YouTube is now 20 years old. It was launched in the year 2005 and since then more than 20 billion videos have been uploaded on this platform. About 20 million videos are uploaded on the platform every day and get billions of likes. YouTube keeps doing some new experiments from time to time to retain its users and in the coming time, you are going to see many new features. These include customized multiview, voice reply, and 'Ask Music' for YouTube TV. These will improve user experience and community interaction.

YouTube was started by three friends Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, and the site was registered on 14 February 2005. After this, in November 2006, Google bought this site for $ 1.65 billion, since then it has been working as a subsidiary of Google. Let us tell you that the first video shared on YouTube was just 19 seconds long “Me at the Zoo”. This video was shot by YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. In this simple video, Karim is standing in front of elephants and from here a digital revolution started unknowingly.

99% of people do not know these 5 things about YouTube

1. According to YouTube, by April 2025, more than 20 million videos are uploaded to YouTube every day.

2. YouTube Music and YouTube Kids are both turning 10 years old! But before the launch of YouTube Music, it was known by the codename Woodstock.

3. In 2024, YouTube users made an average of more than 100 million comments daily and creators hearted the comments of an average of 10 million viewers every day.

4. Last year, on average, YouTube videos received more than 3.5 billion likes daily from users.

5. More than 300 music videos on YouTube are included in the billion views club.

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