Top 75 unknown Facts, and Statistics about YouTube.

Top 75 unknown Facts, and Statistics about YouTube. 

What is YouTub?

YouTube is the most popular video sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees— Jawed Karim, Steve Chen, and Chad Hurley, —created the service in February 2005. where users can create their own profile , upload videos, watch, like and comment. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries.

Top 75 unknown Facts, and Statistics about YouTube. 

1) The YouTube.com domain was bought on Valentine’s Day, 2005.

2) In November 2006, Google purchased YouTube for $1.65 Billion, Which was a lot of money at the time, but looks like a pittance now considering the value of YouTube.

3) In 2007, YouTube began including ads before videos.

4) In 2007, the company began the “YouTube Awards” to recognize great content.

5) Winners receive a trophy, which is a large glass play button.

6) On July 21, 2009 YouTube announced that users could now upload 3D videos.

7) Full HD was released on YouTube in November 2009.

8) It’s estimated that one third of YouTube’s total revenue is paid to copyright holders.

9) YouTube’s first headquarters were above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, CA.

10) The first YouTube video was titled “Me at the zoo” and shows founder co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo.

11) "Me at the zoo” was uploaded at 8:27 PM on Saturday, April 23, 2005.

12) The 19 second video ( Me at the zoo ) has been viewed over 71 million times.

13) The first video to reach 1 million views was a Nike Ad featuring Ronaldinho in September 2005.

14) YouTube is the second largest search engine after Google.

15) 70% of YouTube videos are viewed on mobile devices.

16) 80% of YouTube traffic comes from outside the US.

17) In January 2015, YouTube announced that it would support 360° videos.

18) 360° videos can be viewed on Google Cardboard VR Headsets.

19) In 2012, a YouTube video called “The Innocence of Muslims” caused international anti-American demonstrations.

20) YouTube’s top earner is Felix Arvid Ulf Kjelberg AKA PewDiePie.

21) PewDiePie earns an estimated $12 million per year from his YouTube channel.

22) With 97 million subscribers, PewDiePie’s has the most subscribers of any channel on YouTube.

23) PewDiePie’s channel originally contained videos of him playing and reviewing video games, but quickly branched out to include other content.

24) On July 19 2014, PewDiePie’s channel surpassed Rihanna’s Vevo account to become the channel with the most total views of all time.

25) In 2007, British Prime Minister Tony Blair became the first world leader with a YouTube channel.

26) Members of the “YouTube Partners Program” may include ads before their videos, for which they keep, on average, 55% of the revenue. YouTube keeps the remaining 45%.

27) YouTube viewers are even split female and male, but men spend 44% more time on their sites.

28) The average YouTube user accesses the site 14 times per month.

29) The average user spends 15 to 25 minutes on YouTube per visit.

30) The most viewed YouTube video is “ DESPACITO” by Luis fonsi with over 6.30 billion views.

31) On Facebook, over 150 years of YouTube video are watched every day.

32) There are over 400 tweets per minute containing a link to a YouTube video.

33) YouTube was originally created by three former PayPal employees. ( Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, Jawed Karim, )

34) On November 12, 2014 YouTube launched its first premium service, originally called “Music Key.”

35) On October 28, 2015 the Service was relaunched as “YouTube Red.”

36) For a monthly subscription fee, YouTube Red offers ad-free streaming of all videos and access to exclusive original content.

37) YouTube mobile was launched in June 2007.

38) Not all YouTube videos are available on YouTube mobile.

39) The most like video is “DESPACITO” by Luis fonsi with 33.89 million likes.

40) The most disliked video is “ YouTube Rewind 2018: Everyone Controls Rewind" by YouTube Spotlight with 16.7 million dislike. 

41) In 2011, YouTube surpassed 1 trillion views.

42) YouTube is the 3rd most visited website in the world.

43) The longest video on YouTube is 571 hours, 1 minutes, and 41 seconds long. 

44) YouTube has launched local versions in more than 91 countries.

45) You can navigate YouTube in a total of 80 different languages (covering 95% of the Internet population).

46) The number of channels earning six figures per year on YouTube grew more than 40% y/y.

47) The number of channels earning five figures per year on YouTube grew more than 50% y/y.

48) The number of channels with more than one million subscribers grew by more than 75% y/y.

49) Over 5 billion hours of video are viewed on YouTube every day.

50) In May 2010, YouTube served more than 2 billion views a day.

51) The platform has over 1.9bn logged in monthly users.

52) 6 out of 10 people prefer online video platforms to live TV.

53) The most viewed “user generated” YouTube video is “Charlie Bit my Finger” with over 869 million views.

54) By 2025, half of viewers under 32will not subscribe to a pay-TV service

55) In an average month, 8 out of 10,18-49 year-olds watch YouTube

56) 400 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute

57) We watch over 1 billion hours of YouTube videos a day, more than Netflix and Facebook videocombined

58) The video with the most views that isn’t a music video is ‘Masha and The Bear – Recipe for disaster (Episode 17)’ by Get Movies. It currently has over 3bn views

59) The most popular YouTube channel belongs to PewDiePie, followed by T-Series, and 5-Minute Crafts (not included YouTube’s automatically generated channels).

60) On average, there are 1,000,000,000 mobile video views per day.

61) 81% of US parents use YouTube to find content for their children.

62) Over half of YouTube users use the site to work out how to do things they’ve not done before.

63) 9% of U.S small businesses use YouTube

64) As of October 2014, YouTube has paid out $2 billion to rights holders since 2007

65) The most popular branded channel is currently LEGO, which has amassed over 6bn views

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67) In 2018, the 95% of the most watched videos were music videos

68) Searches of “how to” videos on YouTube are growing 70% year on year

69) The most subscribed non-English YouTube Channel is currently HolaSoyGerman, a Spanish-language comedy channel. 

70) YouTube is estimated to be worth up to $160 billion.

71) The video to reach 1 billion views fastest was “Hello” by Adele.

72) “Hello” by Adele reached 1 billion views in 87.4 days.

73) The second quickest video to reach 1 billion views is “DESPACITO” by Luis fonsi,  which reached 1 billion views in 96.5 days.

74) There are currently 163 videos on YouTube that have over 1 Billion Views.

75) The most searched term on YouTube is ‘despacito’, followed by ‘bts’.


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