25 FASCINATING Facts About YouTube You Should Know

YouTube much like Facebook and other social media sites has become such a large part of our lives that many of us don't even notice how much time we spend there others out there are happily TV free and get most of the media news from the internet via YouTube like the Internet itself if there's something weird you're into or something you want to learn you can find it on YouTube I'm Mike with list twenty five and as one of the largest sites on the internet connecting humans with other humans let's all learn and appreciate 25 fascinating facts about YouTube you should know 25 it was created in 2005 by three of the guys who helped start a PayPal Steven Chen Joe ed cream and Chad Hurley knew each other from working at PayPal and YouTube was founded from bonuses from eBay buying out PayPal know PayPal bonuses no YouTube 24 the first video ever uploaded to YouTube was one of the founders Jarrod Grimm talking about elephants in a zoo for 18 seconds 23 one of the highest paid youtubers DC toys collector has a very odd and bizarrely soothing channel remember the joy of opening a new toy when you were a child DC toys collector makes videos of just that and is so popular that they have over nine million subscribers in 2014 it's estimated that they made over 4 million dollars just by recording themselves opening toys and describing them 22 in 2015 according to YouTube Americans had watched over 600 million hours of beauty videos YouTube and beauty gurus have not only taught countless women and men how to up their makeup game they've become a cultural phenomenon in their own right 21 there are several ways people make money on YouTube putting ads in front of videos having video sponsored or having a patreon account where people can support you and your content either monthly or every time you put out a video patreon allows people to support artists and content creators directly instead of supporting their sponsors 20 people are very curious about how much people make on YouTube while I've heard about this or that youtubers who's made millions the specific number has very much to do with this specific contract sign with Adsense how youtubers get paid from ads and several other factors so no one knows for sure however there is a website called social blade that can give you estimate if you're really curious 19 over 80% of YouTube's views are not from the United States however YouTube is pretty quiet about which countries do account for most of the reviews 18 YouTube has actually created very fancy production spaces called YouTube spaces in New York LA tomorrow and London where creators can find resources to actually use the facility in LA to record and produce you need a minimum of 10,000 subscribers no copyright strikes against your channel be over 18 and it cannot be a video for a specific consumer brand unless they're a YouTube brand partner 17 each month on YouTube over 4 billion hours of video that's almost half a million years worth are viewed that's every 30 days which sounds crazy until you remember that over a decade's worth of content is uploaded to YouTube daily 16 the most disliked video in YouTube's history is Justin Bieber's baby which at the time of this recording is sitting at 7 million six hundred nine thousand five hundred eighty nine dislikes to only 6 million three hundred and thirty six thousand and seventy eight likes the irony the Biebs was discovered on YouTube like baby baby baby no song sure is great I like to remix with the or the mashup between him and Slipknot that's really fun alone 15 if you were ever stuck with a YouTube video buffering you used to be able to press any arrow key and play the game snake much like you can play a dinosaur game on Google's homepage when the Internet's down to needed to wait for a little magic box to load a video from across the world there was a game to distract you while you were waiting to be tracted really wonder why they took that away it was awesome I liked it I liked snake on the little Nokia's yeah 14 you could navigate comment or view YouTube's website in over 75 languages which means YouTube is accessible linguistically at least to 95% of the world's population I'm in that 95% mean 13 it would take between 60,000 and 95,000 years to watch every video on YouTube depending on how you calculate that keep in mind that number is constantly growing and there are hundreds of live streams at any given time that's a lot of cats contouring and Let's Plays I would totally watch a contouring cat let's play 12 in 2014 grumpy cat earned more money via YouTube then when a paltrow did that year being Gweneth Paltrow 11 perhaps the most well-known Internet practical joke is the rick roll which involves giving someone a link to something else that turns out to be the Rick Astley song never going to give you up it started in 2007 and that year Ashley himself even rickrolled the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Rick rolling still happens a decade later I actually genuinely enjoyed that song I like it hey Tristan I'm never going to get 10 mobile users account for over half of YouTube views that dude in his 20s on the bus watching a video with headphones this is as normal or more normal than watching cable TV for many Americans in his age range now 9 though the reasons vary from scandal and sexual content to politics let's be honest it's usually politics 10 countries have banned YouTube at one point or another Brazil Turkey Germany Libya Thailand Turkmenistan China North Korea Iran and Pakistan before Americans get all high and mighty though know that many countries including the US have asked for political videos to be removed or at some point eight the cats on the internet jokes are really jokes considering that in 2013 45% of Americans who uploaded a video to YouTube uploaded one of their pet before you get judgmental about that consider that people watch videos of other people's cats so there's a fair market demand 7 after Google YouTube is the second most used search engine on the Internet sorry Bing I still have you if you want to learn about something videos are one of the best ways to learn things suck you suck 6 the first YouTube office was located above a pizza joint in San Mateo California 5 a YouTube channel can have 3 copyright strikes before the account is suspended and all videos deleted however there's some controversy over this as companies such as Viacom have sued YouTube claiming they aren't doing enough to stop copyright infringement on the other hand content creators often claim their seed strikes before YouTube does any sort of investigation and for things that are covered under fair use such as short clips for cable is losing to YouTube at least in the 18 to 49 year old age demographic as they reach more people in this age range than any cable channel in the United States 3 over 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute worldwide to most people know that the music video for Psy's Gangnam style has the most YouTube views ever as of this recording it's sitting at 2 billion eight hundred twenty five million two hundred forty three thousand nine hundred eighty views what most people don't know is that YouTube has a hard play count limit which had to quickly be raised in order for Gangnam style to not reach its limit of plays it's now set at 9 quintillion 223 quadrillion 372 trillion 36 billion 854 million 776 one Facebook still wins at least domestically despite the fact that Facebook performs social experiments on its users over two-thirds of Americans are on Facebook while over just 63 percent on YouTube enjoying our lists be sure to click that subscribe button in the bottom right we only sound out new ones every Monday to Friday share them with your friends and help us consistently conciliate curiosity and if you want even more list check out these three videos here or just head to our website at least 25 calm [Music]

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Published: Mon Jun 12 2017