With Daily Views At 2 Billion, Youtube Unveils New Plans

Youtube, the web video site, is celebrating it's 5th birthday. The website has seen tremendous success, which includes being purchased by Google for $1.65 billion in November 2006.

The website sees over 2 billion page view per day. It's content is viewed by over 200 countries.

Youtube has unveiled new plans that will help to make the site even more of a success. For one, it plans on improving it's search functionality to make it easier for web users to find videos based on text searches and filters. The goal is to lengthen the average time a user spends on it's website, which is currently 15 minutes. They want to steal the show from traditional television. For it's five year birthday, the website is launching a game-type format campaign YouTube Five Year Channel, which will offer a large audience to users who submit their "My YouTube Story."

Tablet devices and web-connected televisions are expected to give Youtube a big boost is viewership.