U.S. viewers watch more than 1 billion hours in the U.S. counting both TVs and mobile, CEONeal Mohansaid.
YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, and went live in December of that year.
Google acquired it for $1.65 billion in stock in 2006.
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan at the company’s 2023 “Brandcast” eventKevin Mazur/Getty Images for YouTube
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YouTube has spent the past two years as the No.
1 platform in terms of U.S. market share in Nielsens monthly Gauge report, Mohan noted.
But the new television doesnt look like the old television, he observed.
AI is helping drive advancements in a few areas, Mohan said, including reckoning with language differences.
Some stats were mentioned by Mohan but had been previously released.
He noted that 45 million users watched political content on Election Day.
