YouTube was activated on February 15, 2005. Since then, it has been destroying everything before it. Today, people watch over a billion hours of video content a day on this popular video sharing website. Put simply, if the content were played in one piece, it would take more than 100 thousand years to watch it. 100 thousand years ago, our ancestors migrated from Africa and made stone tools, and mammoths roamed the Earth.
YouTube recently revealed an incredible fact. Users check daily for a billion hours of footage. If these clips were played back to back, time would pass in between more than 100 thousand years. If we traveled at the speed of light in that time, we would travel the Milky Way (and not age a day in between!).
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And what is the next challenge for YouTube? We would like to extend the viewing time. In order to keep all this mountain of users, YouTube will next year make it possible to skip ads at the beginning of clips, which is not possible now. In the following, we serve you with some interesting and hardly plausible statistics about the YouTube channel.
YouTube in numbers:
- number of YouTube users: 1.3 billion
- average time a user spends on YouTube per day: 40 minutes
- number of hours of footage uploaded to YouTube every minute: 300
- he has more than a billion views through 10 thousand YouTube clips
- 38 percent of YouTube users are women and 62 percent are men
- more than half of the views are done on mobile devices
- YouTube already speaks 76 languages, covering 95 percent of the online population
