Summary: If YouTube were a country, it would be the third largest in the world. I’ll explain after this. It’s the DailyCast from ESLnewscast.com. Welcome! I’m Cory Renzella, and thank you for listening today. The popular video sharing website, YouTube, made a big announcement last month. It said that it now has one billion monthly users. In other words, every month, one billion people in the world visit its website. About two billion people in the world use the internet, so that means about half of them regularly go to YouTube. And as I said at the beginning, if YouTube were a country, only China and India would have larger populations. That’s not bad for a website that has only existed, or been around, for eight years. YouTube was founded, or created, in 2005, and then it was acquired, or bought, by Google in 2006, for about US$1.8 billion. At that time, YouTube had around 30-40 million users. Not bad; but now, it also has governments, businesses, and a lot of individuals posting and sharing lots of videos. YouTube is useful for sharing news, opinions, funny videos, and completely random ones. And oh yeah, how could I forget about the cute cat videos? There are plenty of cute cat videos on YouTube! But of all the videos on YouTube, do you know which one has been watched the most? I’ll give you a hint: it’s from South Korea. If you guessed the music video Gangnam Style, you’re correct! It’s been watched one and a half billion times on YouTube, including a few times by me. Since people share things and interact on YouTube, that means it’s a social network. And since it has a billion monthly users, it’s almost as popular as the largest social network in the world. That one, of course, is Facebook. ~~~~~~~~~~ So, do you visit YouTube a lot? I do almost every day. I like watching music videos on it, and as I said, I have to admit that I’ve watched Gangnam Style a few times…Okay, maybe more than a few times. But to be honest, I don’t really care too much about watching cute cat videos! What do you enjoy watching on YouTube? Have you seen Gangnam Style? Do you like the cute cat videos, and do you have a favorite video on that website? Have you ever shared any of your own videos? If so, share your opinions and tell us your thoughts at ESLnewscast.com. And feel free to link to any YouTube videos that you think we might also like! That’s it for today. ESLnewscast.com is “Your English Window to the World”, and wherever you are in the world, I hope you have a good day. Thanks for listening, and I’ll talk to you again tomorrow. Bye-bye.
