Friday, 22 March 2013
On its official blog, YouTube has announced that a whopping one billion people visit the video streaming service each month. That’s roughly one in every seven people on the planet.
On Its official blog, YouTube
says, “In the last eight years you’ve come to YouTube to watch, share
and fall in love with videos from all over the world. Tens of thousands
of partners have created channels that have found and built businesses
for passionate, engaged audiences. Advertisers have taken notice: all of
the Ad Age Top 100 brands are now running campaigns on YouTube. And
today, we’re announcing a new milestone: YouTube now has more than a
billion unique users every single month.”
In October of 2011, YouTube had 800
million visitors per month, meaning it has taken the service
approximately 17 months to reach the one billion mark. The social
networking website, Facebook, crossed the one billion user mark five
months ago.
Google owns YouTube. The video streaming
service started in 2005 and was purchased by Google in 2006 when the
service has a mere 50 million users worldwide. Today, YouTube is the go
to video content place, be it for music videos, TV shows, cat videos and
so much more video content. YouTube also has its own movie streaming
service. Of course, things are helped because creating and uploading
content on YouTube is as easy as creating a Gmail account.
