YouTube Facts

Lets have look at the interesting facts about YouTube..

Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim

All 3 founders of YouTube were ex-employees of PayPal

Over 100 hours of video are uploaded every minute to YouTube

 YouTube has over a billion users, almost one-third of all people who use Internet.

 First video to YouTube was uploaded on 23 April 2005 featuring co-founder Jawed karim at 

the San Diego Zoo

Google bought YouTube for US$1.65 billion in stocks just 18 months after YouTube's creation.

Gangnam Style

 YouTube’s view counter was broken by the popularity of ‘Gangnam Style’ video. So was view counter had to be upgraded.

YouTube can be navigated  in more than 75 different languages.

 YouTube’s production space in Los Angeles is free to use if and only you have 10,000 subscribers

 

The woman who rented her garage to Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998 when they were creating Google later became the CEO of YouTube .

 

YouTube’s oldest video of cats dates from 1894.

 

YouTube star Grumpy Cat earned more money than Oscar-Winning Actress Gwyneth Paltrow in 2014.

YouTube is bigger than Bing, Yahoo!, and Ask combined to become second largest search engine, right after Google.

YouTube's early headquarters were situated above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California.

If you search for "Do the Harlem shake" on YouTube, the page itself will do the Harlem shake for you

YouTube’s most disliked video is Justin Bieber's "Baby," with over 4,400,000 dislikes.

 

YouTube's 60% of videos and 1,000 most popular videos are blocked in Germany

YouTube's ten highest-earning channels made anywhere from US$2.5 million to US$12 million in 2015

 

At YouTube's headquarters, employees can either take the elevator, stairs or a big slide.

 

YouTube’s most searched tutorial is "How to Kiss."

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