10 Jaw dropping YouTube facts you should know.
YouTube is globally the most watched video platform headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States, but there’s lot more you probably don’t know about the site. Lets cut straight to the number of YouTube facts you should know right now.
- YouTube founded on Valentine’s Day :
Yes you heard it right, YouTube the video hosting service came into existence on February 14, 2005. The first ever video on YouTube was posted by co- founder Jawed Karim two months later the domain name YouTube.com was bought. - First uploaded video on YouTube :
As we mentioned earlier in first point, the first video was uploaded by the co-founder Jawed Karim. Interestingly, the inaugural video titled “ Me at the zoo” posted on April 23 rd ,2005 and has been viewed over 81 Million times as of December 2019. - YouTube began as a venture capital :
YouTube began as a funded technology setup initially from $11.5 Million investment by Sequoia capital and $8 million investment from Artis capital between 2005 and 2006. It is believed that the three YouTube founders— Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and jawed Karim, all worked for PayPal used their money from eBay’s buyout of PayPal to fund the sites primarily development. - Google owns the YouTube site :
Google bought the site in November 2006 for an astonishing amount of $1.65 billion. It was considered as a whopping amount of that time but now as of 2019, it looks completely minor considering the current value of YouTube. The services first Ad was broadcast in August 2007. - First YouTube video to hit million mark :
Ronaldinho, who is famous for his cool soccer tricks and known to be one of the greatest football player ever come across in the world. He has the video produced by Nike where he is showing tricks with football and thanks to his humongous popularity, the video became the first to hit million views on October 2005. Gradually, Avril Lavigne was the first to cross 100 million views and Gangnam style became the first video to smash the 1 billion barrier. - Most disliked video of YouTube :
Justin Bieber song ‘Baby’ was the most disliked song which received more than 10 million dislikes in nine years from the time it had been live. However, the record was smashed by YouTube Rewind 2018. Within one month of its availability, it turned out to be the biggest disliked video with an incredible 15 million dislikes. - Investing in Creators :
The number of channels earning six figures per year on YouTube grew more than 40% y/y. The number of channels earning five figures per year on YouTube grew more than 50% y/y. The number of channels with more than one million subscribers grew by more than 65% y/y. - Global Track of YouTube :
More than 70% of YouTube watch time comes from mobile devices. YouTube is believed to have launched local versions in more than 100 countries. We can even navigate YouTube in a total of 80 different languages. Over 2 billion logged in users visit YouTube each month and every day people watch over 1 billion hours of videos. - YouTube is worth of Billions :
The current revenue of YouTube is roaming around $15 billion which further led the wall street analyst to give the brand value of more than $100 billion. That just blows out the mind. - YouTube is still not an Ace :
With all the aforementioned facts and figures we mentioned, YouTube is still the second most visited site in the globe. The Google.com is the First most visited site in the world. Facebook, Baidu and Wikipedia grabs the rest positions in the top five.
So there you got it; we brought out the most phenomenon facts and figures of YouTube to you. If you really like these intersting facts and want to know more about the other platforms, make sure to pass your comments in the comment section below. Good luck !