Today, I’ve got a trio of infographics for you, all centered around a lovely little video site called YouTube. I’m sure you’ve all heard of it – after all, it’s kind of a big deal. It’s the third most visited website on the Internet, with hundreds of millions of monthly unique visitors, and the equivalent of over 150,000 full-length movies uploaded to the site every week as of 2010 – twenty four hours every minute. That’s a touch insane, no? Further, by June of that year, YouTube had streamed over 5 billion videos. The second place domain, Hulu, had a paltry 500,000.
These facts and others comprise the first of our infographics, “The State of YouTube.” It’s a bit dated, true, but it still gives a good idea of how huge YouTube really is, and it’s not terribly difficult to extrapolate beyond that, anyway. YouTube was huge then, and it’s even huger now, even with a whole string of competitors springing up.
In addition to the facts included in The State of YouTube, we’re going to have a look at the domain’s history.
Founded on Valentine’s Day back in 2005 by Steve Chan, Jawed Karim and Chad Hurley, YouTube was originally created by the trio to share videos of a friends dinner party. Had it not been for the size limitation placed on email messages, they may never have developed the site. It was founded on Valentines day, and the first video posted on it was an eighteen second clip titled “Me at the Zoo.” Since then, it’s grown to be the largest video sharing site on the web. The second of the three infographics, titled simply “YouTube” looks at the website’s rise to fame, while the second infographic, “YouTube: Six Years and Growing” details a number of lesser-known facts about the domain (including a brief timeline of its development).
All three infographics can be found below. As always, click for a larger copy.
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It surprises me that it is not banned in North Korea.