YouTube’s most watched video has 160 million views

YouTube turned five on February 14th, which I guess is about the same age as Charlie’s brother, whose finger was bitten in the most popular YouTube video of of all time with 160 million views.

YouTube now streams over a billion videos a day and is visited by roughly half of the world’s internet users. In the UK, 16.9 million or 43% of the UK internet population visited the site last month representing a 150% growth in three years, according to UKOM.

Alex Burmaster of Nielsen predicts that in the next five years, the nature of YouTube’s content will change:

“The past five years has seen YouTube grow into the world’s consciousness based on its first-mover advantage around consumer-generated content. The next five years will see YouTube become a commercial success based on how well it can infuse professional content in an increasingly cluttered competitive marketplace.”

“Charlie bit my finger-again!”