YouTube Reaches One Billion Daily Views

YouTube Reaches One Billion Daily Views

YouTube has announced it has reached the one billionth mark in its number of views made everyday.
 

The site's CEO and founder Chad Hurley said getting such numbers prove to be a huge achievement. 

 

"Three years ago today [YouTube co-founder] Steve [Chen] and I stood in front of our offices and jokingly crowned ourselves the 'burger kings' of media," Hurley posted in a blog.

 

"We'd just made headlines by joining with Google in our shared goal of organising the world's information (in our case video) and making it easily and quickly accessible to anyone, anywhere."

 

"Today I'm proud to say that we have been serving well over a billion views a day on YouTube. This is great moment in our short history and we owe it all to you."

 

Hurley attributes YouTube's success is its ability to load and play quicly and be hosted on an open platform.

 

"We wanted to create a place where anyone with a video camera, a computer and an internet connection can share their life, art and voice with the world, and in many cases they can make a living from doing so," Hurley said.

 

"There are now more ways than ever to make and consume content, and more of you are looking to turn your hobby into a real business. We're working hard to keep up with the fast pace of technology to bring you everything you would expect from the world's largest video site."