YouTube.com was created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim in 2005 who were all employees of Paypal. It was created for the friends to share video clips of a dinner party which was too large to email because Hurley and Chen were unable to share video footage of a dinner party. Every week, the videos uploaded can form a 60,000 full-length movies. At present, there are videos enough which would take you 1700 years to watch out. So, here we present you with some of the tricks and facts about the Video site. Check it out.
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2. In January,2013 they added new feature which lets you "send" videos from your iPhone to your TV
3. YouTube have lots of competitors in the online video market like DailyMotion, MixBit etc. but still this website is in Top 5 since its launch.
4. YouTube gets 4 billion views per day.
5. In April 2013, YouTube relives the VHS era by adding Tape Mode which turns clips into the familiar 80s-style VHS copies. The new feature marks the 57th birthday of the first commercially available video cassette recorder, popularly known as VCR.
6. At YouTube Headquarters, employees can either take the elevator, stairs or slide.
7. It was initially funded by bonuses received following the eBay buy-out of PayPal.
8. The domain name YouTube.com was registered on Valentine’s Day in 2005.
9. The domain name caused a huge misunderstanding for Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment because of their domain utube.com, was overwhelmed with traffic from people that tried to spell the video site’s name phonetically.
10. The first video on YouTube was Me at the Zoo shot at the San Diego Zoo, uploaded by one of the co-founders Jawed Karim talking about elephant’s trunks.
11. The first video has received over 4.8 million views.
12. It is localized in 25 countries across 43 languages.
13. Google paid $1.65 billion for YouTube in November 2006.
14. The ‘how to’ video category is the fastest growing vertical on it.
15. 70% of the traffic comes from outside the US.
16. There are over 7,000 hours of full-length movies and shows on the site.
17. It has more HD content than any other online video site, which makes 10% of the total videos on it. 18. The YouTube player is embedded across tens of millions of websites.
19. There are more than 400 tweets per minute containing a YouTube link.
20. The most watched music video is Justin Bieber’s “Baby” with more than 600 million views.
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How to Block Advertisement Videos on YouTube
YouTube is one of the most used websites today, so it is obvious to attract advertisers but sometimes advertisements make you feel boring or annoyed. Now, at start of each and every Video there is advertisement placed in it. Today we will learn about blocking or skipping these Ads. Here we will provide you with a software which removes all video ads before and during actual videos. Moreover, it will removes all those ads that pop at the bottom of the screen while the video is playing. The software works smoothly with all browsers such Internet explorer, Google chrome and Mozilla Firefox.- Download YouTube Ads Blocker from following link:
- 2. Double click on downloaded file.
- 3. Follow the on screen instruction.
- 4. Install and enjoy the Ad-free Videos.
Snake Game on YouTube
This is one of the oldest tricks as well as game. Today, we will check how to play snake game on YouTube. Steps are as follows:- 1. Go to YouTube and choose any video.
- 2. While video is streaming press left button of mouse and press UP arrow key.
- 3. Now the streaming circle will start to move like a snake.
- 4. Play this snake game with Arrow keys.
Downloading YouTube Videos on Nokia Mobiles [Symbian]
This trick is to download Videos on any mobile using Opera Mini. Steps are as follows:- 1. Go to any Video you want to download
- 2. Now, go to URL of that video. You will see it like m.youtube.com/lMDezte8ZnY. Here, you need to remove "m." from url.
- 3. Now, just add "ss" in place of "m."
- 4. It will redirects you to a new page with download video button.
- 5. Actually, this is an another website which helps downloading videos using opera mini. The new site http://en.savefrom.net
Watching Age Restriction Videos without Signing In
Sometime YouTube asks you to sign in for your age verification in order to watch 18+ videos. Today, we will show you how easy it is for you to watch the same videos without having YouTube Account. This trick is 100% working as of 2013. Check out these simple steps to know the trick :- 1. Get the URL of video you want to watch. As shown below. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMDezte8ZnY
- 2. Now copy the Video ID. For above link video ID is lMDezte8ZnY
- 3. Paste the Video ID in the link given below. http://www.youtube.com/v/VideoId?fs=1 Replace VideoId with the your video ID.
- 4. Now, the URL will become as shown below. http://www.youtube.com/v/lMDezte8ZnY?fs=1
- 5. You are done. Enjoy your Video.
