YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries.
- Every minute, more than 500 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube.
- The First YouTube Video was uploaded in April 2005, featuring its co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo.
- YouTube was founded by 3 former employees of PayPal.
- YouTube has over 2 billion users, almost one-third of all people on the Internet.
- 1 billion hoursof video are watched on YouTube every day.
- You can navigate YouTube in more than 80 different languages, covering 95% of the Internet population.
- Music video 'Gangnam Style' was so popular, it broke YouTube's view counter, which had to be upgraded.
- 32 million inappropriate videos were removed from YouTube in 2018 by a team of 10,000 reviewers.
- The woman who rented her garage to Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998 when they were creating Google later became the CEO of YouTube.
- YouTube's early headquarters were situated above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California.
- The oldest video of cats on YouTube dates from 1894.
- YouTube is the second largest search engine, right after Google. It's bigger than Bing, Yahoo!, and Ask combined.
- Anne Frank is on YouTube. She was captured on film while leaning out of her window to get a good look of a wedding.
- US$ 22 millionwere earned by 7 year old YouTube star Ryan, from Toys review, in 2018.
- The most disliked video on YouTube is Justin Bieber's "Baby," with over 4,400,000 dislikes.
- If you search for "Do the Harlem shake" on YouTube, the page itself will do the harlem shake for you.
- YouTube's ten highest-earning channels made anywhere from US $ 2.5 million to US $ 12 million in 2015.
- 60% of YouTube's 1,000 most popular videos are blocked in Germany.
- 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."
- Google bought YouTube for US $ 1.65 billion in stocks just 18 months after YouTube's creation.
- On mobile alone, YouTube reaches more youngsters (18-34 year olds) in the US than any TV network.
- Family Guy once used footage from 9-year-old YouTube video in one of its episodes without permission from the owner. The owner's original clip was then removed from Youtube for copyright infringement.
- YouTube star Grumpy Cat earned more money than Oscar Winning Actress Gwyneth Paltrow in 2014.
- YouTube has a production space in Los Angeles that is free to use if you have 10,000 subscribers.