Top 10 Facts About YouTube

Launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim

– YouTube Was Originally Designed to Be a Dating Site.

PayPal Funded YouTube's Launch

Google Owns YouTube

There Are 98 Versions of YouTube

YouTube is a More Popular Search Engine than Bing, Yahoo!

– Google Bought YouTube for $1.65 billion Just a Year and a Half After it Launched.

Every minute, over 100 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube

The most popular topic that is searched for is, of course, music!

The most popular tutorial that is searched for is “How to kiss.” The second most-searched-for tutorial is “how to tie a tie.”