Google’s video sharing site YouTube is currently receiving more than 1 billion unique users on a regular basis every month. On the YouTube blog The company has revealed this information in a published post. Google has also mentioned the role of increasing smartphone usage behind the progress of the service.

The news of the increase in YouTube visitors not only highlights the popularity of the Google-service, but also reveals the huge advertising market hidden in it. YouTube, the search service provider that is currently making huge profits from AdSense and AdWords, may soon emerge as another such sector. Although ads are already appearing on the video site.

YouTube was launched in California in 2005 by three former PayPal executives, and was acquired by Google in 2006 for 1.6 billion. The site was thought to have 30-40 million users worldwide at the time.

According to many, with one billion visitors every month, YouTube has challenged the social networking site Facebook. As you may know, Facebook reached the milestone of 1 billion users in October last year. Of course, almost in between 63 million The profile is fake.

Google claims that on average, one out of every two Internet users visits YouTube. The search service provider added that if the site were a country, it would be the third most populous country in the world after China and India.