Cool YouTube Facts
1. Out of the 100 most viewed YouTube videos, only 3 are not centered around music.
2. PewDiePie makes over $8 million USD a year purely off his YouTube channel.
3. The average online UK consumer watches 300 videos on YouTube per month
4. Do you ever go on YouTube to watch a music video and then 5 hours later find yourself watching a tutorial on how to talk to a giraffe?
5. In 2010, YouTube was watched 700 billion times, but 99% of the views were of only 30% of the videos.
6. YouTube sees about 4 billion video views every day.
7. If you want to download a Youtube video, just add "ss" to the URL between www. and Youtube
8. It would take one person about 1,700 years to watch every video on YouTube.
9. YouTube founders used Craigslist to promote the site, they offered $100 to attractive girls to post videos of themselves.
10. The first YouTube video was uploaded 10 years ago today.
Trending in Just For Fun
Navy FactsThe Royal Navy uses blasts of Britney Spears’s ‘Oops! . . . I Did It Again’ to scare off Somali pirates.
HTML Facts1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually transmitted disease.
51 Internet FactsIn 2011, the United Nations declared that access to the Internet is a basic human right.
32 Christmas Facts‘Santa Claus Is Coming to Town’ was first sung in November 1934. By Christmas, it had sold 400,000 copies.
Fire FactsNick Clegg once did community service for setting fire to a rare cactus collection while drunk on a school trip.
Lego FactsThe Lego company was originally called Billund Maskinsnedkeri.
Arrow FactsIn 1552, Henry Pert died after shooting himself in the face with his own bow and arrow.
178 Sleep FactsThe average person in Coventry sleeps for 6 hours and 5 minutes a night.
Traffic FactsTraffic lights were introduced 18 years before the car was invented.
44 Gold FactsIn 2011, Australia minted a giant ‘A$1 million’ gold coin. It weighed over a ton and used gold worth A$52 million.
Spring FactsJerry Springer was born in Highgate Tube station.