10 YouTube Facts That May Surprise You

YouTube is huge. Humongous, even. More video content is uploaded to YouTube in a 60 day period than the three major U.S. television networks created in 60 years.

The average YouTube user spends between 15 and 25 minutes a day on the site, but how much do we know about the world's largest video sharing website? Do you know what the most watched YouTube clip is? Can you name all three founders? Do you know how many times per minute a YouTube link is tweeted?

There is a ton of interesting data, info and stats to be learned about YouTube.

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Can you even remember a world before YouTube? We personally have trouble remembering anything from the pre-YouTube era. It almost seems like the video streaming site has been around forever. Maybe that’s just because we love the site so much, love for YouTube help spawn cloud culture so in honor of our deep love of everyone’s favorite source of cat videos and mindless content, here are 100 fascinating facts about YouTube.

10 Facts about YouTube:

1. YouTube was created in February 2005.
2. YouTube was originally created by three former PayPal employees.
3. The company was created after one of its founders became frustrated with trying to share video footage of a dinner party. He was unable to do so over email because of attachment size limits.
4. In November 2006, Google purchased YouTube for $1.65 Billion.
5. YouTube’s first headquarters were above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, CA.
6. The first YouTube video was titled “Me at the zoo” and shows founder co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo.
7. “Me at the zoo” was uploaded at 8:27 PM on Saturday, April 23, 2005.
8. The 19 second video has been viewed over 30 million times.
9. The first video to reach 1 million views was a Nike Ad featuring Ronaldinho in September 2005.
10. By July 2006, YouTube announced over 65,000 videos uploaded every day.