10 Facts you never knew about YouTube

YouTube celebrated its 5th Birthday on May 16th. It seems like yesterday that Google acquired the upstart back in 2006 when it was only a year old.
So, 5 years on and where are we today? In a wonderful piece in the Daily Telegraph, which interviewed CEO Chad Hurley – I though it would be good to share some facts that you may not know about the channel that has TV in its sights and now has 2billion views a day

196,000,000
The number of times Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance video has been played, making it YouTube’s top video of all time. ‘Charlie bit my finger’, a video of two young brothers, comes a close second with over 185 million views.
45,000,000
The number of ‘hits’ YouTube’s front page receives every day.
1,000,000
In September 2005, Brazilian footballer Ronaldinho’s ‘Touch of Gold’ Nike advert became the first YouTube video to receive a million views.
2007
In December 2007 the Queen launched The Royal Channel, which features her annual Christmas Day message and shows recent and historical footage of the Royal family. In early 2009 Barack Obama and the Pope launched their own channels.
1,700
The number of years that it would take to watch every video on YouTube.
100
The number of years of video that is scanned by YouTube’s Content ID technology every day. Content ID is YouTube’s copyright fingerprinting system which allows rights holders to block or make money from unauthorised use of their material. It is free of charge and being used by 1,000 content partners globally.
70
The percentage of YouTube traffic that comes from outside the US.
24
The number of hours of video that are uploaded to YouTube every minute of the day. This is up 20 per cent from May 2009, when it was getting 20 hours of video uploaded per minute.
23
The number of countries for which YouTube has a localised service. YouTube has been translated into 24 languages.
15
The average number of minutes a YouTube users spends on the site every day.