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Three former PayPal employees, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karem make service to upload videos to the internet. After a decade, the service is booming. The three were named the site, YouTube.
The presence of YouTube for the first time this has happened on February 14, 2005, a year later able to attract Google's YouTube to buy it. Dowry worth US $ 1,6 billion was given in order to YouTube belong to the internet company.
A decade has YouTube, of only one video belongs Jawed Karim, now there are 300 million videos are uploaded every minute. The number of viewers reached 2 billion per month.
As the service is great, of course, YouTube has the facts that many people may not know. Here CNN Indonesia lay, which cited data from the Pew Research.
1. Three of the 10 people who watched YouTube are adults. This amount is equivalent to 31% of the total number of visitors. There is a significant increase of 14% in 2009.
Of total online users around the world, as much as 72% of them are fond of visiting video sharing services such as YouTube. While in other sites are Vimeo.
2. The animals, especially cats are 'leaders' in the most videos posted by users every day to YouTube. The amount of content featuring pets reach 45% of the total, in 2013.
While the rest or as much as 58% of the video is displayed showing the activities with friends and family. Of that figure, 54% of them are funny video. While only 30% for videos about video tutorials and 23% based on the script.
3. From the users aged adults, according to a Pew Research survey, YouTube is the second largest social network after Facebook.
In a survey conducted in mid-2014, Facebook is used 77% of adults, followed by YouTube in figure 63%. While LinkedIn and Google Plus followed sequentially 25% and 24%.
4. YouTube most popular among young people mature, blacks and Hispanics. Like many social networking sites, YouTube is widely used by users between the ages of 18 to 29 years with a percentage of 82%.
In the racial and ethnic differences, blacks 72% and 74% Hispanic, where 57% of them were white.
5. Users are increasingly using YouTube and other social networking sites to share videos related news and important information.
From that data, 12% of social media users have posted a video of news events to social networking sites. Pew Research examined hundreds of the most popular news videos on YouTube and found that nearly 40% is produced by non-journalists.
Many of these videos show a natural disaster or political unrest, such as the Japanese tsunami or protests in the Arab peninsula. (CNN Indonesia)
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