Social Media - Amazing Facts

• YouTube

1. YouTube was founded to share dinner clips of a party due to the files being too large for email.


2. The most watched video is Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance, with 470 million views.


3. The most watched non-commercial video is Charlie Bit My Finger Again, with over 458 million views.


4. The average visitor spends 15 minutes per day on YouTube.


5. It originally started life as a dating site and was influenced by the Hot Or Not website.

• Google+

1. “Student” is the number one occupation of Google+ users.


2. More than 2/3 of its users are male.


3. The Google +1 button is used more than 5 billion times per day.

4. Google+ is adding 625,000 new users every day.


5. More than 42% of Google+ users are single.