Strong YouTube Facts to Know in 2020

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YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim in February 2005. The three men were all early employees of PayPal.

Hurley hold studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in United states, whereby Chen and Karim all studied computer science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in United States.

More than 70% of YouTube watch-time comes from mobile devices. Three devices that are popular in watching YouTube include phones, computers and tablets.

From the statistics made by YouTube themselves it is said that the majority of YouTube video viewers come from the phone.

So most hours watched from YouTube channels are from mobile phones. Over 70% of the hours you watch on YouTube come from the phone.

This makes the phone the most widely used device for watching YouTube videos in the world compared to other devices.

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Over one billion hours are watched on YouTube videos daily.

Since YouTube was created it has been growing rapidly in the world due to the increasing number of people using the tools or devices like smartphones that enable them to use YouTube for different purposes like studying, entertainment etc.

Due to that number of over Billion views per day has also made this platform to have more than a billion visitors per day.

This is because not everyone who is accessing YouTube can watch a video for more than one hour a day, others can watch for a just a few minutes only, which is why the number of viewers can be greater than the number of hours.

YouTube has launched local versions in more than 100 countries. To date YouTube is in various versions in over 100 countries.

For example, in Tanzania you will find YouTube tz, this enables you to filter content from within the country.

This is a unique thing that YouTube is dedicated doing to help its visitors get interested contents from YouTube.

The first YouTube Video to be uploaded was “Me at the zoo” and was uploaded in 23rd April 2005 with its co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo.

This video has historically been the first video to be on YouTube since its inception.

In 2018 over 32 million inappropriate videos were removed from the YouTube network.

That year YouTube involved over 10, 000 reviewers who reviewed all the videos and deleted them that are not compatible with the content needed by YouTube network.

So, each year YouTube Team removing content that violates its guidelines. Source

There was a video captured in July 1894: The video shows the oldest cat on YouTube videos.

The video was filmed at Thomas Edison's Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey.