- YouTube was founded by three former PayPal employees in February 2005.
- The first video uploaded to YouTube was entitled “Me at the zoo” and was posted by co-founder Jawed Karim on April 23, 2005.
- YouTube receives over 2 billion monthly active users and has become the second largest search engine in the world after Google.
- The most subscribed YouTube channel is T-Series, an Indian music video channel, with over 200 million subscribers.
- The most viewed video on YouTube is “Baby Shark Dance” by Pinkfong, with over 9.8 billion views as of March 2023.
- The highest-paid YouTuber in 2021 was Ryan Kaji, a nine-year-old boy who made $29.5 million from his YouTube channel, Ryan’s World.
- YouTube’s algorithm uses machine learning to recommend videos to users based on their watch history and other data.
- YouTube has been banned in several countries, including China, North Korea, and Iran.
- YouTube was acquired by Google in 2006 for $1.65 billion.
- The average YouTube session lasts around 40 minutes, and users watch over 1 billion hours of videos on the platform every day.
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