YouTube – 30 Amazing Stats and Facts

1. What does YouTube do: YouTube is an online video sharing platform created by three former PayPal employees. YouTube allows viewers to upload, view, and share videos. YouTube also allow viewers to response to the videos by liking and commenting.
2. Founded on: February 14, 2005
3. Founders: Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim
4. Headquarter: San Bruno, California, United States
5. Parent organization: Google / Alphabet
6. Amount Google paid to acquire YouTube: 1.65 million USD in Google stock.
7. Revenue: 1.5 billion USD
8. Total funding raised: 83.5 million USD as of 2006
9. YouTube Localization: YouTube has local versions in 100 countries, in a total of 80 different languages.
10. Other Products: YouTube Go, YouTube Kids, YouTube Music, YouTube Originals, YouTube Premium, YouTube Studio and YouTube TV
11. Content uploaded to YouTube every minute: 500 hours of content
12. Content watched of YouTube every day: 1 billion hours content
13. How many people use YouTube: 2 billion users logged-in monthly
14. How many YouTube videos are captioned: 1 billion videos
15. Majority of age group watching YouTube: 18-34 years
16. Watch time: More than 70% of YouTube watch time comes from mobile devices.
17. First YouTube video: “Me at the zoo” is the first YouTube video uploaded by Jawed Karim on April 23, 2005
18. First video to 1 million views: Nike advertisement featured by Ronaldinho in November 2005
19. Most viewed YouTube video in 2020: Pinkfong – “Baby Shark Dance”
20. Most viewed video in 24 hours: BTS “Dynamite” has 101.1 million views within 24 hours
21. Most subscribed YouTube channel: Indian music video channel T-Series 171 million subscribers as of February 2021
22. No.1 YouTuber: Felix Kjellberg, known as PewDiePie, a Swedish YouTuber and comedian.
23. YouTube web traffic: YouTube is ranked as the second most viewed website with 20.4 billion visit each month.
24. Youtube.com vs utube.com: in November 2006, Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment filed lawsuit against YouTube for having similar website name. It leads to millions of hits to their website utube.com and crashed it. Later they named their website as utubeonline.com.
25. YouTube creator awards: YouTube Play Buttons or YouTube Plaques is the award from YouTube to recognize popular YouTube channel based on its subscribers. There are 3 tiers of award, Silver Creator Award (100,000 subscribers), Gold Creator Award (1M subscribers), Diamond Creator Award (10M subscribers) and there is other two additional awards – Custom Creator Award (50M subscribers) and Red Diamond Creator Award (100M subscribers)
26. YouTube channel that has Red Diamond Creator Award: T-Series, PewDiePie, Cocomelon
27. Similar products: Netflix, Amazon prime, Hotstar, Disney+, Vimeo
28. YouTube acquisition: YouTube has 4 acquisition and Subarctic Limited was their latest acquisition May 1, 2016.
29. YouTube investors: Sequoia Capital and Artis Ventures (AV)
30. YouTube advertising formats: Display ads, Overlay ads, Skippable video ads, Non-skippable video ads, Bumper ads, Sponsored cards

+ One interesting news:

YouTube brings on CVS Health exec to launch healthcare content on its platform.

All facts are updated on February 2021