The growing popularity of YouTube could be gauged from the fact that one billion people visit it every month. With this it has joined the exclusive club with Facebook and has come closer to India’s population. Even China is not far behind.

"If YouTube were a country, we'd be the third largest in the world after China and India," the team said.

"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," it added referring to the South Korean rapper and American pop singer.

“Advertisers have taken notice. All of the Ad Age Top 100 brands are now running campaigns on YouTube. YouTube now has more than a billion unique users every single month,” the YouTube team has said.

Here are some dazzling figures released by YouTube. There are Content ID scans over 100 years of video every day with  more than 3,000 partners using Content ID, including every major US network broadcaster, movie studio and record label

It has more than eight million reference files (over 500,000 hours of material) in our Content ID database; it's among the most comprehensive in the world. The number has doubled in the last year. Over a third of YouTube's total monetized views come from Content ID while more than 200 million videos have been claimed by Content ID

YouTube was founded in February 2005 and has become the go-to site for video on the web. One hour of video is uploaded to YouTube every second. Google bought YouTube in 2006 and underwent a significant redesign in 2011. The revamped YouTube emphasized "channels" for content and rolled out a bevy of new features. It is localized in 53 countries and across 61 languages

It said that 72 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute with 70% of YouTube traffic comes from outside the US

YouTube had more than 1 trillion views or around 140 views for every person on Earth

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