[opendtv] News: YouTube's 2 billion daily viewership beats primetime audience of top US TV networks
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- Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 07:50:18 -0400
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YouTube's 2 billion daily viewership beats primetime audience of top
US TV networks
* Submitted by Surjit Singh on Tue, 05/18/2010 - 06:45
Internet Technology Featured TNM YouTube
According to a Sunday announcement by Google, the viewership of its
May 2005-launched video sharing site YouTube currently exceeds more
than two billion viewers daily, which is apparently two times more
than the combined prime-time audience of all three leading US
television networks - ABC, CBS and NBC.
What is even more noteworthy about YouTube viewership is that the
site boasts viewers from all round the world, while the viewership of
the television networks is restricted to the US alone. In fact, the
enviable YouTube viewership figures explicitly hint that eventually
the Internet may become the leading video-delivery system in the
world.
The popularity of YouTube, which is currently blocked in China, has
resulted largely from the wide-ranging video content - both
informative and entertaining - that it has been hosting over the
years.
Meanwhile, some other YouTube-related statistics highlighted by
Google included - the uploading of more than 24 hours of video
footage to YouTube every minute; 15 minutes per day being spent on
the site by an average; and the site's live sports broadcast to over
200 countries.
To mark its fifth birthday celebrations, YouTube has launched the
YouTube FiveYear Channel, which includes the "My YouTube Story"
project in which YouTube users have been asked to upload videos
depicting the manner in which their lives have been impacted by the
site.
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