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YouTube now at 1 billion monthly users

Written by Andre Yoskowitz @ 21 Mar 2013 1:13 User comments (3)

YouTube now at 1 billion monthly users Behemoth video sharing site YouTube has now reached 1 billion unique monthly users.
The number is extremely significant given that there are just under 7 billion humans on Earth.

Says Google:

What does a billion people tuning into YouTube look like?
-Nearly one out of every two people on the Internet visits YouTube.
-Our monthly viewership is the equivalent of roughly ten Super Bowl audiences.
-If YouTube were a country, we'd be the third largest in the world after China and India.
-PSY and Madonna would have to repeat their Madison Square Garden performance in front of a packed house 200,000 more times. That's a lot of Gangnam Style!


YouTube now joins an elite club started by Facebook last year.

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3 user comments

123.3.2013 16:31

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there are just under 7 billion humans on Earth.
How the hell does anyone know. Does the earth periodically go "ah dame there's another thousand, time to shake a little."
This message has been edited since its posting. Latest edit was made on 23 Mar 2013 @ 4:33

226.3.2013 03:20

There's never A Thing wrong with You Tube, less ads than TV,Plus an
item only repeats if you choose it to.

326.3.2013 12:21

YouTube is phenomenal.


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