YouTube celebrates 20 years with new features, cool tricks, and some truly mind-blowing stats

Screenshot by Aly Windsor/ZDNet/YouTube We've come a long way since that day at the zoo. 20 years ago today, YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim uploaded the first video to YouTube. Less than 20 seconds long, it showed Karim standing in front of elephants and explaining that they have really long trunks. Also: YouTube launches cheaper Premium Lite plan - but are the trade-offs worth it? Two decades later, the video sharing platform is a different place. Since then, users have uploaded more than 20 trillion videos to the site, YouTube says, including YouTube Music. Doing some quick math, that works out to about 2,500 videos for every single person on the planet. Around 20 million videos are uploaded daily, and there are 100 million comments and 3.5 billion likes on the average day. New features on the way YouTube isn't just showing off, though. The company is rolling out a few new features to celebrate, both on traditional YouTube and on YouTube TV. YouTube TV will soon let users bui ... Read full article.