TOP Fascinating, Incredible and interesting Facts about YouTube 2019 |
- The domain name “YouTube.com” was activated on February 14, 2005
- The first YouTube video was uploaded on 23 April 2005. Me at the Zoo shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo
- On October 9, 2006, it was announced that YouTube would be purchased by Google for US$1.65 billion
- The first adverts were rolled out in August 2007
- In May 2010, YouTube served more than 2 billion views a day.
- YouTube first streamed the US Presidential debates in 2012.
- By March 2013, YouTube was now seeing 1bn monthly active users.
- The platform has over 1.9bn logged in monthly users.
- 6 out of 10 people prefer online video platforms to live TV.
- By 2025, half of the viewers under 32 will not subscribe to a pay-TV service
- In an average month, 8 out of 10 18-49 year-olds watch YouTube
- In 2015, 18-49 year-olds spent 4% less time watching TV while time on YouTube went up 74%
- On mobile alone, YouTube reaches more 18-49 year-olds than any broadcast or CABLE TV network
- You can navigate YouTube in a total of 80 different languages (covering 95% of the Internet population)
- The platform has also launched in over 91 countries
- Daniel Middleton, better known as DanTDM, is the highest earning YouTuber, bringing in $16.5m in 2017
- YouTube is the world’s second largest search engine and third most visited site after Google and Facebook
- 400 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute
- We watch over 1 billion hours of YouTube videos a day, more than Netflix and Facebook video combined
- 70% of YouTube views come from mobile devices
- The average mobile viewing session lasts more than 40 minutes
- The first video to hit one million views was a Nike advert featuring Ronaldinho
- The video with the highest number of views is currently the music video for ‘Despacito’ by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee. It has over 5.87bn views
- It took Gangnam Style, a previous most watched video, five months to hit 1 billion views. In comparison, Despacito took just 97 days
- The video with the most views that isn’t a music video is ‘Masha and The Bear – Recipe for disaster (Episode 17)’ by getting Movies. It currently has over 3bn views
- The most popular YouTube channel belongs to PewDiePie.
- On average, there are 1,000,000,000 mobile video views per day
- The most searched term on YouTube is ‘despacito’, followed by ‘bts’.
- The time people spend watching YouTube on their TV has more than doubled in the last year
- Among millennials, YouTube accounts for two-thirds of the premium online video watched across devices
- 9% of U.S small businesses use Youtube
- As of October 2014, YouTube has paid out $2 billion to rights holders since 2007
- The number of channels earning six figures each year on YouTube has increased by 50% year on year
- The most popular branded channel is currently LEGO, which has amassed over 6bn views
- Viewers who complete TrueView ads—watched to completion or at least 30 seconds—were 23 times more likely to visit or subscribe to a brand channel, watch more by that brand, or share the brand video
- Viewers who are exposed to TrueView ads but who don’t watch to completion are still 10 times more likely to take one of those actions.
- When brands use TrueView, they see views of previously existing content increase by up to 500% after posting new videos
- In 2018, 95% of the most watched videos were music videos
- The most subscribed to the non-music channel is the how-to channel 5-Minute Crafts.
- Interbrand’s Top 100 Brands are collectively uploading a video to YouTube every 18.5 minutes
- The same brands have an average of 2.4 channels
- Searches of “how to” videos on YouTube are growing 70% year on year
Crazy, mind-boggling numbers. If you are simply a YouTube viewer who wanted to know the numbers behind the magic of online video, I hope these statistics have left you suitably impressed. Now get back to the cat videos.If you are a marketer who is trying to decide if online video is a good way to reach your audience, these YouTube stats should demonstrate the amazing reach that can be had on YouTube.