20 YouTube facts
1. YouTube is a video hosting service, which was founded in 14 February 2005.
2. Three employees of PayPal founded the YouTube site.
3. Google purchased YouTube at Nov 2006 for 1.65 billion dollars.
4. 'Me at the zoo' was the the first video that was uploaded on YouTube by one of the site's co-founder.
5. YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine in the world after Google.
6. The original idea for YouTube was a video version of an online service for dating, and had been influenced by the website 'Hot or Not'.
7. 'PSY-Gangnam style' was the first video that breaks the view counter on YouTube.
8. YouTube is available in 75 languages till now.
9. In September 1998, the same month that Google was incorporated, its founders set up office in a woman's garage. Now she is the CEO of YouTube.
10. The choice of the name 'www.youtube.com' led to problems for a similarly named website, 'www.utube.com'.
11. Justin Bieber's 'Baby' was the highest disliked video in the YouTube history.
12. Nearly 1 Billion people accessing YouTube by using mobile phone per day.
13. 60% of most popular 1000 videos on YouTube was blocked in Germany.
14. 'How to Kiss' was the highest searched tutorial on YouTube.
15. 20% of viewers closed the video within 10 seconds if they don't like those videos.
16. 80% of YouTube users were outside the United States.
17. Apart from music and dance videos, 'Charlie bit my finger' was the highest viewed video on YouTube and the view count is 86 Billion.
18. Check out what will happen if you search 'do the Harlem Shake' on youtube (only for desktop)?
19. More than 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube per minute.
20. YouTube does not let anyone download videos, but interestingly people are looking at ways to download them.
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