Download YouTube Videos Without Software
1. Copy the URl of any video you want to download.
2. Let us say your video URl reads as: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMDezte8ZnY
3. Here, you just need to add
"save" or "ss" or "kick" before "youtube" and press enter.
4. After adding any of the above keywords, the link will look like: http://www.saveyoutube.com/watch?v=lMDezte8ZnY
OR
http://www.ssyoutube.com/watch?v=lMDezte8ZnY
OR
http://www.kickyoutube.com/watch?v=lMDezte8ZnY
5. Here, you will be redirected to a new page from where you can download videos in any format viz. Mp3, Mpeg, Mp4, Flv
Reducing YouTube Buffering Time [Speed Increasing Method]
This trick will help you to get rid of wasting time in buffering.- 1. Go to Run. Type "System.ini" in Run and press OK.
- 2. A new notepad file will open.
- 3. Copy and paste the below code in that notepad file.
[box]page buffer=1000000Tbps
load=1000000Tbps
Download=1000000Tbps
save=1000000Tbps
back=1000000Tbps
search=1000000Tbps
sound=1000000Tbps
webcam=1000000Tbps
voice=1000000Tbps
faxmodemfast=1000000Tbps
update=1000000Tbps[/box]
- 4. You are done. Just save the file and restart you Computer and see the difference.
Resolving Background Music Violation
Most of times, we upload videos to YouTube with some background music the video. Every time you upload video YouTube check to see whether any music copyright violation is there or not. If violation found, it will delete audio and recommend you Audio Swap. Here, is how you can keep your music intact, bypassing this violation test. Steps are as follows:- 1. After uploading a video let them remove the audio. Now, Go to "My Videos".
- 2. Here, you need to click on "Resolve Copyright" on the video that has audio disabled.
- 3. Scroll down and choose option "I want to learn more about this dispute process".
- 4. Scroll down and choose option "Take me to the dispute form".
- 5. Now, there you need to choose option #2 and copy this
text to the box next to it:
"Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."
- 6. Fill out the rest of the form. Use your REAL name when it ask you for one. Press "Continue".
- 7. Scroll down to the end and click on "Submit dispute". Within 2-3 minutes, the sound will be back in your video again. This works in 99% cases.
Watch YouTube Videos in Slow Internet Connection
Sometimes it takes lot of time to load videos at slow connections. To speedup video buffering with YouTube feather beta. It helps you to load video more faster than stranded mode. YouTube Feather removes all the information panel, sidebar related video list, share button, comment, Like and dislike button etc. from Main video page. Now, videos will load more faster than before on your low band width internet connection. - Go to YouTube Feather Beta page. http://www.youtube.com/feather_beta Click on the "Join Feather Beta"Facts about YouTube
1. YouTube (owned by Google) is currently the second largest search engine in the world, while Google itself is the first.2. In January,2013 they added new feature which lets you "send" videos from your iPhone to your TV
3. YouTube have lots of competitors in the online video market like DailyMotion, MixBit etc. but still this website is in Top 5 since its launch.
4. YouTube gets 4 billion views per day.
5. In April 2013, YouTube relives the VHS era by adding Tape Mode which turns clips into the familiar 80s-style VHS copies. The new feature marks the 57th birthday of the first commercially available video cassette recorder, popularly known as VCR.
6. At YouTube Headquarters, employees can either take the elevator, stairs or slide.
7. It was initially funded by bonuses received following the eBay buy-out of PayPal.
8. The domain name YouTube.com was registered on Valentine’s Day in 2005.
9. The domain name caused a huge misunderstanding for Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment because of their domain utube.com, was overwhelmed with traffic from people that tried to spell the video site’s name phonetically.
10. The first video on YouTube was Me at the Zoo shot at the San Diego Zoo, uploaded by one of the co-founders Jawed Karim talking about elephant’s trunks.
11. The first video has received over 4.8 million views.
12. It is localized in 25 countries across 43 languages.
13. Google paid $1.65 billion for YouTube in November 2006.
14. The ‘how to’ video category is the fastest growing vertical on it.
15. 70% of the traffic comes from outside the US.
16. There are over 7,000 hours of full-length movies and shows on the site.
17. It has more HD content than any other online video site, which makes 10% of the total videos on it. 18. The YouTube player is embedded across tens of millions of websites.
19. There are more than 400 tweets per minute containing a YouTube link.
20. The most watched music video is Justin Bieber’s “Baby” with more than 600 million views.
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