YouTube facts and figures
YouTube has grown into the largest video sharing and video content site there is today.
Have a read over some very interesting facts about the site:
2005
February 2005, the origional founders registered the domain youtube.com
April 23, 2005 – first video uploaded to the site
May 2005 – beta launch
June 2005 – embedding of videos enabled
December 2005 – Official Launch, 8 million video views per day
2006
March 2006 – Content Verification Program launched
March 2006 – Filtering technology created and launched
May 2006 – Video comments launched
July 2006 – 100 million video views per day, 65,000 videos uploaded per day.
August 2006 – Advertising channels launched.
October 2006 – Google acquires the site for $1 billion USD.
2007
June 2007 – YouTube launched into 9 other countries
June 2007 – Mobile site released
August 2007 – In video ads launched
September 2007 – Not-for-profit channels launched
October 2007 – Queen of England launches a YouTube channel
December 2007 – YouTube partner program launched
2008
January 2008 – 10 hours of video uploaded every minute
May 2008 – 13 hours of video uploaded every minute
June 2008 – integration into Sony Bravia TV
August 2008 – captions launched
October 2008 – 15 hours of video uploaded every minute
November 2008 – promoted video available
December 2008 – 720p HD launched
2009
January 2009 – US Congress and Presidents channel launched
February 2009 – Vaticans channel launched
March 2009 – Deal signed with Disney
May 2009 – 20 hours of video uploaded every minute
July 2009 – 3D launched
October 2009 – 1 Billion views per day
November 2009 – 1080p full-HD launched
2010
January 2010 – YouTube rentals launched
March 2010 – 24 hours of video uploaded every minute
April 2010 – Indian Premier Cricket streamed live
May 2010 – Over 2 billion video views per day
Other interesting Facts
Most popular video: Lady Gaga’s ‘Bad Romance’ 185.39 million views
Speech recognition technology can translate videos to 51 languages
Site has been localised for 23 countries now
70% of traffic comes from outside the US
On Facebook 46.2 years of Youtube video is viewed per day, MySpace does 5.6 days per year.
stats courtesy of website-monitoring.com
