A 18 second video at the zoo by the YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim was the first ever video that was uploaded and it also happens to be the only video on Karim’s channel. It now has over 90 million views.
It was a year later that YouTube was sold to Google for $1.65 billion and it has over one billion hours of content watched daily according to Google.
Source : https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/04/23/tech/youtube-first-video-jawed-karim-trnd/index.html