29 Interesting Facts About YouTube

Check out interesting facts about the most popular video sharing website YouTube.

1. YouTube owned by Google Inc
2. It is the 3rd most visited website in the world
3. 800 million unique users every month
4. The domain name YouTube.com was registered on Valentine’s Day in 2005.
5. It was created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, all working together at another Internet novelty, PayPal.
6. Google bought it in November 2006 for 1.65 billion dollars
7. 490 millions users worldwide (unique visitors per month)
8. Average user visits the site 14 times per month.
9. Users spend an average of 25 mins on the site each time.
10. 92 billion page views each month.
11. 2.9 billion hours spent on YouTube. That’s 326,294 years!
12. More than 400 tweets per minute containing a YouTube link.
13. More video content is uploaded to YouTube in a 60 day period than the three major U.S. television networks created in 60 years.
14. 10% of YouTube’s videos are available in HD
15. Nearly 17 million people have connected their YouTube account to at least one social service (Facebook, Twitter, Orkut, Buzz, etc
16. Over 12 million people are connected and auto-sharing to at least one social network
17. Average video duration is 2 minutes 46 seconds
18. Facebook has over 150 years of YouTube Videos watch every single day.
19. The way YouTube makes money is through advertising in and around videos
20. Music video by Rebecca Black has received millions of views, “dislikes” and has generated over one million dollars through clicks and advertisements in just under a week.
21. Advertisers spend just $2.2 billion on all online video ads, compared with $60.5 billion on television ads, according to eMarketer
22. Video giant pay out millions of dollars a year to partners
23. They are monetizing over 3 billion video views per week globally
24. YouTube will contribute 5 percent of Google’s total annual revenue in 2011, estimate by Citigroup.
25. YouTube user spends between 15 and 25 minutes a day on the site, on average
26. 70% of YouTube traffic comes from outside the US
27. YouTube is localized in 25 countries across 43 languages
28. YouTube’s users are 18 to 54 years old
29. This is the very first video uploaded: