Interesting facts of YouTube
When YouTube first made its way onto the internet, few people realized how many hours of video they’d be watching years later.
It seems the internet never gets bored of watching videos, so now there is an entire library’s worth of YouTube facts.
Instead of presenting you with the entire library, we’ve handpicked the most interesting facts of YouTube and categorized them for you in one simple blog post.
before talking about facts of YouTube first let’s explain its History.
YouTube history
The domain name “YouTube.com” was activated on February 14, 2005
The first YouTube video was uploaded on 23 April 2005. I at the Zoo shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo
On October 9, 2006, it was announced that YouTube would be purchased by Google for US$1.65 billion
The first adverts were rolled out in August 2007
In May 2010, YouTube served more than 2 billion views a day.
YouTube first streamed the US Presidential debates in 2012.
By March 2013, YouTube was seeing 1bn monthly active users.
Interesting facts of YouTube
- YouTube began on Valentine’s Day
- PayPal Funded YouTube’s Launch
- YouTube channels produce a massive amount of content every week
- Google Owns YouTube
- There Are 98 Versions of YouTube
- Most popular YouTube channels don’t produce content in English
- YouTube Has Been sensed Around the World
- The worth of YouTube
- YouTube Is Growing in Popularity
- The Most Popular Non-Music Video Is in Russian
- YouTube Boasts 57,000 Years of Video Footage
The YouTube usage of the world
YouTube is the world’s second-largest search engine and second most visited site after Google.
YouTube is the 2nd most popular social media platform with 1.9bn users.
500 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute.
We watch over 1 billion hours of YouTube videos a day, more than Netflix and Facebook videos combined.
70% of YouTube views come from mobile devices.
The average mobile viewing session lasts more than 40 minutes.
The first video to hit one million views was a Nike advert featuring Ronaldinho.
It took Gangnam Style, a previous most-watched video, five months to hit 1 billion views.
The most-watched video of 2019 was Con Calma by Daddy Yankee & Snow.
The most-upvoted video of 2019 was Señorita by Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello.
The most-downvoted video of 2019 was YouTube’s own 2019 rewind. Ouch.
On average, there are 1,000,000,000 mobile video views per day.
The most searched term on YouTube is ‘despacito’, followed by ‘bts’. In the US the biggest search term is ‘pewdiepie’.
81% of US parents use YouTube to find content for their children.
YouTube began on Valentine’s Day
The YouTube.com domain was bought on Valentine’s Day, 2005. The first video was posted by co-founder Jawed Karim a little over two months later.
PayPal Funded YouTube’s Launch
The three YouTube founders-Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim-all worked for PayPal. They used their money from eBay’s buyout of PayPal to fund the site’s early development.
YouTube channels generate a massive amount of content every week
As of January 2019, nearly 44,000 YouTube channels had at least 250,000 subscribers. Collectively, these popular channels uploaded 48,486 hours of content and received over 14.2 billion individual views in the first week of 2019 alone.
Google Owns YouTube
Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion in October 2006. Which was a lot of money at the time, but looks like a pittance now considering the value of YouTube.
There Are 98 Versions of YouTube
Fast-forward to today, and the localization program has expanded dramatically. More than 98 countries now have their own version. The most recent went live in January 2019. They were Bolivia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, and Uruguay.
Most popular YouTube channels don’t produce content in English
During the first week of 2019, 56% of popular YouTube channels uploaded at least one video. Of those that did, just 33% uploaded a video in English. Across all of the videos these channels uploaded during the week, just 17% were completely in English.
YouTube Has Been sensed Around the World
YouTube’s mission to get into households on every corner of the planet has not always been plain sailing. At various times, more than 25 countries have blocked access. All the usual suspects are there, as well as some surprises such as Germany, Finland, and Brazil.
The worth of YouTube
Today, YouTube’s annual revenue hovers around $15 billion. This has led Wall Street analysts to give the brand a value of more than $100 billion.
YouTube Is Growing in Popularity
YouTube’s assault on traditional forms of television shows no signs of abating. The most recent data available shows that the time spent on YouTube has been enjoying double-digit percentage growth. At the same time, time spent watching TV is seeing a double-digit decline.
The Most Popular Non-Music Video Is in Russian
The only non-music video in the most-watched YouTube videos of all time is a Russian-language version of an episode of kids’ TV show, Masha and The Bear. It has been watched 3.4 billion times and counting.
YouTube Boasts 57,000 Years of Video Footage
The average video length on YouTube is four minutes and 20 seconds, and there are approximately 7 billion videos on the website in total.
Conclusion
So there you have it; that’s our list of the most interesting YouTube facts. and we hope you enjoy reading it.
