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YouTube facts are worth a read!
YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by three ex-PayPal employees.
It was originally funded with the bonuses that the employees received when eBay bought out PayPal.
The first-ever YouTube video was uploaded on April 23, 2005. It is a video of its co-founder at the San Diego Zoo.
Initially, YouTube was created as a video dating site called “Tune In Hook Up.”
Only 18 months after YouTube was founded, Google bought it for $1.65 billion in stocks.
There are over one billion users on YouTube, which is nearly one-third of everyone on the Internet.
YouTube opened a production space in Los Angeles that is free to use – but only if you have at least 10,000 subscribers.
The oldest cat video on YouTube is dated back to 1894. It features two cats boxing.
Every minute, over 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube.
In 2014, the famous YouTube star, Grumpy Cat, earned more money than Gwyneth Paltrow – an Oscar-Winning Actress.
Google, of course, is the biggest search engine in the world. But right behind it is Youtube, which is bigger than Bing, Yahoo!, and Ask combined.
Every April Fool’s Day, YouTube plays a prank on its millions of users.
When they played their first prank, they turned the website upside down, and Rick Rolled everyone.
Rickrolling made its first appearance on YouTube in 2009. At the height of Rickrolling, which was 2008, over 18 million US adults were Rickrolled.
Every month, YouTubers watch 6 billion hours of videos per month and 4 billion videos every day.
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