- 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.
Top YouTubers in Canada as of March 2023
It’s important to note that these rankings can change frequently, as subscriber counts can fluctuate and new YouTubers can rise to prominence.