For many, YouTube is not just a place to watch all sorts of videos, but the main kind of earnings. But now we will not talk about the activities of bloggers, but what interesting YouTube hid from us.
1. In Berlin, Los Angeles, London, Mumbai, New York, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo and Toronto, there are special sites for bloggers. You can safely take your videos here, but only on condition that at least 10,000 people subscribe to your channel.
2. You without the consent of the author of the video fragment, audio, published this material in your video? Be prepared for the fact that if YouTube detects a violation, then the owner of the intellectual property can easily claim a share of the advertising revenue.
3. Have you seen the video "Charlie Bit My Finger"? And no, it's not some kind of horror. It's just a movie with two kids. But the main thing here is that over 10 years he scored 860,671,012 views. Owners of video received from him such income, that it would be enough to buy a new house.
4. Did you know that China blocked access to the site back in 2009? The reason for this was a flooded video in which Chinese soldiers beat up Tibetan monks and other Tibetans.
5. On December 14, 2011, the longest video uploaded (596 hours, 31 minutes and 21 seconds) was uploaded. He has 2 million views, however, it is unlikely that someone has inspected it to the end.
6. If you post an interesting video and it becomes popular, then it is possible that you will receive a letter from America's Funniest Home Videos asking to publish it in exchange for the opportunity to win $ 100,000.
7. Every minute, 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube. If someone decided to look through all the currently available videos, then he would need for this 1700 years.
8. One of the highest paid YouTube is DC. He registered his channel in 2011, and today he has 1,400,000 subscribers (well, and a gold button). This guy just buys toys and makes video reviews of them.
9. The founders of Youtube initially contributed to the development of PayPal payment system services (yes, to the one that Ilon Mask founded).
10. It is interesting that the Kenyan spearjack Julius Yego, who won Olympic silver in 2016, was trained in the technique of correct casting using video on Youtube.
11. The average earnings of the steepest YouTube are no more than $ 500. The most part of their assets is advertising of some goods.
12. Do you know which video got the most dislikes? It turns out that this is Justin Bieber's Baby clip (7,798,987 dislikes).
13. In 2014, the grumpy Grumpy Cat with the help of YouTube earned more money than actress Gwyneth Paltrow in the same year.
14. The famous YouTube-pranker Jack Vale thanks to his channel earned $ 0.4 million. By the way, he has 1,300,000 followers.
15. Nowadays the general director of "Youtube" Susan Vojitsky in 1998 handed over her garage. "What's the garage for?" You ask.
It turns out that this room served as the first headquarters of Google. He was filmed at the time of the graduate students of Stanford University - Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Less than a year after the fateful decision, Susan became a marketer in an unknown Google startup, not afraid to leave a stable job at Intel.
16. Scientists, brain activity and Youtube videos are all related to each other. It turns out that scientists have created a complex computer model that describes the correspondence of pictures of brain activity with images. And in this huge base were recorded 18 million seconds of videos taken on YouTube.
17. YouTube banned North Korea, and all due to violation of the rules of the video sharing community.
18. Although the reasons for the ban are different (from sexual content to scandals in politics), ten countries have banned YouTube (Brazil, Turkey, Germany, Libya, Thailand, Turkmenistan, China, North Korea, Iran and Pakistan) in whole or in part.
19. The most popular video of the past year was the clip of Despacito Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, who collected more than 4.4 billion views.
20. The first video uploaded to YouTube Me at the zoo lasted only 19 seconds. On it one of the founders of video hosting, Javed Karim, stood in the background of an enclosure with elephants. All he said was, "Well, here we stand before the elephants. The cool thing is that they have very, very, very long trunks. This is cool. And nothing more to say to me. " Here is material evidence.
21. Ted Williams in the past worked as a radio broadcaster. Later, the homeless, and now bears the title of "Golden Voice". So, he became famous and got a job thanks to the video posted on YouTube by the editorial office of the local newspaper, where the man demonstrates his voice. By the way, here is the video itself.
22. After Google, YouTube is the second most frequently used search engine on the Internet. And Bing, Yandex graze the back.
23. Once YouTube blocked the children's channel Vlad Crazy Show. Do you know what is the reason for this action? It turns out that the channel promoted the love of ... fast food.
24. The US uploads more videos to YouTube. They are followed by Great Britain. Also, the US ranks first in terms of the number of users, and in the second, Japan.
25. 60% of the top YouTube videos are blocked in Germany.
26. In Peter Oakley, an ordinary retiree from Derbyshire, England, in 2006, there were the most subscribers among users of his age category.
His nickname is geriatric1927. Do you know what this most beautiful person told? About his life, shared memories of how he fought in the ranks of the British army during World War II. He shot 5-10-minute autobiographical videos until February 12, 2014. And on March 23, 2014, Peter died of oncology, which did not respond to treatment ...
27. In addition to the popular cat on the "Yutyube" called Maru, there are many other interesting fuzzy. So, in the top most popular are: Angry cat or Grumpy Cat, Simon, Surprised Kitty, Cat-Bain and the cat Henri, who tells about the meaning of life, their feelings. Here's a couple for you.
28. Until 2015, the website stopped the video view counter at around 301 views in order to check for fraudulent scams. Now it was canceled.
29. Here is another proof that YouTube does not tolerate copyright infringement.
For example, a couple of years ago, one of the users could not upload video of wildlife shooting to the service. Service algorithms recognized bird trills as copyrighted materials, and the video was required to put a link to the owner's website for sound. Even the appeal did not give anything.
30. Just do not say that you did not dance like a South Korean performer in your Gangnam Style video? By the way, his video is the most viewed on the site (70 billion views).
31. And in August of last year, Google decided to post "urgent news" on the YouTube homepage.
32. Kara Brukins and her four children live in Arkansas, USA. In 2008, they personally built the house, relying on YouTube-lessons.
The woman decided to take such a step, first of all, for the reason that she could not afford the real estate offered by realtors. And later she wrote the book "I built a house with YouTube."
33. The site has a Webdriver channel, all videos of which are 10 slides with red or blue rectangles.
34. The author of the book "Blame the Stars" John Greene along with his brother leads the channel.
In addition, he is an ardent fan of the English "Wimbledon" and plays for him in FIFA. Revenues from blogging they donate to the club itself, and more recently John Green has become his official sponsor.
35. The most popular type of video format how to (how ...). For example, "How to determine the shape of the eyebrows?", "How to assemble a Rubik's cube?" And so on.
36. The list of the most interesting YouTube-bloggers, telling about everything in the world, includes the following: Mental Floss, CGPGrey, Sonia's Travels, Minute Physics.
37. If you click on the number of views under any video, you will see the exact statistics (in which countries this video is popular, who likes it more, to men or women, what age category, etc.).
38. Lean On is a clip of Major Lazer and DJ Snake, as well as one of the most popular videos on the site (2,271,993,018 views).
39. As an experiment, the guy decided to upload his video several times. Well, how many? Only 1,000 times. This was done in order to visually demonstrate the rapid deterioration of picture and sound.
40. If you add up the number of daily views of all YouTube videos, you get 3 billion.
41. The first video, which we mentioned just above, was uploaded to YouTube on Valentine's Day in 2005.
42. Tommy Edison is one of the most popular bloggers, film critics. True, there is a small "but". So, this man is blind.
43. The list "Not like everything" should include YouTube Ricky Pointer. On her channel the girl talks about how a person who has lost hearing is living. In addition, it seeks to develop culture and socialize other deaf and deaf people.
44. The first video that received 1 million views was Nike's ad with the handsome Cristiano.
45. Instead of the banned in China, Youtube, there is its analogue - Youku.
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Statistics say that a third of the population of our planet uses Youtube, and it's not surprising. Video hosting provides many opportunities not only for interesting pastime, but also for self-realization, learning and business.