Did you know that YouTube is so immensely popular among global viewers that the video content uploaded to YouTube every two months or 60 days is more content than the three U.S. major television networks created in 60 years?

Did you know that YouTube was born when the infamous wardrobe malfunction of Janet Jackson (Super Bowl XXXVIII) set the launching point for Jawed Karim because he was not able to find its footage?

YouTube is the mastermind of Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim.

Did you know that Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim were PayPal employees?

Did you know that the three of them used funds received during the EBay buyout of PayPal to create YouTube?

Did you know that YouTube was meant to be a dating website?

Did you know that Google recognized the potential of this video sharing website and offered huge $ 1.65 billion in the very next year of the inception of YouTube and sealed the deal in November 2006?

      
Did you know that The first video to reach 1 million views was a Nike Ad featuring Ronaldinho in September 2005.

 

Did you know that In 2007, YouTube used as much bandwidth as the entire internet used in 2000?

Did you know that YouTube is the 3rd most visited website in the world?

Did you know that YouTube currently has about 15 billion visitors per month?
 
Did you know that in 2007, YouTube began including ads before videos?

Did you know that Many people now make their living through their YouTube channel, through ad sales and sponsored videos?

Did you know that 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%?

Did you know that Pre-roll advertisements (ones that play before the video begins) cost advertisers $7.60 per 1000 views, on average?

Did you know that 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?

Did you know that YouTube’s top earner is Felix Arvid Ulf Kjelberg AKA PewDiePie?

Did you know that PewDiePie earns an estimated $12 million per year from his YouTube channel?

 

Did you know that PewDiePie’s channel originally contained videos of him playing and reviewing video games, but quickly branched out to include other content.
 
Did you know that On July 19 2014, PewDiePie’s channel surpassed Rihanna’s Vevo account to become the channel with the most total views of all time? Did you know that YouTube is the second largest search engine after Google?

Did you know that YouTube viewers are even split female and male, but men spend 44% more time on their sites?

Did you know that Most viewers fall in the 25-34 age range?

Did you know that in 2007, British Prime Minister Tony Blair became the first world leader with a YouTube channel?

Did you know that Over 5 billion hours of video are viewed on YouTube every day?

Did you know that Full HD was released on YouTube in November 2009?

Did you know that In 2012, a YouTube video called “The Innocence of Muslims” caused international anti-American demonstrations?

 

Did you know that 10 Countries have blocked YouTube at some point: Brazil, Turkey, Germany, Libya, Thailand, Turkmenistan, China, North Korea, Iran and Pakistan?

Did you know that 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?

Did you know that Turkey has banned YouTube several times over “videos that insulted Turkishness.” The current Turkish government is threatening another YouTube ban?

Did you know that in Germany, all YouTube clips containing copyrighted music are banned, even if the music is playing in the background?

Did you know that a 2013 study found 60% of the 1000 most viewed YouTube videos are banned in Germany?

Did you know that YouTube was banned in Libya in 2010 for showing anti-government protests and the Gaddafi family at lavish parties but It was restored in 2011 following the Libyan Revolution?

Did you know that YouTube was blocked in Thailand for 5 months in 2007 over a 44 second video showing defaced pictures of the king?

Did you know that YouTube is so immensely popular among global viewers that the video content uploaded to YouTube every two months or 60 days is more content than the three U.S. major television networks created in 60 years? 

Did you know that 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?

Did you know that YouTube has been blocked in China since 2009, there are very strict rules for posting videos on Chinese sites?

Did you know that In North Korea, only a few communist party elites can access the actual internet, making YouTube inaccessible for the vast majority of the population?

Did you know that Iran blocked YouTube in 2009 following protests over the presidential election. In 2012, a state-run alternative called Mehr was launched?

Did you know that Pakistan blocked YouTube in 2012 following controversy over the “Innocence of Muslims” clip?

 

Did you know that Several other countries have partially blocked YouTube or blocked access to certain videos, in particular, “The Innocence of Muslims” clip?

Did you know that YouTube reaches more adults age 18-34 than any cable network?
 

Did you know that if a YouTube uploader receives three copyright strikes, his or her account is suspended and all videos uploaded to the account are removed?

 

Did you know that the average user spends 15 to 25 minutes on YouTube per visit?
 

