YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees-Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google’s subsidiaries. In this article, I’m going to share some of the interesting, unknown and amazing facts about YouTube.
What are some amazing facts about YouTube?
- YouTube was initially started as a video dating site named “Tune In Hook Up” which was inspired by the then-popular Hot or Not.finally they dropped down this idea.
- Chad Hurley, Steve Chan and Jawed Karim started YouTube.These three founders worked together at the then-Internet start-up, PayPal.
- Batman is the most popular of all superheroes on YouTube, with more than 3 billion views of 71,000 hours of video.
- YouTube has 9 production spaces around the world in Berlin, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai, New York, Paris, Rio, Tokyo and Toronto that are free to use if you have 10,000 subs.
- Google paid $1.65 billion for YouTube in November of 2006.
- YouTube has over 2 Billion active users, almost one-third of all people on the internet.
- With continuous upgradation you can navigate YouTube in more than 80 different languages, covering 95% of the internet population.
- Over 1 billion hours of video are watched on YouTube every 24 hours.
- The first video was uploaded in April 2005 by its co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego zoo.
- Over 32 million inappropriate videos were removed from YouTube in 2019 by a team of 10,000 reviewers.
- YouTube’s early HQ was situated above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California.
- YouTube is the second largest search engine, right after Google.
- YouTube has its own production space in Los Angelos that is free to use if you have 10,000 subscribers.
- The video “Hello” of Adele made 100 million views in just five days. She had actually hit 50 million views in 48 hours(2 days) making it the most successful YouTube debut.
- The World’s highest-paid YouTube stars earned a combined total of $54.5 million in 2015. The highest-paid YouTube partner is “PewDiePie” with annual income reaching $12 million for 2015.
- More than half of YouTube views come from mobile devices.
- Gangnam Style is the most-watched video ever, currently sitting on just under 2.5 billion views. I’m guessing a lot of views came from people musing over the following fact.
- The most searched tutorial on YouTube is “How to Kiss.“
- You can navigate YouTube in more than 80 different languages, covering 95% of the Internet population.
- The most disliked video on YouTube is Justin Bieber’s “Baby,” with over 4,400,000 dislikes.
- YouTube star Grumpy Cat earned more money than Oscar-Winning Actress Gwyneth Paltrow in 2014.
- At YouTube’s headquarters, employees can either take the elevator, stairs or a big slide.
- YouTube’s viewers are approximately 44% female and 56% male. Most viewers are 12-17 years old.
- Since April 1, 2008, YouTube has annually featured an April Fool’s prank on its site.
- If you share the offline video using Bluetooth, instead of the actual file, a web link to the video is sent to the recipient.
- Not all videos can be saved offline.
- YouTube can ban you or block your channel and videos, based on even a fake complaint filed by your competitors. The whole process is fully automated, so don’t think that YouTube will take pains to check the authenticity of the complaint filed against you.
- Even some celebrities have got their videos blocked. To name a few…Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Rihanna…
- The highest-paid Youtuber is 8 YEARS OLD! Have you heard of “Ryan’s Toys Review” He earned an estimated 26 Million in 2019. No matter what age you are, you can crush it on YouTube!
- The average number of mobile YouTube video views per day is 1,000,000,000.
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