- The three founders of YouTube (Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim) worked on Paypal, when we started the project.
- Domain YouTube was registered on the day of St . Valentine ( 14 February 2005 ) .
- 70 % of registered YouTube users from the USA, 50% of YouTube users under the age of 20 years .
- If YouTube was a Hollywood film company , he would have enough material to produce 60 000 new movies every week .
- In order to make as many videos as it was uploaded to YouTube in the last 2 months , broadcasters NBC, ABC, CBS would have to work around the clock seven days a week since 1948 .
- The total volume of traffic on YouTube about the same as has been used all over the Internet in 2000
- It should be more than 1,000 years to watch all the videos on Youtube ( but by the time the videos uploaded on YouTube, will be more per billion) .
- The most popular category to download videos - is "Music" , it contains about 20 % of all videos YouTube.
- United States uploaded to YouTube over all video , followed by the United Kingdom. Also, the majority of US users watching video, the second highest rated - Japan .
- The first-ever video posted on YouTube, this " I'm in a zoo " , downloaded Apr. 23, 2005 one of the founders of YouTube, Jawed Karim .
- The daily number of video views on YouTube exceeds 2 billion.
- Google bought YouTube in 2006 for 1.65 billion dollars.
- The first video, which opened the Russian version of YouTube to the 2007th year , became Peter Nalich clip for the song " Guitar " .
- March 13, 2007 Company «Viacom» filed suit against Google, accusing the service of YouTube's massive copyright infringement and requiring it to transfer the personal data of users of the service . A federal judge of the Southern District of New York granted the plaintiff's claim that the United States is contrary to federal law .
- Many users whose videos become popular on YouTube, later became stars and is the Internet. For example, a boy superstar of Canada Justin Bieber got a costly contract with record label due to its records, which his mother is laid out on YouTube.
- Video marked as deleted are not necessarily physically removed . With special applications, such as Deleted YouTube Video Viewer, these files can be viewed
- According to the statistics of November 2010 , in a moment on YouTube loaded 35 hours of video , and on the day - 50 400 hours .
- In March 2009, the Chinese government blocked access to YouTube after a video appeared on it by Chinese soldiers beating Tibetan monks and other Tibetans .
- According to Wikipedia, February 15, 2005 - the official start of the history of YouTube.
