YouTube was launched in February 2005, and Google purchased it in October 2006. Since then, YouTube has grown to become one of the most popular video-sharing websites, with the most user-generated material.
We are introducing a fact section to our blog JustSolvedNow today. and in the first article, we are providing some interesting YouTube facts. learn more in the next facts articles. Enjoy.
What was the initial goal of YouTube?
YouTube was founded as a platform for anybody to submit any visual content they wanted. It was planned that users will be able to freely publish, exchange, and watch content on the website. It has subsequently developed to become one of the world's leading video distribution websites. Many content creators nowadays make a good career by selling ad space before or on videos that they create and post to the site. A few people can make a living as YouTubers thanks to programmes like YouTube's Partner Network and Google AdSense. On Valentine's Day in 2005, YouTube was created. It was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, all of whom had previously worked with PayPal. Like many others in Silicon Valley, the platform began as an angel-funded venture with improvised offices in a garage.
Intresting Facts about Youtube
☞ YouTube attracts more people in the United States via mobile than any other TV network.
☞ Year on year, the number of channels making six figures has increased by more over 45%.
☞ Year on year, the number of channels making five figures has increased by more than 50%.
☞ Channels with over a million users have increased by 76% year on year.
☞ Over the last five years, YouTube video providers have claimed more than $2 billion using Content ID on the service.
☞ Content ID has been utilised by over 9000 partners, including famous network broadcasters, movie studios, and music labels, to monetize their claims of over 800 million videos.
☞ The PrimeTime Emmy-winning Content-ID database has over 75 million active reference files.
☞ Counting YouTube's Premium and Music services, there are more than 30 million paying customers.
☞ Every month, almost 2 billion people check in to YouTube.
☞ Users watch almost a billion hours of video every day, creating billions of views.
☞ When this billion hours of video are added together, they equal 100,000 years of video footage.
☞ More than 70% of YouTube traffic comes from mobile devices.
☞ YouTube's local version is available in over 91 countries across the world.
☞ Google's Youtube online streaming service is available in 80 different languages, covering approx. 96% of internet users today.
☞Psy's Gangnam Style was the first viral success of its sort on YouTube, nearly breaking the limit of 2,147,483,647 views. The song has 3.3 billion views as of now, and the new limit counter is 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 views.
☞T-Series An indian Youtube music chennel has 97.4 million followers and is the most subscribed channel on YouTube.
Let's us Introduce the founders of YouTube?
Chad Hurley studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania before joining Ebay's PayPal subsidiary in 1999. He was largely responsible for the user experience (UX) of Paypal's interface.Steven Shih Chen was born in Taiwan in 1978. At the age of eight years old, his family immigrated to the United States. Steve dropped out of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy before graduating. He eventually attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he earned a degree in computer science in 2002. He would eventually work for PayPal.
Jawed Karim was birthed in Merseburg, East Germany, in 1979. His father is from Bangladesh, while his mother is from Germany. In 1992, his father relocated the family to Saint Paul, Minnesota, after facing xenophobia in Germany. Jawed went on to study computer science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, but dropped out before finishing.
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