The popularity of
YouTube continues to grow at a staggering rate. According to the
latest statistics Hitwise , in July 2006, traffic from this service has already exceeded 100 million videos per day. This is about 60% of all video traffic in the US segment of the Internet (not counting file-sharing networks, of course).
In June 2006, YouTube servers “shipped” 2.5 billion videos. Every day about 65 thousand new video clips are uploaded to the site, which is 15 thousand more than a month earlier. The unique monthly audience approached 20 million people.
Thus, the recently appeared YouTube site has already managed to occupy a leading position in the online video market and controls 29% of the entire American online entertainment market.