10 Interesting Facts About Youtube

Youtube is today's most important video site and some would say search engine. Some of us use it for funny videos, others for listening to music. We don't know whether Youtube is being used for its intended purpose for today's users, but there are different stories that will surprise everyone at the foundations of Youtube.

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YouTube Founded by 3 Former PayPal Employees

The three friends, Jawed Karim, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, were former employees of the Paypal payment system. Later, these three friends took a step that would change the entire history of the internet and founded Youtube on February 15, 2005.

First Video

The first video was uploaded on April 23, 2005, entitled "Me at the zoo", featuring one of the platform's founders, Jawed Karim, at the San Diego Zoo. This iconic video is one of YouTube's most viewed videos.

A "dating" website called Tune in Hook up

Youtube was originally conceived as a dating site. But this idea was not very successful. It later became a platform for uploading videos on any topic.

Acquired by Google

YouTube was bought by Google exactly 18 months after it was founded. Google sold Youtube for exactly 1.65 billion dollars.

Youtube Studio

Did you know that there is a YouTube studio in Los Angeles that creators can use for free? But a YouTuber who wants to use this studio must have at least 10,000 subscribers.

Longest Video

A video on YouTube lasts for 571 hours, 1 minute and 41 seconds. So YouTube's longest video is 23 days and 19 hours long.

Most Popular Video

60 percent of the 1000 most popular YouTube videos are banned in Germany.

Number of Views

People watch 6 billion hours of video a month on YouTube. 4 billion videos are watched every day.

Youtube Reasons for "Utube"

Youtube.com was registered in 2005. It didn't take long for Utube, a pipe company with the same address, to get into trouble because people wanting to access Youtube kept utube.com, and therefore the company, busy. As a result, Utube took the situation to court but failed to win. As a last resort, Utube moved the company website to another address.

Gangnam Style

The most watched music video is still Gangnam Style. At the time of writing this article, the number of views for the video was 4,617,370,831. This shows that the record held by the video is not easy to break.