50 facts about youtube

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1. YouTube was created in February 2005.
2. YouTube was originally created by three former PayPal employees.
3. The company was created after one of its founders became frustrated with trying to share video footage of a dinner party. He was unable to do so over email because of attachment size limits.
4. In November 2006, Google purchased YouTube for $1.65 Billion.
5. YouTube’s first headquarters were above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, CA.
6. The first YouTube video was titled “Me at the zoo” and shows founder co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo.
7. “Me at the zoo” was uploaded at 8:27 PM on Saturday, April 23, 2005.
8. The 19 second video has been viewed over 30 million times.
9. The first video to reach 1 million views was a Nike Ad featuring Ronaldinho in September 2005.
10. By July 2006, YouTube announced over 65,000 videos uploaded every day.
11. At the same time, the site was receiving 100 million video views per day.
12. By 2014, YouTube announced that 300 hours of new video were uploaded every minute.
13. In 2007, YouTube used as much bandwidth as the entire internet used in 2000.
14. YouTube is the 3rd most visited website in the world.
15. The site currently has about 15 billion visitors per month.
16. The most viewed YouTube video is “Gangam Style” by Psy with over 2.5 billion views.
17. In 2007, YouTube began including ads before videos.
18. Many people now make their living through their YouTube channel, through ad sales and sponsored videos.
19. Members of the “YouTube Partners Program” may include ads before their videos, for which they keep, on average, 55% of the revenue. YouTube keeps the remaining 45%.
20. Pre-roll advertisements (ones that play before the video begins) cost advertisers $7.60 per 1000 views, on average.
21. Assuming pre-roll ads appear before half of a video creator’s videos, a video creator would earn, on average, $2.03 per 1000 views.
22. YouTube’s top earner is Felix Arvid Ulf Kjelberg AKA PewDiePie.
23. PewDiePie earns an estimated $12 million per year from his YouTube channel.
24. PewDiePie’s channel originally contained videos of him playing and reviewing video games, but quickly branched out to include other content.
25. With 40 million subscribers, PewDiePie’s has the most subscribers of any channel on YouTube.
26. On July 19 2014, PewDiePie’s channel surpassed Rihanna’s Vevo account to become the channel with the most total views of all time.
27. YouTube is the second largest search engine after Google.
28. YouTube viewers are even split female and male, but men spend 44% more time on their sites.
29. Most viewers fall in the 25-34 age range.
30. In 2007, British Prime Minister Tony Blair became the first world leader with a YouTube channel.
31. Over 5 billion hours of video are viewed on YouTube every day.
32. 5 billion hours translates to over 300 hours of video watched every day.
33. 70% of videos are viewed on mobile devices.
34. Full HD was released on YouTube in November 2009.
35. In 2012, a YouTube video called “The Innocence of Muslims” caused international anti-American demonstrations.
36. 10 Countries have blocked YouTube at some point: Brazil, Turkey, Germany, Libya, Thailand, Turkmenistan, China, North Korea, Iran and Pakistan.
37. In 2007, Brazilian model Daniella Cicarelli sued YouTube over removal of a video of her and her boyfriend, leading to a short ban of YouTube in Brazil.
38. Turkey has banned YouTube several times over “videos that insulted Turkishness.” The current Turkish government is threatening another YouTube ban.
39. In Germany, all YouTube clips containing copyrighted music are banned, even if the music is playing in the background.
40. A 2013 study found 60% of the 1000 most viewed YouTube videos are banned in Germany.
41. YouTube was banned in Libya in 2010 for showing anti-government protests and the Gaddafi family at lavish parties. It was restored in 2011 following the Libyan Revolution.
42. YouTube was blocked in Thailand for 5 months in 2007 over a 44 second video showing defaced pictures of the king.
43. YouTube was blocked in Turkmenistan in 2009. No official reason was given. To use the internet in Turkmenistan, citizens must present a passport at state-run internet cafes.
44. YouTube has been blocked in China since 2009. There are very strict rules for posting videos on Chinese sites.
45. In North Korea, only a few communist party elites can access the actual internet, making YouTube inaccessible for the vast majority of the population.
46. Iran blocked YouTube in 2009 following protests over the presidential election. In 2012, a state-run alternative called Mehr was launched.
47. Pakistan blocked YouTube in 2012 following controversy over the “Innocence of Muslims” clip.
48. Several other countries have partially blocked YouTube or blocked access to certain videos, in particular, “The Innocence of Muslims” clip.
49. YouTube reaches more adults age 18-34 than any cable network.
50. 80% of YouTube traffic comes from outside the US.