Youtube founders Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim created Youtube because they wanted to share videos from a dinner party with friends and their email programs would not accept big size video files. Youtube enabled million of people with video camera and internet connection to share their stories with the World since it was created.
There are some interesting facts about Youtube though that a few people know. Let me go through some of them.
- All three founders (Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim) of Youtube were working for Paypal when they started Youtube.
- Youtube domain was registered on Valentines Day (February 14, 2005).
- 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. Here is the video
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