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.