Did you know that more content is uploaded to YouTube in 60 days than the three major American television networks created in the last 60 years?
 

Did you know that On Facebook, over 150 years of YouTube video are watched every day?
 

Did you know that there are over 400 tweets per minute containing a link to a YouTube video?
 

Did you know that the longest video on YouTube is 571 hours, 1 minutes, and 41 seconds long?
 

Did you know that. The video contains a slide show of uploader Jonathan Harchick’s 2009 trip to Chile?
 

Did you know that the average YouTube user accesses the site 14 times per month?
 

Did you know that The program that scans YouTube videos for copyright infringement is called Automated Content ID?

Did you know that Automated Content ID scans over 100 years of video every day?
 

Did you know that if copyrighted material is discovered, YouTube gives the copyright owner the option of blocking the content or adding ads to the video, The copyright owner then receives revenue from these ads?
 

Did you know that it’s estimated that one third of YouTube’s total revenue is paid to copyright holders?
 

Did you know that the most like video is “See You Again” by Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth with 12.59 million likes?
 

Did you know that the most disliked video is “Baby” by Justin Beiber, which received 2.5 million dislikes?

 

  

Did you know that In 2007, the company began the “YouTube Awards” to recognize great content?
 

Did you know that “YouTube Awards” Winners receive a trophy, which is a large glass play button?
 

Did you know that. In 2010, YouTube added “Promotes Terrorism” to the list of reasons users can give when flagging content as inappropriate?
 

Did you know that. On July 21, 2009 YouTube announced that users could now upload 3D videos? 
 

Did you know that In January 2015, YouTube announced that it would support 360° videos?
 

Did you know that YouTube mobile was launched in June 2007?
 

Did you know that Not all YouTube videos are available on YouTube mobile?
 

Did you know that On November 12, 2014 YouTube launched its first premium service, originally called “Music Key?”

Did you know that On October 28, 2015 the Service was relaunched as “YouTube Red?”

Did you know that For a monthly subscription fee, YouTube Red offers ad-free streaming of all videos and access to exclusive original content?

Did you know that Since 2008, YouTube has a tradition of playing elaborate April Fool’s Day pranks, every April 1st?

Did you know that In 2008, for the company’s first April Fool’s Day prank, all links on the sites homepage led to the music video “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley?

Did you know that In early 2013, Billboard announced that it was calculating YouTube streaming data into considerations for the Billboard Hot 100?

Did you know that In 2008, YouTube was awarded a George Foster Peabody Award, being described

George Foster Peabody Award

as a Speakers’ Corner that “both embodies and promotes democracy?”
 
Did you know that. In December 2012, approximately 2 billion views were removed from the view counts of Universal and Sony videos, prompting speculation that they broke site policy on using automated processes to inflate view counts?

Did you know that The video with the most views within the first 24 hours is the Star Wars: The Force Awakens Official Teaser #2, which reached 112 million views in 24 hours?

Did you know that As of June 2017, only 63 YouTube videos have reached 1 billion views?

Did you know that Of the 63 videos that have reached 1 billion views, 56 are music videos.

Did you know that The video to reach 1 billion views fastest was “Hello” by Adele?

 

Did you know that “Hello” by Adele reached 1 billion views in 88 days?

Did you know that The second quickest video to reach 1 billion views is “Sorry” by Justin Bieber, which reached 1 billion views in 123 days?

Did you know that “Sorry” by Justin Bieber reache 2 billion views in almost 360 days?

Did you know that Justin Bieber has 4 songs with over 1 billion views, as of June 2017 no other artist has more than two?

Did you know that Justin Bieber became famous after being discovered for his YouTube channel, He is now one of the worlds most successful recording artists?

Did you know that Justin Bieber’s Vevo channel also currently holds the record for most subscribers for a musical act?

Did you know that The most subscribed non-English YouTube Channel is currently HolaSoyGerman, a Spanish-language comedy channel belonging to Chilean comedian German Alejandro Garmendia Aranis, It currently holds the number two spot for subscribers, just after PewDiePie?

Did you know that Forbes recently valued YouTube at about $70 billion dollars?

Did you know that means if YouTube were its own company, it would be number 66 on the S&P 500?

Did you know that YouTube crossed 1 Trillion hits in 2011 which means 140 views per person alive on earth?

