Last Updated:April 25, 2025, 12:05 IST

YouTube completing 20 years in the market would have been unthinkable when the co-founder posted a video called Me at the Zoo in 2005.

YouTube turned 20 this April 2025 and the video streaming platform has come a long way since the first YouTube video titled Me at the Zoo uploaded by YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim in 2005. The platform, now owned by Google has become a video behemoth, with not only just a video app, but a music platform and caters to the latest trends in the market. 

We don’t plan to bore you with any more YouTube history but here are some of the top interesting facts about YouTube that the company has revealed earlier this week: 

YouTube 20th Birthday Interesting Facts 

• YouTube says there are over 20 million videos uploaded daily on the platform.
• The video streaming company has company for its birthday as both YouTube Music and YouTube Kids are turning 10.
• Before YouTube launched the Music app, the company used the codename Woodstock to define its purpose and platform.
• In 2024, YouTube users averaged over 100 million comments on videos on a daily basis.
• YouTube also discovered that creators gave heart to comments from an average of 10 million viewers every day.
• YouTube videos received over 3.5 billion likes from users per day on an average in 2024
• And finally, YouTube says more than 300 music videos on the platform have become part of the billion views club which is a staggering number any way you look at it.

These are just some of the intriguing stats about a platform that has changed the way people watch and consume videos on mobile, web and even their big screens. You will gradually see YouTube integrate AI features into its apps, and yes, get more people to pay for the Premium version, which it says will help the company pay the creators who provide you the content on the platform.

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