Twelve YouTube Facts

The YouTube.com domain was bought on Valentine’s Day, 2005.
2. The three YouTube founders - Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim used their money from eBay’s buyout of PayPal to fund YouTube’s Launch
2. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion in October 2006.
3. YouTube's first ad was broadcast in August 2007, just nine months after Google bought the site.
4. During June 2007; YouTube started rolling out localized versions of its site. People in different places would get different recommendations and features, as well as a localized top-level domain (for example, .com, .co .uk, .fr, etc.).
The first 10 countries to get their own YouTube site were the US, UK, Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, and Spain.
5. There Are 98 Versions of YouTube
6. YouTube has been censored by more than 25 countries, including Germany, Finland, and Brazil.
7. YouTube’s annual revenue is about $22 billion. This has led Wall Street analysts to give the brand a value of more than $160 billion.
8. In any given month, 80 percent of North American adults aged between 18 and 49 watch at least one video on YouTube.
9. In the United States, YouTube reaches more 18 to 49-year-olds than any broadcast or cable TV network.
10. For many soccer fans, Brazilian forward Ronaldinho is one of the greatest players to have ever played the game. Thanks to his worldwide popularity, his tricks video (produced by Nike) was the first video to hit one million views in October 2005.
11. Avril Lavigne’s hit Girlfriend was the first song to break 100 million views after its release in 2008.
12. During 2012, Gangnam Style was first to get 1 billion views.