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YouTube was invented by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim out of a garage in Menlo Park, California. -
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History of YouTube from Feruary to modern day. -
YouTube Goes Mobile
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YouTube was sold to Google for $1.65 billion. The 65 employees will coninue to work with the company at YouTube’s San Bruno headquarters. Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim each became millionaires when they sold it. -
Hours of Video
The amount of time that videos get uploaded to Youtube was 15 hous of video for every minute in October 10 2011. -
Mobile and Devices
Traffic from mobile devices tripled in 2011. More than 20% of global YouTube views come from mobile devices. 3 hours of video is uploaded per minute to YouTube from mobile devices. It is available on 350 million devices -
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•500 years of YouTube video are watched every day on Facebook, and over 700 YouTube videos are shared on Twitter each minute
100 million people take a social action on YouTube (likes, shares, comments, etc) every week. More than 50% of videos on YouTube have been rated or include comments from the community. Clicks on the ‘like’ or ‘dislike’ button on YouTube have doubled since the start of 2011.
