YouTube's 10 Year Anniversary

YouTube celebrated its 10 year anniversary this past week on Thursday the 23rd. It was 10 years ago that one of the founders, Jawed Karim, uploaded the first ever video to YouTube. The video was traditional with the type of random, somewhat useless videos we find ourselves clicking on for hours upon end. It was just a video of some elephants with a man talking about their "really, really long trunks." Somehow I feel like this video catches the essence of what YouTube is to all of us, simply a video that is somewhat lackluster but captures our interest for just a short period of time.

Now for some random fact about YouTube!

1. The three co-founders of YouTube sold it to Google just one year after start up for $1.65 billion
2. YouTube consumed as much bandwidth in 2007 as the entire Internet in 2000
3. More than 300 hours of new videos are uploaded to YouTube every minute of the day
4. About 60% of a creator's views come from outside their home country
5. YouTube is available in 61 different languages
6. Thousands of channels on YouTube are making six figures per year
7. 4 billion video views per day
8. YouTube's estimated revenue in 2014 is $4 billion
9. 6 billion hours of videos watched on YouTube per month
10. Gangnam Style broke YouTube's view counter because they never expected a single video to exceed a 32 bit integer value of views.