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YouTube says 1 billion people visit its site each month

 
Published on Mar 21, 2013
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Audition video for Ms Nurul Mardhiah Abdul Wahid, 26, a medical technology specialist with the National Heart Centre (NHC), posted on YouTube. YouTube has disclosed that more than one billion people are now visiting its online video site each month to watch everything from clips of cute kittens to scenes of social unrest around the world. -- FILE PHOTO: NURUL MARDHIAH ABDUL WAHID

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - YouTube has disclosed that more than 1 billion people are now visiting its online video site each month to watch everything from clips of cute kittens to scenes of social unrest around the world.

The milestone announced on Wednesday marks another step in YouTube's evolution from a quirky start-up launched in 2005 to one of the most influential forces in today's media landscape.

YouTube crossed the 1 billion threshold five months after Facebook said its online social network had reached that figure. The vast audience has given YouTube's owner, Google, another lucrative channel for selling online ads beyond its dominant Internet search engine.

Google bought YouTube for US$1.76 billion (S$2.22 billion) in 2006, when the video site had an estimated 50 million users worldwide.
 
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