A 5 Year Old with 5 billion daily visitors

You Tube is celebrating its fifth anniversary and it was reported that the site now received 5 billion hits a day.

Now, that’s what you call a popular birthday boy.

A mind boggling achievement that underlined its huge global popularity. As a measure of how popular it is, that number is nearly double the number of people who tune into the US’s three prime time TV stations combined, according to the site’s owner Google.

Google should be pleased as the number is 50 times higher than the 100 million daily hits that was on record when Google decided to buy YouTube in Oct 2006 for US$1.65 billion. This will not turn into a AOL-TimeWarner-like acquisition nor is it likely to burst into premature closure like the Google phone.

Technically, I believe the performance of YouTube is nothing short than amazing. Anyone who has tried to stream a video on internet will know how difficult it is to get a fast-smooth-good quality viewing experience. Once your video have more than 10 concurrent viewers – it’s even worse. Yet, with 5 billion viewers using the site – the video experience is consistently satisfactory. Considering our consistently reliable

broadband service, they are still good enough to watch.

Come to think of it, YouTube videos from across the Pacific Ocean is much easier to watch than the videos from local video streaming sites like Gua.com.my, TV3 etc. Why is that? Logically speaking, these local sites should be faster as they are within local network

and not burdened by international gateway bottleneck.

Anyway, here’s a big thank you for YouTube for changing the the web forever and for enabling us to Broadcast Yourself

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To finish, here are a few videos that are noteworthy to watch:

• Me at the zoo the first ever video uploaded to YouTube on April 2005 by its co-founder Jawed Karim.
• Susan Boyle the audition for Britain Got Talent that has been watched 92 million times. p.s. Watch Simon Cowell at 1:51 and then his cheeky remark at 5:29
• Obama’s You Tube interview Barack Obama, then a U.S. Senator and Democratic presidential candidate, answer questions from YouTube in 2007.
• Lady Gaga: Bad Romance the most watched video on YouTube
• Charlie bit my finger

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