DID YOU KNOW

• 1 billion hours of video are watched on YouTube every day.

• Every minute, more than 500 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube.

• YouTube has over 2 billion users, almost one-third of all people on the Internet.

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

• YouTube was founded by 3 former employees of PayPal.

• Music video ‘Gangnam Style’ was so popular, it broke YouTube’s view counter, which had to be upgraded.

• You can navigate YouTube in more than 80 different languages, covering 95% of the Internet population.

• 32 million inappropriate videos were removed from YouTube in 2018 by a team of 10,000 reviewers.

• 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.

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

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

• 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.”

• On mobile alone, YouTube reaches more youngsters (18-34 year olds) in the US than any TV network.

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