Top 7 fascinating facts about YouTube everyone should know
By Unnati Gusain
Most people don't know the original concept for the site was for it to be a dating platform.
YouTube was bought by Google for a whopping $1.65 billion just 18 months after it first launched on the web.
YouTube says there are over 20 million videos uploaded daily on the platform.
In 2024, YouTube users averaged over 100 million comments on videos on a daily basis.
YouTube videos received over 3.5 billion likes from users per day on an average in 2024
Jawed Karim published the first official video in YouTube’s history. It is titled “Me at the zoo”.
Specifically, the country with the most YouTube users is India, with 491 million, ahead of the United States (253) and Brazil (144).