YouTube has surpassed the one billion users per month mark.
The website announced the feat on their blog on Wednesday.
“In the last eight years you’ve come to YouTube to watch, share and fall in love with videos from all over the world,” YouTube wrote. “Tens of thousands of partners have created channels that have found and built businesses for passionate, engaged audience.”
The company, owned by Google, also hosted a large event in Santa Monica on Wednesday, announcing the milestone. YouTube is hot on the tail of Facebook Inc., which announced that it reached one billion unique visitors in October 2012.
The blogpost also mentions some impressive stats about just how much traffic the site gets. How many Internet users is a billion? As it turns out, a lot:
-Nearly one out of every two people on the Internet visits YouTube.
-Our monthly viewership is the equivalent of roughly ten Super Bowl audiences.
-If YouTube were a country, we’d be the third largest in the world after China and India.
-PSY and Madonna would have to repeat their Madison Square Garden performance in front of a packed house 200,000 more times. That’s a lot of Gangnam Style!
The way we watch videos has changed rapidly in the eight years that YouTube has been around. The home to the world’s videos (and all the world’s videos ripped and stolen from other people) has completely upended payment models for TV and film, as well as causing a massive paradigm shift for how we find music.
“From the aspiring filmmaker in his basement and the next great pop musician, to the fans all around the world who tune in, subscribe and share their favorite videos with the planet, thank you for making YouTube what it is today,” the team wrote. “You have truly created something special.”
