YouTube Facts That May Surprise You

YouTube Facts That May Surprise You 

YouTube is huge. Humongous, even. More video content is uploaded to YouTube in a 60 day period than the three major U.S. television networks created in 60 years.

The average YouTube user spends between 15 and 25 minutes a day on the site, but how much do we know about the world's largest video sharing website? Do you know what the most watched YouTube clip is? Can you name all three founders? Do you know how many times per minute a YouTube link is tweeted?

There is a ton of interesting data, info and stats to be learned about YouTube 

PayPal's Role in YouTube's Creation

YouTube was created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim in 2005. The three founders knew each other from working together at another Internet start up, PayPal. In fact, Hurley designed the PayPal logo after reading a Wired article about the online payment company and e-mailing the startup in search of a job. YouTube was initially funded by bonuses received following the eBay buy-out of PayPal. You could argue that if there was no PayPal, there would be no YouTube.

YouTube's Origins as a Dating Site

The founding trio didn't come up with the YouTube concept straight away. Legend has it that YouTube began life as a video dating site dubbed "Tune In Hook Up," said to be influenced by HotorNot. The three ultimately decided not to go that route. The inspiration for YouTube as we know it today is credited to two different events. The first was Karim's inability to find footage online of Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction," and the second when Hurley and Chen were unable to share video footage of a dinner party due to e-mail attachment limitations.

YouTube Caused Problems For Utube

The domain name YouTube.com was registered on Valentine's Day in 2005. This, however, caused a huge misunderstanding for Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment based in Perrysburg, Ohio. Its company domain, "utube.com," was overwhelmed with traffic from people that tried to spell the video site's name phonetically. The manufacturing company sued YouTube claiming its business was damaged by the video site, but the claims were dismissed. Nowadays, it seems Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment has bowed to the inevitable — its business site has been moved to utubeonline.com and the original utube.com is a video-themed landing page for bad spellers.

The First Ever YouTube Video

The first video on YouTube, uploaded at 8:27 P.M. on Saturday April 23rd, 2005. The video was shot by Yakov Lapitsky at the San Diego Zoo.

Most Viewed Videos

Most viewed video on YouTube ever South Korean singer, PSY Wi-famous with his song "Gangam Style" reached number View Video, to the extent of this writing, 1.8 billion views, any more than a quarter of the world's population.

April Fool from YouTube.

In April of each year creates YouTube lie strange, most recently to broadcast a video clip in which he said that the site will close its services permanently midnight tonight for a period of 10 years to come in order to choose the video is better since the opening of the site before 8 years, said Chairman of the Board of Directors YouTube "Salar Kalmnjar "It's time to be the best choice for a video posted on the site over the past years!

 Some Jaw-Dropping YouTube Statistics

As of February 2011, YouTube has 490 million unique users worldwide per month, who rack up an estimated 92 billion page views each month. We spend around 2.9 billion hours on YouTube in a month — over 325,000 years. And those stats are just for the main YouTube website — they don't incorporate embedded videos or video watched on mobile devices.

• More than a billion user (unrefined) visit YouTube every month!
• Show is more than six billion hours of video every month on YouTube, which is equal to 684 thousand years of viewing per month, any hour, almost every person on the face of the earth.
• Is loaded 100 hours of video to YouTube every minute
• 80% of visits to YouTube comes from outside the U.S.

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