YouTube, which seems to be uncommitted in app form on scarce about everything scarcely a Windows Phone, now has 1 zillion unique periodic users. Photo: Wired “
YouTube, which seems to be available in app form on further about everything but a Windows Phone, now has 1 one thousand million unique monthly users. Photo: Wired “
YouTube is big. It is, by far, the most jutular drift to watch video on the internet. It’s a juggernaut. A behemoth. A massive morass of cute animal videos, Harlem shakers, one-hit-wonder pop songs, teen diaries, street violence, natural disasters, news clips, over-the-top publicizing and just about every other type of merriment that can exist on video.
And, on Thursday, YouTube announced that it has racked up 1 billion unique monthly users. About as many people use YouTube (which is owned by Google) as they do Facebook. That’s huge. Seriously huge. We won’t fault anyone over at Google+ if they’re feeling a little(a) jealous today.
YouTube announced that it hit the milestone in a blog post, adding that “nearly one out of every deuce people on the Internet visits YouTube.” The post went on to do more comparisons that can help us compute just how big of a deal this all is. “Our monthly viewership is the kindred of roughly ten Super Bowl audiences.”
If YouTube were a country, it’d be the third largest on earth, right behind mainland China and India, the company said. But YouTube isn’t a country. It’s a website, and an app found on Android, iOS, the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii U, and the occasional internet-connected TV or Blu-ray player. A bit more background: YouTube reached the 1 billion videos served mark back in 2009. The video sharing wait on is just 8 years old and the videos stored in YouTube digest in more than 505 million channels.
To celebrate YouTube’s important achievement in grabbing the attention of our eyeballs, here’s a video of sloths in a bucket — a face-to-face favorite of Wired staff writer Christina Bonnington.
Materials taken from WIRED
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