More YouTube Interesting Facts

Here are some interesting tidbits to one-up your friends.

• YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world. It processes more queries than Bing and Yahoo combined. (It also means Google owns the world’s two most popular search engines).
  
• Ten years of new video is uploaded every day with 72 hours of newly uploaded video every minute.
  
• The first Spanish-language video on YouTube to amass more than 1 billion views was Enrique Iglesias’ reggaeton song, Bailando.
  
• The only non-music video in the most watched YouTube videos of all time is a Russian-language version of an episode of children's TV show, Masha and The Bear. It has been watched 3.4 billion times and counting.
• In total, 17 different videos have held the record for being the most watched video on YouTube. The current holder is Luis Fonsi’s hit, Despacito LINK with over 6 billion views. (Gangnam Style has only a bit over 3 billion views)
  
• The YouTube Rewind 2018 video is universally disliked with 15 million downvotes in its first month.
• Of the 7 billion videos available, more than 20 percent of videos are switched off within the first 10 seconds of playback.
• We watch four billion hours of video every month—that is 456,621 years worth.