Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube, said that the number of users of Google's video-sharing platform has reached more than 2 billion unique users per month worldwide, which means an increase of 200 million users in the last quarter.
The new figure is up nearly 5 percent from the previous figure of 1.8 billion monthly users in the fourth quarter, and the platform has reached more than 2 billion viewers a month, despite scandals about inappropriate and harmful content.
The announcement came directly after Google's parent company, Alphabet, which also owns YouTube, fell after revenue growth slowed. "The slowdown in clicks within YouTube, the main engine of advertising revenue, was partly because of this," said Alfabet's chief financial officer.
Last year, YouTube suffered a setback by withdrawing many of the giant brands of its ads from the podium because those ads appeared alongside malicious videos and faced constant pressure from advertisers to tighten regulations so as not to appear to promote offensive content.
The YouTube platform continues efforts to combat the conspiracy theory videos posted and promoted on the site, and the platform was heavily scrutinized amid public concerns that it does not effectively control videos containing malicious content posted on the site.
In addition to being a source of entertainment, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, described YouTube as an educational hub. "Users come not only to YouTube for entertainment, but to find information, learn about things, and discover research," he said.
YouTube continues to enhance its presence in the living room at a very fast pace. Watching the platform on television was more than 250 million hours a day from March 2019, according to the company.
This represents a 39 percent increase in less than a year, especially as it excludes watch numbers on YouTube TV, Google's paid online service.
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