The news comes as the site celebrates the day five years ago when the first beta version of YouTube was launched.More info at BBC News.
Over seven months ago the video site clocked up one billion downloads.
"I see this great growth opportunity in the online video market and we are positioning ourselves to be a leader," co-founder Chad Hurley told BBC News.
"We are a stage and we give everyone in the world an opportunity to participate and that is being a video platform for creating a solution for people to not only upload and distribute their videos on a global basis but to find and share videos."
YouTube hits 2 billion views per day
Posted on Tuesday, May 18 2010 @ 5:23 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck