YouTube: 6 Years and Growing

You Tube 6 Years and Growing JUL 2006 JUN 2007 OCT 2009 FEB 2011 FEB 2005 100M video views per day; 65,000 new video uploads per day OCT 2008 MAR 2010 YouTube announced more than 1 billion views per day YouTube launches 490 million unique users worldwide per in nine countries Founders register domain name and begin work on site 24 hours of video uploaded per minute AND launches YouTube Mobile month 15 hours of video uploaded every minute Did You Know The first video uploaded to YouTube is called "Me At The Zoo", with co-founder Jawed Karim in front of an elephant enclosure at the San Diego Zoo, it is 19 seconds long. It has been viewed 4,796,028 times. More video content is uploaded to YouTube in a 60 day period than the three major U.S. television networks created in 60 years. The average YouTube user spends between 15 and 25 minutes a day on'the site. More than 35 hours of video are uploaded every minute on YouTube. Over 4 million people are connected and auto-sharing to at least one social network. An AutoShared Tweet results in 6 new youtube.com sessions. Over 5 million people have found and subscribed to at least one friend on YouTube. YouTube is localized in 25 countries across 43 languages! Top 5 Viewed Videos Currently Playing On YouTube Will your video be next? Justin Bieber - Baby ft. Ludacris Uploaded 1 year ago 533,197,075 views Lady Gaga - Bad Romance Uploaded 1 year ago 374,368,784 views Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) Uploaded 11 months ago 337,746,996 views 3 YouTube is Social! Eminem - Love The Way You Lie Uploaded 9 months ago 329,057,142 views FACEBOOK - 32,573,317 fans TWITTER - 2,623,002 followers Charlie bit my finger - again! Uploaded 4 years ago 314,960,400 views LINKEDIN - 5,512 followers YouTube ranks 3rd in the top five visited websites Google.com, Facebook.com, YouTube.com, Yahoo.com, Blogspot.com Easiest way to get video up on YouTube? Use the record from webcam option, or upload right from your mobile phone. Google Google acquired YouTube on October 6, 2006, for $1.65 billion, which is actually Google's second largest acquisition. STATS FROM youtube.com, mashable.com, alexa.com, mostpopularwebsites.net facebook.com, twitter.com, .linkedin.com bly one creative agency 4+