45 Amazing Facts About YouTube

26-30 YouTube Facts

26. Peter Oakley, otherwise known as Geriatric1972, was the most subscribed user on YouTube in August 2006. The channel comprises of him describing events in his past, which includes serving the British army in WW2, a continued posting videos until he died on March 23, 2014. – Source

27. In addition to Maru, there are more than 100 other Japanese cats who have YouTube partner status. “There are cats that are making more money than the average salary in Japan,” said a YouTube insider. – Source

28. YouTube “freezes” the view count at 301 when videos start getting lots of views. The real numbers are posted once all the traffic to the video is verified as genuine. – Source

29. Family Guy once used footage from 9-year-old YouTube video in one of its episodes without permission from the owner. The owner’s original clip was then removed from Youtube for copyright infringement. – Source

30. YouTube acknowledges the first rickroll as an important event in its history. – Source

31-35 YouTube Facts

31. Right clicking a YouTube video allows you to “Copy video URL at current time”. – Source

32. A mother once built a house for her and her children by watching YouTube tutorials. – Source

33. Webdriver Torso is a YouTube channel that uploads a video every 1 to 20 minutes, consisting of red and blue rectangles. The channel has over 390,000 videos. It is used internally by Google for testing the quality of YouTube videos. – Source

34. John Green played FIFA as the club AFC Wimbledon, uploaded it to YouTube and then donated the ad revenue to the club itself. As a result, he is listed as an official sponsor and has a logo on the club’s kit as well as a stand named after him. – Source

35. When Monty Python started uploading their comedy skits to YouTube so they could be watched legally for free, their DVD sales went up by 16,000%. – Source

36-40 YouTube Facts

36. YouTube and Netflix together make up half of peak Internet traffic in North America. – Source

37. You can click on the number of views on a YouTube video, and it will expand, giving you a history of the video, what age and gender groups like the video most, and in what countries it is popular. – Source

38. There are YouTube bots that plagiarize news stories using full automation. They regularly steal written content and images from numerous news outlets and automatically generate hundreds of videos per month as their own. It’s making the bot/channel owners incredible amounts of money. – Source

39. As part of an experiment, a guy on YouTube decided to upload and download the same video again and again for 1000 times in order to display the gradual regression of audio and video quality. – Source

40. If you tried to watch every video on YouTube, you would fall behind more than two days for every minute of video you watched. – Source

41-45 YouTube Facts

41. YouTube is the second largest search engine on the net. – Source

42. Blind people have absolutely no concept of what color is, and describing it to them is currently impossible. A blind man has a whole YouTube channel dedicated to what its like to be blind, this being the most common question he receives. – Source

43. China’s equivalent of YouTube, “Youku” has a partnership with over 1500 license holders allowing people to watch previous and currently-airing TV shows in their entirety online for free (with ads). – Source

44. The first video ever to hit a million views on YouTube was a Nike commercial starring Ronaldinho. – Source

45. Jackie Chan’s first movie appearance, Big and Little Wong Tin Bar (1962), was considered to be a lost film, as no known copies of the film existed. However, this was not the case, as on February 3rd, 2016, the entire movie was suddenly uploaded to YouTube. –Source