Interesting Facts of Youtube

1) youTube Was the Idea of Former PayPal Employees.

2) Chad Hurley, Steve Chan and Jawed Karim started YouTube.These three founders worked together at the Internet start-up, PayPal.

3) YouTube was Started as a Dating Site.

4) YouTube was initially started as a video dating site named “Tune In Hook Up” which was inspired by the popular Hot or Not.finally they dropped down this idea.

5) The most searched topic on YouTube is about Music.

6) Most people love to search topic about composers, Musicians and their favorite album. This is the reason behind greater number of views.

7) Domain name misunderstanding:

The domain name YouTube was registered on Valentine’s Day in 2005 and the name was all goofed up as “Universal Tube & Roll-form Equipment”. Later the company changed its domain name as UTubeonline and the confusion among the customers/users of both the companies was cleared.

8) Google’s Most profitable investment:

Being a smart player in the market it was Google who could catch the potential of this video sharing website and offered huge 1.65 billion dollar in the very next year of the inception of YouTube. They sealed the deal in November 2006.

9) The Most popular video other than music is :

Charlie Bit My fingers . At that time it has an immediate 861 million views.

10) The song despacito has the most number of views.

This song has more than 5.1 7 billion views.

11) Most viewed super hero video on youtube:

Batman is the most popular of all superheroes on YouTube, with more than 3 billion views of 71,000 hours of video.

12) More than 1 billion unique users visit YouTube each month.

13) Only 30% of YouTube’s traffic comes from USA. Other countries contribute 70% of the traffic.

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