YouTube is an American video-sharing website, headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States. Here are few interesting yet less known YouTube facts:
- The world’s most popular video-sharing website YouTube was cofounded by the three former PayPal employees – Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim – on 14 February 2005.
- YouTube originally began its life as an online video dating site dubbed ‘Tune In Hook Up’ which was influenced by HotorNot.
- The domain name youtube.com was registered on Valentine’s Day in 2005.
- Me at the zoo – The very first video on YouTube from one of the co-founders Jawed Karim, uploaded on 23 April 2005.
- In October 2006, Google has bought an 18-month-old video-sharing website YouTube for $1.65 billion.
- Do you know you can view the “YouTube Charts” at any time to see continually updated information about what’s popular?
- Despacito by Luis Fonsi ft. Daddy Yankee is the most viewed video on Youtube with over 5.9 billion views. (S)
- Over 2 billion logged-in users visit YouTube each month. Surprisingly, that’s almost one-third of all people on the Internet. (S)
- Today, one billion hours of videos are being watched on Youtube every day, that’s generating billions of views. (S)
- More than half of YouTube views come from mobile devices. (S)
- Today, YouTube is localized in over 100 countries and can be accessed in 80 different languages. (S)
- As of March 2015, creators filming in YouTube Spaces have produced over 10,000 videos which have generated over 1 billion views and 70+ million hours of watch time.(S)
- As of July 2016, YouTube has paid out two billion dollars to rightsholders who have chosen to monetize claims since Content ID first launched in 2007.(S)
- YouTube has more than 50 million active reference files in its Content ID database, making it the most comprehensive in the world. (S)
- YouTube is localized in more than 100 countries and can be accessed in 76 different languages.(S)
- Incredibly, the Royal Wedding of Britain’s Prince Harry and Meghan Markle live stream was viewed 11.2 million times while live. (S)
- YouTube is popular on TV screens too, over 150 million hours of YouTube watchtime per day on TV screens alone. (S)
- YouTube Brandcast was received well by the audience, reaching over 700 million views across all episodes.(S)
- YouTube has 1.8 billion monthly logged-in users as of March 2018.(S)