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YOUTUBE FACTS



- Every minute, more than 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube.

- YouTube's statistics at the end of 2015 claim that more than 400 hours of video was uploaded to the site per minute.

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

- The First YouTube Video was uploaded on April 23, 2005, featuring its co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo.

- YouTube was founded by 3 former employees(Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim) of Paypal.

- Google bought YouTube for US $1.6 billion stocks just 18 months after YouTube's creation.

- Music video "Gangnam Style" was so popular, it broke YouTube's view counter, which had to be upgraded.

- YouTube can be navigate in more than 75 different languages, covering 95% of the Internet population.

- YouTube has a production space in Los Angeles that is free to use if you have 10,000 subscribers.

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

- The oldest video of cats on YouTube dates from 1894.

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

- YouTube is the second largest search engine, right after Google. It's bigger than Bing, Yahoo! and Ask combined.

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

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

- 60% of YouTube's 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.

- The most searched tutorial on YouTube is "How to Kiss".

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