Amazing Facts about YouTube in English – 12 interesting facts about YouTube

Youtube, the thing that will eat TV just like TV ate radio. The only difference is that on TV we watch what is shown to us but on YouTube we watch what we want to watch. You should also see this post of ours because we are going to give you some interesting information about YouTube which hardly anyone has given you.

Who invented Youtube? – Who Invented Youtube in English

1. Youtube was started on 14 February 2005 i.e. Valentine’s Day. It was created by Steve Chan, Chad Hurley and Javed Karim. These three friends used to work together in Paypal. YouTube started as a dating website but today has become the world’s largest online video site.

2. Google bought YouTube for $1 billion 65 million on October 9, 2006, just 18 months after its creation. This was the biggest online deal till that time.

3. The first video on YouTube was uploaded on April 23, 2005 at 8:27 pm from a channel named ‘jawed’. This was the channel of YouTube co-founder ‘Javed Karim’. The title of this 19-second video was ‘Me At the Zoo’ which was shot by his friend Yakov in San Diego Zoo, in which Javed is standing in front of elephants.

4. There is a place called YouTube Space in 10 cities of the world including Mumbai, India, where people with more than 10,000 subscribers can go and make their videos. There are facilities ranging from green screen to sound stages and many types of sets.

5. The woman who rented a garage to Larry Page and Sergey Brin to create Google in 1998 later became the CEO of YouTube. The name of this woman was ‘Susan Wojcicki’.

Amazing Facts about YouTube in English 

6. ‘Gangnam Style’ was the first video that failed YouTube’s view counting system. What actually happened was that YouTube had designed its system for 32-bit in which only 2,147,483,647 views could be counted because the YouTube people did not think that any video would ever reach here. However, now it has been increased to 64-bit in which 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 views can be counted.

7. There are 3 countries in the world where YouTube is banned: China, Iran and North Korea.

8. Youtube is available in a total of 88 countries in the world with 76 languages.

9. The oldest video uploaded on YouTube is from 1888. This 2.11 second video was shot by Frenchman Louis Le Prince in ‘Roundhay’, England, hence this video is known as “Roundhay Garden Scene”. This is also considered to be the oldest video in history.

10. The most viewed video on YouTube is: “Despacito”. This is a song which had been viewed 5 billion 46 crore times at the time of writing this post.

 12 interesting facts about YouTube

11. The biggest channel on Youtube is: “PewDiePie”. On which there were 6 crore 56 lakh subscribers till the time the post was written. After this comes India’s largest channel T-Series.

12. The longest video on YouTube is 596 hours 31 minutes 21 seconds. The title of this video is: The Longest Video On Youtube. Even if you watch it continuously day and night, it will take 25 days.

Some statistics of Youtube – Youtube Statistics in English 

• 1.5 billion people use YouTube.
• Every minute 400 hours of video is being uploaded on YouTube.
• About 5 billion videos are being watched every day.
• 1 billion hours of videos are being watched every day.
• About 50 lakh channels are continuously uploading videos on YouTube.
• YouTube is also the world’s largest search engine after Google.