Because this blog is all about funny or remarkable YouTube stuff, I decided it was time to deliver some information about YouTube itself on my blog. I'll provide you with a short history of YouTube and last but not least some fun facts about it. Enjoy!
A short history of YouTube
YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal. The domain name "YouTube.com" was activated on February 15, 2005, and the website was developed over the subsequent months. The creators offered the public a preview of the site in May 2005, six months before YouTube made its official debut. Like many technology startups, YouTube was started as an angel-funded enterprise from a makeshift office in a garage.
During the summer of 2006, YouTube was one of the fastest growing websites on the Web, and was ranked the 5th most popular website on Alexa, far out pacing even MySpace's rate of growth. According to a July 16, 2006 survey, 100 million video clips are viewed daily on YouTube, with an additional 65,000 new videos uploaded every 24 hours. The website averages nearly 20 million visitors per month, according to Nielsen/NetRatings.
On October 9, 2006, it was announced that the company would be purchased by Google for
US$1.65 billion in stock. YouTube will continue operating independently, with its co-founders and 67 employees working within the company. The deal to acquire YouTube closed on November 13, and was, at the time, Google's second largest acquisition. At the time of reporting, Chad Hurley’s capital was estimated at more than $345 million, Steve Chen’s at more than $326 million and Jawed Karim’s at more than $64 million.
Some fun fact about YouTube
70% of Youtube’s registered users are from USA and half of Youtube users are under 20 years old.
If Youtube was Hollywood, they have enough material to release 60,000 new films every week.
More videos were uploaded on Youtube in last two months than if NBC, ABC, CBS had be airing new content 24/7/365 since 1948 (Since ABC started broadcasting).
The total amount of bandwidth used by Youtube is about the same as used by entire internet in 2000.
One needs over 1000 years of time to watch all videos on Youtube (but there will be billion of more videos uploaded on Youtube by then).
Most popular category for uploaded videos is ‘Music’ having around 20% Youtube videos.
United States users upload most of Youtube videos followed by UK and USA users also watch most Youtube videos followed by Japan.
The first ever video that was uploaded on Youtube is by Jawed Karim (one of Youtube founders) titled “Me at zoo” on April 23rd, 2005 which is 18 seconds long.
Watch Karim's video here :
Sources :
http://www.pakblogger.com/10-interesting-facts-about-youtube
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_YouTube
