25 Amazing YouTube Facts

Youtube Is One of the world’s most popular video sharing website. YouTube is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think Dailymotion or Facebook Video is big, but that’s just peanuts to YouTube.
Most of you know that it is a video sharing website owned by Google where users upload, view and share videos. But what you don’t know about YouTube is what this article is all about. Here are my favourite youtube facts which will blow your mind.

Do you use YouTube if Your Answer is Yes, here's Some Interesting Youtube Facts you should know:-

1. Founders Of Youtube

YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steven Chen, and Jawed Karim, former employees of PayPal, an online commerce website. They registered the domain name in February 2005. It was officially launched in December of that year.

2. How YouTube Was Born

The idea came to its founders at a dinner party at Steve Chen’s place in San Francisco when due to some email attachment error they were not able to share the videos of the party that night. It is also said that the infamous wardrobe malfunction of Janet Jackson (Super Bowl XXXVIII) also set the launching point of YouTube as Jawed Karim was not able to find its footage.

3. First Video

The very first video on YouTube was launched at 8:27 PM on Saturday April 23rd, 2005 where one of the co-founder Jawed Karim posted the video of his visit to the San Diego Zoo. Karim talked about elephant’s trunks in this video titled “Me at zoo”.

4. Most Watched Videos [Musical & non-Musical]

The most watched video which is not a music video is “Charlie Bit My Finger”. At the time of this post it has around 562 million views. In Musical Gangnam style is the most watched video ever, currently sitting on just under 2.5+ billion views.

5. Gangnam Style Passed YouTube’s Original Count Limit

Psy’s Gangnam Style video very nearly hit the 2,147,483,647 play count limit in YouTube’s code. The coders were forced to quickly rewrite a few things to change the play count limit, so we can all aim for 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 plays now. Is that high enough for you?

6. YouTube Is The Second Largest Search Engine

YouTube is the second largest search engine after Google (bigger than Bing, Yahoo!, and Ask combined).

7. Full Hd Videos

Full HD on YouTube was released in November 2009.

8. Number Of YouTube visitors.

YouTube has 800 million+ monthly unique visitors, which is more than the entire population of Europe.

9. Facebook Still Has More Users

It’s true that YouTube dominates in the world of video, but in terms of user numbers, Facebook still comes out ahead. A 2014 Pew Research Centre study says that 77% of Americans are on Facebook, but only 63% are on YouTube. Both social media giants are still towering over the other networks, with LinkedIn at 25%, Google+ at 24% and Twitter at 21%.

10. YouTube Started as a Dating Site.

Presumably co-founders Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim weren’t quite satisfied after finally seeing the Wardrobe Malfunction incident, as they started YouTube as a dating site. If you don’t believe me, check out the Wayback Machine’s archived version of the 2005 YouTube . Apparently it was based on the “Hot or Not” site, but it didn’t really catch on.

11. 30% of Videos Account for 99% of Traffic

In April of 2011, a YouTube software engineer revealed that almost all of YouTube’s traffic came from 30% of the videos. It’s possible that this statistic hasn’t changed much since then, as lots of people are just uploading videos to share with family and friends.

12. Business

YouTube has signed over 10,000 advertising partners to date, including Disney, Turner, Univision and Channel 4 and Channel 5. Thousands of partners are making six figures a year. Currently, there are over amillion members of the YouTube Partner Program.

13. Usage

YouTube usage is tremendous; YouTube videos of length around 500years are watched every single day on Facebook.

14. Users

More than 1 billion unique users visit YouTube each month.

15. Audience nationality

Only 30% of YouTube’s traffic comes from USA. Other countries contribute 70% of the traffic.

16. Time needed to watch all videos

It is said that it would take over 1,700 years to watch all the video content on YouTube.

18. Uploading frequency

100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. It has been found that more videos are uploaded to YouTube in 60 days than the 3 major US networks created in 60 years.

19. YouTube's Annual April Fools Pranks

For the last three years YouTube has pranked its millions of users every April Fools Day. The first was a classic — every video on the site's homepage was actually a Rickroll. In 2009 YouTube turned the site upside down and in 2010 an attempt to reduce bandwidth costs saw a "TEXTp" mode introduced, which translated colors inthe videos into text. We can't wait to see what YouTube has in store for 2011.

20. The YouTube "Snake" Easter Egg Game

YouTube has a fun Easter egg that will let you play a Snake-esque game within the video window. The clip above will give you a demo, but it's simple to execute if you're keen to try it out. Head over to YouTube, click on a recent video from any category, pause it and then hit the left and up arrow keys at the same time. Enjoy!

21. U.A.E. and Saudi Arabia have the highest per capita YouTube viewership in the world

Due to strict and often government dictated TV programming, young people from countries such as Saudi Arabia and U.A.E. have taken to YouTube in their millions to create relatable and enjoyable content for their fellow younger humans. We’re so good to you at Ten Eighty. We expect a ‘World’s Greatest Teacher’ mug and a shiny red apple.

22. The Most Popular Cat

the most popular cat on YouTube is Nyan Cat Grumpy Cat needs to sit herself backdown and leave the job to the veterans. Nyan Cat is YouTube’s favourite furry feline with over 120 million views. Nyan, nyan, n-nyan n- NO IT’S STUCK IN OUR HEADSAGAIN.

23. You can navigate YouTube in a total of 76 different languages

You can scroll through YouTube in a huge number of languages from Albanian to Uzbeck, covering over 95% of the internet population. We’restill waiting for Dothraki, but i’m sure we’ll be sitting around for a while on that one… Hash yer ray tih zhavors chiorisi anni?

24. Half of YouTube views worldwide are on a mobile device

People say that we’re a generation who’s addicted to their mobiles – and with access to YouTube on them can you really blame us?! Half of all of the videos watched on YouTube are done so using a tablet, phone or similar.

25. Social Networks

Over half the videos on YouTube have been commented on or rated by users. Links to videos on YouTube are contained with morethan 600 tweets per minute. On Facebook, 500 years of videos from YouTube are viewed per minute. Every week on YouTube there are 100 million social actions such as comments, likes or shares.Videos automatically shared to Twitter on average generate 7 new sessions on YouTube.

Sources:-
Youtube Press
Google
News
Shortymedia.

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