13 Amazing YouTube Facts You Didn’t Know

in #technology7 years ago

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YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees – Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim – in February 2005

1 Videos

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

2 User

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

3 First Video

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

4 Founded

YouTube was founded by 3 former employees of PayPal.

5 Google

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

6 Gangnam Style Recors

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

7 Language

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

8 CEO of Youtube

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 .

9 Second largest Search Engine

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

10 YouTube page Shake

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

11 Most Dislike Video

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

12 Most searched Tutorial

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

13 Production Space

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

If you know any fun facts about Youtube, let us know in the comments!

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12 Most searched Tutorial
The most searched tutorial on YouTube is "How to Kiss."

Love this fact. Fair to say that YouTube can teach you EVERYTHING!
Thanks for sharing - upvoted!

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