Wednesday 22 August 2012

youTube Facts

1.YouTube was founded in the year, 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Javed Karim, created in order for the friends to share video clips of a dinner party, which were too large to Email.

2.Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Javed Karim were worked at Paypal at that time.

3.The YouTube's Birthday comes on Valentines Day i.e., 14th February.

4.Javed Karim posted the very first YouTube video on 23rd April 2005, title of the video is "Me At Zoo". It has been viewed by 3.24 million times.

5.Every week, YouTubers produces enough material for the 60,000 full length film.

6.Google paid $1.65 billion for YouTube in November 2006

7.Google serves over 6 times more videos than its next closest competitor according to Nielsen

8.Google’s auto speech recognition technology translates 51 languages including captions

9.The longest Video ever on YouTube is 48 hours (2 days!)

10.The ‘how to’ video category is the fastest growing vertical on YouTube

11.YouTube has 490 million users worldwide (unique visitors per month)

12.It generates an estimated 92 billion page views each month.

13.The average YouTube user visits the site 14 times per month

14.The average user spends an average of 25 minutes on the site each time they visit.

15.The average user spends 5 hours and 50 minutes per month (not as much as Facebook)

16.Together, we spend 2.9 billion hours on YouTube in a month. That’s 326,294 years.

17.More than 13 million hours of video were uploaded during 2010 and 35 hours of video are uploaded every minute.

18.The amount of video uploaded in 2010 is the equivalent of 150,000+ full-length movies in theaters each week

19.More video is uploaded to YouTube in 60 days than the 3 major US networks created in 60 years

20.70% of YouTube traffic comes from outside the US

21.YouTube is localized in 25 countries across 43 languages

22.YouTube’s demographic is broad: 18-54 years old

23.YouTube reached over 700 billion playbacks in 2010

24.They have signed over 10,000 advertising partners to date, including Disney, Turner, Univision and Channel 4 and Channel 5

25.Hundreds of partners are making six figures a year

26.There are over 7,000 hours of full-length movies and shows on YouTube

27.YouTube is monetizing over 2 billion video views per week globally

28.94 of AdAge’s Top 100 advertisers have run campaigns on YouTube and the Google Display Network

29.The number of advertisers using display ads on YouTube increased by 1,000% in the last year

30.YouTube has more HD content than any other online video site

31.10% of YouTube’s videos are available in HD

32.Automated Content ID (which detects duplicate content to prevent copyright infringements) scans over 100 years of video every day

33.More than 1000 partners are using Content ID, including every major US network broadcaster, movie studio and record label

34.Over a third of YouTube’s total monetized views come from Content ID

35.Over 4 million people are connected and auto-sharing to at least one social network

36.An AutoShared Tweet results in 6 new youtube.com sessions

37.Over 5 million people have found and subscribed to at least one friend on YouTube using friend-finding tools

38.Millions of subscriptions happen each day. Subscriptions allow you to connect with someone you’re interested in—whether it’s a friend, or the NBA—and keep up on their activity on the site.

39.Users like Machinima, MysteryGuitarMan, Fred, collegehumor, and UniversalMusicGroup have millions of subscribers

40.More than 50% of videos on YouTube have been rated or include comments from the community

41.Millions of videos are favorited every day

42.YouTube mobile gets over 100 million views a day

43.The YouTube player is embedded across tens of millions of websites

44.YouTube says that on average there are more than 400 tweets per minute containing a YouTube link

45.In 2009 the US Congress and President YouTube channels were launched

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