YouTube Facts

The domain name www.youtube.com was registered on February 14, 2005.

At YouTube Headquarters, employees can either take the elevator, stairs or slide.

A Christian pastor named Will Duffy flew 24 flat-Earthers and 24 globe-Earthers to Antarctica's Union Glacier at $35,000 a head in December 2024 and livestreamed the 24-hour sun for three days. Jeran Campanella - a YouTuber with 164,000 flat-Earth subscribers - watched the sun circle overhead and said on camera: "Sometimes, you're wrong in life." He stepped away from the movement.

YouTube launched on Valentine's Day 2005 as a video dating site. The slogan was 'Tune In, Hook Up.' Users were meant to upload videos describing their ideal partner - nobody did. The founders even posted on Craigslist to recruit women to the site. Still no takers. So they opened the platform to any video. Less than two years later, Google paid $1.65 billion for it.