Facts About YouTube

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1 – YouTube was founded in 2005 by three former PayPal employees – Jawed Karim, Steve Chen and Chad Hurley.

2 – It is currently the third most popular website on the internet.

3 – The first video ever uploaded to YouTube was titled “Me at the Zoo.”

4 – In 2006, Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion dollars and it became a subsidiary of Google Incorporated.

5 – Users upload an average of 60 hours worth of content every minute to Youtube.

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6 – There are over four million channels with more than one thousand subscribers each on Youtube.

7 – Every minute, one hundred hours of video content are watched on youtube.

8 – By 2020, it’s predicted that 80% of all internet traffic will be from video.

9 – There are more than one billion videos on YouTube.

10 – The most watched YouTube video is the Baby Shark Dance by the Pinkfong Kids Songs and Stories with 7.91 billion views.

The second top YouTube video is Despacito by Luis Fonsi featuring Daddy Yankee.

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11 – The first YouTuber was Jawed Karim who was also a founder of YouTube.

12 – The most famous YouTuber is PewDiePie with over 102 million subscribers.

13 – Fred Mills was the first person in the worldto reach one million subscribers.

14 – Gangnam Style by Psy was the first YouTube video hit one billion views on December 2012. By June 2014 it hit 2 billion views and by January 2018 it hit 3 billion views.

15 – YouTube has been blocked in China since 2009 because it poses a threat to the country’s authoritarian government and provides an outlet for free speech that cannot be controlled or censored.

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16 – YouTube was originally designed to be a dating website.

17 – In 2006, YouTube had 30 million unique visitors and two years later it reached 100 million.

18 – The name “YouTube” is a play on the word “eutube,” which means “to upload.”

19 – YouTube’s headquarters are in San Bruno, California.

20 – You can’t copyright a title or thumbnail image – but you CAN copyright your video!

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21 – In 2013, a video of two cats playing with a ball of yarn became one of the site’s most popular videos ever.

22 – There are more than 2 billion unique viewers on YouTube every day.

23 – There are a number of different ways that you can monetize your videos on YouTube, including adding ads before or during the video and using an affiliate program.

24 – One way that you can make money from youtube is through Google’s Adwords platform. Adwords allows advertisers to show their ads next to related search results or content on the web for a set period of time (called an auction).

Ads may be shown while someone watches videos about certain topics or when they visit websites where those topics are discussed.

For example, if someone searches “baking” then they might see ads for baking supplies such as flour and sugar next to their search result page because these advertisers have bid specifically on this keyword phrase.

These bids are called keywords bids and range from very high paying ones like “cheap flights.”

25 – YouTube first streamed the US Presidential Debate in 2012.

A YouTube channel Ryan Kaji from ToysReview brings in over $22 million dollars per year making him one of the highest earning YouTubers.

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