Google’s YouTube Now Enjoys 2 Billion Downloads Daily!
YouTube, the place fro cat videos to political videos to ‘how to’ vidoes, now gets more than two billion hits daily. According to Google, the sites owner, that is nearly double the number of people who tune into the US’s three prime time TV networks combined.
This comes as YouTube celebrates the five year anniversary when the first beta version was launched.
“I see this great growth opportunity in the online video market and we are positioning ourselves to be a leader,” co-founder Chad Hurley said. “We are a stage and we give everyone in the world an opportunity to participate and that is being a video platform for creating a solution for people to not only upload and distribute their videos on a global basis but to find and share videos.”
Even though the two billion video streams appears to be a very large number, the average person only spends 15 minutes a day on the site as compared to five hours watching conventional TV.
The site was bought by Google near the end of 2006 for $1.65bn. Just seven months ago it clocked up one billion downloads a day.
