YouTube is the top video sharing site in the world. Its journey began on 2005 and now it's the third most visited site in the world. Billion of people watched Billions hour of video on YouTube every month and generate over Trillions of video views every year. Here we presents some cool interesting awesome facts about video giant YouTube.
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YouTube get around 10 billion video views in a single day and around 120,000 video views in every seconds(2016).
Trillions in a Year
YouTube generate over 3.5 trillions of video views on their platform in a year.
Billion Users
YouTube has over billion users almost 1/3 of all people on the Internet and around 15% of world population on their platform
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8,219,178 Years in a Year
People around the world watched over 6 billion hours of YouTube videos each month and around 72 billion hours of video in a single year(2014).
30% Videos are Responsible for All
In 2011, YouTube's software engineer James Zern said that, Only 30% videos are responsible for almost 99% views on their platform.
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According to YouTube, more than 50% video views or their traffic are coming through mobile devices.
Each User Spends Average 40 Minute in a Day
According to YouTube, Their each mobile user spends more than 40 minute on their platform in a day and over 4.5 hours each week on YouTube's mobile version It increasing 50% each year.
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US Contribute Only 20%
According to YouTube, Their 80% of all video views came from outside of the US. Only 20% of all video views are came from inside of the US.
YouTube Holds 20% of US Video Advertising Market
In 2015, the whole US video advertising market was over $15 billion and YouTube alone grab about 20% of them. Every year this amount are growing. In 2016, it will be over $20 billion in US alone.
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YouTube has more than 70 local versions of their platform in more than 70 countries and has 76 different languages for their users.
YouTube Produce More Video Than Top 3 US Broadcasting Network Combined
Each month YouTube produce more videos than the top 3 US broadcasting network need 60 years to create.
Has More HD Video Than Other
YouTube has more High Definition(HD) video on their platform than any other video sharing sites in the world. Nowadays YouTube has 4K, 2K, 360° videos on their platform.
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"Music" is The Most Watched Category
In YouTube "Music" is the most watched video categories. For this reason, every most popular individuals or sound records company has an account on YouTube. Most of people love YouTube for watching new or old music video and it is a huge market to promote their tracks.
39% Video Views are Music Views
According to Forbes, In 2014 there are 39% of all watched video on YouTube basically are music videos.
"Music" is The Most Subscribed YouTube's Official Channel
"Music" is the most subscribed channel with over 93 million subscribe on YouTube that handled by YouTube.
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According to YouTube, In 2014 they get estimated 300 hours of video uploaded on their platform in every single minute. Around 50 Years of video uploaded in a single day by their users.
Up To 20 GB or 12 Hours Limitation
A single user can upload 12 hours in length or up to 20 Gigabytes in size video on YouTube. You need to verify your channel first with mobile number or other forms of verification.
3D Video
The First 3D video post on YouTube on 21 July, 2009.
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The Average Length of a Video
The average length of a video on YouTube or the entire world wide web is 4.4 Minute, according to ComScore.
500 Petabytes of Data
In 2015, There are estimated 500 petabytes of data stored in YouTube's server around the world. Estimated 500,000,000 Gigabytes of Data or 500,000,000,000 Megabytes of Data. This is huge!
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There is an estimated 350 companies of all the Fortune 500 companies has at least a YouTube account.
9% of Small Business of USA use YouTube
There are 9% of small business owner in the US use YouTube to promote their products or services.
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Germany Blocks 62% Videos
There are estimated 62% of all YouTube video blocked in Germany. But, they also one of the highest YouTube video viewer country in the world.
Saudi Arabia is The Lowest
Saudi Arabia is the lowest YouTube video viewer country in the world with 90 million video views per day.
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YouTube videos get around 323 days of worth views on Facebook in a minute(2014).
700 Twitter Post Contain a YouTube Link in a Minute
There are more than 700 Twitter's tweets are posted every minute are contain a YouTube video link.
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Ice Bucket Challenge
Ice Bucket Challenge videos are got over 1 billion views on YouTube and now it is the biggest video memes in the history of the Internet. Most famous ice bucket challenge is taken by Bill Gates. With this ALS Foundation, were able to gather over $100 million as a donation from people around the world.
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"Gangnam Style" is the most viewed YouTube video in the world with over 2.5 billion views in till March 2016.
YouTube's First 1 Trillion Views
In 2011, YouTube cross 1 trillion views first time.
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2.4 Billion Hours of Gaming Video Watched
In 2015, People spends around 2.4 billion hours to watch gaming video on YouTube.
300 Million Hours of "How To" Video Watched in a Year
Each year people spends over 300 million hours to watch "How To" related video on YouTube(2014).
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A survey found that, there are more than 50% teenagers around the world love YouTube and consider YouTube as their favorite website.
2 Million Cats in 2014
There are estimated 2 million cats video are published on YouTube in 2014 alone.
Wal-Mart is The Top Retail Advertiser
Walmart is the number 1 retail brands on YouTube who spends about $4 million on advertising alone in 2015.
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Fastest Video Reached 1 Billion Views
Adele’s “Hello” is the official fastest video on YouTube that reached 1 billion views in 87 days in 2015. The previous fastest video was PSY's “Gangnam Style” that crossed 1 billion views in 158 days in 2012.
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"Me at the zoo" is the first video on YouTube published by Jawed Karim co-founder of YouTube uploaded in 23 April 2005 at San Diego Zoo.
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First Video of YouTube Reached 1 Million Views
"Ronaldinho's crossbar challenge" is the first YouTube video that crossed 1 million views. It was a commercial video of Nike in September 2005. In 2015, Nike released a remastered version titled "Nike Football Presents: Ronaldinho Crossbar Remastered" to celebrate its 10th anniversary.
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"PewDiePie" is the most subscribed channels on YouTube and owned by Swedish Comedian Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg. He start his YouTube journey as a Video Gaming channel in 2010. "PewDiePie" generated over 11 Billion views and over 42 million subscriber till March 2016.
"PewDiePie" get Subscribed Every Second
In 2014 "PewDiePie" get Subscribed almost Every Second.
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YouTube Pay Billions
YouTube has over a million creators in their "Partner Program" from 60 countries around the world and YouTube paid these partners over billions of dollar each year. Thousand of those partners are already generated six figure income through their YouTube channel.
"PewDiePie" Income in Millions
According to The Wall Street Journal, In 2013 alone "PewDiePie" earned over $4 Million. In 2016 "PewDiePie" earns estimated $1 million or more in a single month and estimated $12 million in a year.
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Google pay $1.65 billion dollar in Google stock to buy YouTube from his 3 founders in 2006.
YouTube Founded by 3 People
Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim are three founders of YouTube in 2005. Later Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion dollar in October 2006.
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YouTube Influenced by a Dating Site
Chad Hurley and Steve Chen co-founders of YouTube told that, they get inspired by an dating site called "Hot or Not" and their idea was to create an online video version dating site.
Couldn't Find Videos on Internet
2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and 2004 Super Bowl Janet Jackson performance incident video clips make inspired to create YouTube. The idea to create YouTube came first when Jawed Karim(co-founder of YouTube) couldn't find those videos online.
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Since Google buy YouTube they struggled to make profits from world's top video sharing site. According to WSJ, YouTube hasn't become a profitable business yet for Google. Because Video advertising yet not much popular than banner and text advertisement.
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$100 Craigslist Ad
In 2006, a $100 craigslist ads posted by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim for two hot girls to post at least 10 hot video post on YouTube.
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