called Automated Content ID – it scans over 100 years of video every day.


#Fact 23.Every minute, there are 400 tweets going out that include a link to a YouTube video.


#Fact 24.In 2011, 30% of all the videos on YouTube account for over 99% of views.


#Fact 25.Google is the largest ad company in the world, and it didn’t take long for it to start monetizing YouTube. The service’s first ad was broadcast in August 2007, just nine months after Google bought the site.


#Fact 26.Despite all of these amazing statistics, YouTube is still only the second most visited site in the world (behind Google.com).According to Alexa.com, Facebook, Baidu, and Wikipedia round out the rest of the top five.


#Fact 27.The most-watched non-music video is “Masha and the Bear”, a Russian animated television series created by Oleg Kuzovkov.At the time of this post, it has around 3.36 BILLION views!

#Fact 28.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!


#Fact 29.The average number of mobile YouTube video views per day is 1,000,000,000.


#Fact 30.Only 20% of YouTube’s traffic comes from the USA. Other countries contribute 80% of the traffic.

#Fact 31.The domain name youtube.com was registered on Valentine’s Day in 2005, and the name was all goofed up as “Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment” the domain of which was utube.com.
utube.com was bombarded with people looking for YouTube which led Universal Tube to change its domain name to www.utubeonline. It was then that the confusion among the customers/users of both the companies was cleared.

#Fact 32.The most disliked video is “YouTube  rewind 2018”  which received 15 million dislikes.

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