{"id":566635,"date":"2010-05-17T11:22:55","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T15:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newteevee.com\/?p=48715"},"modified":"2010-05-17T11:22:55","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T15:22:55","slug":"youtube-tops-2b-views-a-day-5-years-after-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/566635","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Tops 2B Views a Day, 5 Years After Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"

YouTube has been doing a lot of celebrating lately — of the 5-year anniversary of the purchase of its URL<\/a> back in February, then in April, of the first video uploaded to the site<\/a>. Now the online video site is celebrating the launch of its first beta version<\/a> in May 2005 with the announcement of some significant milestones.<\/p>\n

YouTube streams more than 2 billion videos a day, with a full day’s worth of video — 24 hours — uploaded to the site every minute, according to a post on the YouTube blog<\/a> today. Meanwhile, its partner ad revenue tripled last year<\/a>, and it now monetizes over a billion video streams per week worldwide.<\/p>\n

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All that momentum has gotten YouTube (finally!) on the brink of profitability, with analysts saying they expect the site to actually make money for the first<\/a> time in 2010. According to research from Citi earlier this year, YouTube is expected to pull in about $945 million in 2010, with revenues forecast at $1.1 billion<\/a> next year. That’s not bad for a video site that just a few years ago was best known for stupid pet tricks and pirated video<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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To celebrate the five-year milestone, YouTube launched a page<\/a> featuring some of its most successful and recognizable contributors — like Tay Zonday<\/a> and Ryan Higa<\/a> — talking about their YouTube experience during the first five years of the site’s existence. YouTube is also asking its users to upload their own videos<\/a> about how YouTube has affected their lives.<\/p>\n

Related content on GigaOM Pro:<\/strong> TV Apps: From Novelty to Mainstream<\/a> (subscription required)<\/p>\n

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