Did You Know?

• More than 6 billion hours of video are watched every month on YouTube; Over 1 billion unique users visit YouTube every month, according to recent research of 2016. The longest video on YouTube created by Jonathan Harchick is 571 hours, 1 minute, and 41 seconds. Gangnam Style is the most watched and most liked video. It is said that it broke their views counter which had to be programmed again. YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steven Chen, and Jawed Karim. They registered the domain name in February 2005 and officially launched the site in December of that year. In October 2006, Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion in stocks - just 18 months after YouTube’s creation. Karim received $66 million in Google stock, Chen received $310 million, and Hurley received $334 million.