YouTube has a rather big anniversary this month, so in celebration we thought we'd toss together some of the most mind-boggling facts you've ever heard. YouTube is a lot bigger than you thought, and the proof is in the pudding (so to speak.)
That’s almost the entire population of Europe and South America COMBINED.
That's more time than almost a half a million people will spend watching TV in their ENTIRE LIVES.
That’s 432,000 hours a day. This means that every day, approximately 50 years worth of videos are uploaded to YouTube.
That's just insane if you really think about it.
We really like our mobile devices and apparently, it shows.
It is that of Psy’s “Gangnam Style”, the popular hit from 2012. At a distant second is Justin Bieber’s “Baby” at 1.2 billion.
It's hard to believe it's been a full decade since the video sharing service launched.
Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawid Karim all were ground-level employees of the popular payment service.
The website “Hot or Not” was popular at the time and they wanted to capitalize. It is also rumored that a similar idea sparked the creation of Facebook (as seen in the movie The Social Network.)
It was a brief video of him at the zoo and was fittingly entitled “Me At the Zoo”.
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Kyle Brigham
Kyle Brigham is the Chief Strategy Officer at Marcel Digital. He specializes in client services and project management, but also original Nintendo games and ping pong.