five years of youtube

May 19, 2010

YouTube exceeds two billion views a day

YouTube is celebrating exceeding two billion hits a day, five years after it launched in beta.To celebrate its fifth anniversary, the Google-owned site will launch a campaign in which users tell their personal stories of how YouTube has affected their lives, underlining its founding commitment to be a place where “anyone with a video camera and an internet connection can share a story with the world”.