"Me at the Zoo" the first ever YouTube Video was uploaded 15 years ago on 24 April- Learn more interesting facts

YouTube is undoubtedly an essential platform for an average digital media consumer, it has become a staple go to place to get video tutorial, news, entertainment and almost anything. Take a small time out from studies- Here are some interesting fact about YouTube- How many did you know about? mention in the comments.

The co-founder of YouTube Jawed Karim posted the 18-second video which was titled “Me at the zoo.” 15 years ago on 24 April. It has since garnered over 90 million views. To this day, it is the only video on Karim’s channel.

There are more than 2 billion users- almost 1/3 rd of the internet.

YouTube provides digital content in over 100 countries and 80 languages.

Do you know how many hours of content is watched on YouTube Daily- One billion hours.

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Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim created YouTube– online video sharing service in February 2005. They were former PayPal employees.

YouTube started April Fool’s Day pranks in 2008. The custom is followed till date.

YouTube is headquartered in San Bruno, California.

Music video ‘Gangam Style’ was so popular that it broke YouTube’s view counter, which then had to be upgraded.

Realising YouTube’s pottential Google bought YouTube for $1.65Billion in less than two years.

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