The youtube.com domain name was activated on February 14, 2005, and the first public preview of the site went live eight years ago (May 19th US time). So…birthday!
More than 100 hours or about four days-worth of video is uploaded to the site every minute now. Which is pretty staggering. On average, 1 billion people, almost half of worldwide internet users, visit YouTube every month. And yes, fine, we get it, there are adorable animal videos on YouTube. They are great. But at this point it’s kind of gone beyond that. [YouTube]