Did you know that there are over 7,000 hours of full-length movies and shows on YouTube and its continuously growing?

Did you know that YouTube has signed over 10,000 advertising partners to date, including Disney, Turner, Univision and Channel 4 and Channel 5?

Did you know that thousands of partners are making six figures a year, currently, there are over a million members of the YouTube Partner Program?

Did you know that only 30% of YouTube’s traffic comes from USA, and the other countries contribute 70% of the traffic?

Did you know that 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute?

Did you know that it has been found that more videos are uploaded to YouTube in 60 days than the 3 major US networks created in 60 years?

Did you know that YouTube has more HD content than any other online video site?

 

Did you know that it would take over 1,700 years to watch all the video content on YouTube?

Did you know that YouTube global presence, that the site is localized in 56 countries and available in 61 different languages?

 Did you know that Batman is the most popular of all superheroes on YouTube, with more than 3 billion views of 71,000 hours of video.

Did you know that YouTube was initially suppose to be a Dating Site?

Did you know that YouTube.com was registered in 2005 and a domain called utube.com (which belongs to the Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Company based in Perrysburg, Ohio) started to get unexpected traffic because of similar domain name?

Did you know that Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Company sued YouTube, making allegations that its business was damaged by the video site/

Did you know that the claims against YouTube were dismissed later and the manufacturing company moved to another domain (utubeonline.com), leaving the domain utube.com as a video-themed landing page for bad spellers?

Did you know that the first ever video that was uploaded to YouTube was Jawed Karim’s visit to a Zoo in San Diego?

Did you know that it’s not a classic video but rather a casual video featuring Jawed Karim in front of an elephant, the video garnered 4,282,497 views when it went online on 23rd April 2005?


Did you know that YouTube is so popular that more than 1 billion people around the globe use YouTube , which is one-third of people on the Internet?

Did you know that YouTubers watch 6 billion hours of videos every month?

Did you know that YouTubers watch 4 billion videos every single day?

Did you know that YouTubers upload 300 hours of video every minute?

Did you know that The most viewed, liked and favorite video of all time if we don’t include any music videos is the very famous, fun classic video “Charlie bit my finger” — with an astounding 846 million views? 

Did you know that but the majority of the most viewed videos are from a music genre. Before June 28, 2015 only two videos, “Gangnam Style” and “Baby” has crossed the 1 billion mark?

Did you know that there has been 47 videos has exceeded the 1 billion mark on YouTube?

Here is a list of the top 25 watched videos on YouTube. Comment on which one you like the most.

1. Gangnam Style by Korean rapper PSY (2.7 billion views)
2. See You Again by Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth (2.4 billion views)
3. Sorry By Justin Bieber (2.2 billion views)
4. Uptown Funk by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars (2.1 billion views)
5. Blank Space by Taylor Swift (1.9 billion views)
6. Mawa Kawa by Get Movies (1.9 billion views)
7. Shake It Off by Taylor Swift (1.8 billion views)
8. Bailando by Enrique featuring Descemer Bueno and Gente De Zona (1.8 billion views)
9. Lean On by Major Lazer and DJ Snake featuring MO (1.8 billion views)
10. Roar by Katy Perry (1.7 billion views)
11. Wheels on the Bus by Little Baby Bum (1.7 billion views)
12. Sugar by Maroon 5 (1.7 billion views)
13. All About that Bass by Meghan Trainor (1.7 billion views)
14. Dark Horse by Katy Perry featuring Juicy J (1.6 billion views)
15. Counting Stars by One Republic (1.6 billion views)
16. Baby byJustin Bieber featuring Ludacris (1.5 billion views)
17. Chandelier by Sia (1.5 billion views)
18. What Do You Mean by Justin Bieber (1.4 billion views)
19. Thinking Out Loud by Ed Sheeran (1.4 billion views)
20. Love Me Like You Do by Ellie Goulding (1.3 billion views)
21. Work from Home by Fifth Harmony featuring Ty Dolla Sign (1.3 billion views)
22. Let Her Go by Passenger (1.3 billion views)
23. Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) by Shakira (1.2 billion views)
24. Worth It by Fifth Harmony featuring Freshly Ground (1.2 billion views)
25. Love The Way You Lie by Eminem featuring Kid Ink (1.2 billion views)

Do you know that you can watch YouTube Charts at any time to view constantly updated information?

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