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Yes, it’s almost mind boggling to think about, but YouTube turns 5 this year and today have announced that they are now averaging over 2billion video views per day. This is quite staggering really. The technical infrastructure to cope with that must be immense.

They say on average everyone watches 10mins of YouTube per day. That there are over 24hours worth of Video footage uploaded to Youtube every minute. 

I remember when Google bought YouTube for over 1billion back in 2006, but today looking back it surprises me that it was only just over a year old. Well done YouTube!

Here are some more key facts from its 5 years timeline: