<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/84ca390e-be30-4961-8156-18cfc797384a/08A2DA72-4C2E-40E1-8B9C-20EC4CD466A9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://mashable.com/2009/10/09/youtube-billion-views/" href="http://mashable.com/2009/10/09/youtube-billion-views/" style="font-size: 11px;">mashable.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2009/10/09/youtube-billion-views/"><P class="vcard"><STRONG class="dtreviewed">October 9th, 2009 | by <A title="Posts by Stan Schroeder" href="http://mashable.com/author/stan-schroeder/">Stan Schroeder</A></STRONG><SPAN class="comments"><A rel="comment" href="http://mashable.com/2009/10/09/youtube-billion-views/#comments"></A><NOSCRIPT>&lt;a href="http://mashable.disqus.com/?url=http://mashable.com/2009/10/09/youtube-billion-views/"&gt;View comments&lt;/a&gt;</NOSCRIPT><A wpid="151521" href="http://mashable.com/2009/10/09/youtube-billion-views/#disqus_thread" class="dsq-comment-count">19 Comments and 808 Reactions</A></SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2009/10/09/youtube-billion-views/"><P><IMG width="260" height="190" class="alignright size-full wp-image-151522 sharableItem" title="youtube_billion" alt="youtube_billion" src="http://ec.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/youtube_billion.jpg" ev_id="36" />When your website first reaches a million visitors, it’s a great milestone. However, one <STRONG>billion</STRONG> views per day can only be attained by the selected few, and <A href="http://youtube.com">YouTube</A> is now one of them. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2009/10/09/youtube-billion-views/"><P>According to the <A target="_blank" href="http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2009/10/y000000000utube.html">official blog</A>, <SPAN class="blippr-nobr">YouTube<SPAN class="blippr-nobr"><A class="blippr-inline-smiley blippr-inline-smiley-05" rel="http://www.blippr.com/apps/336658-YouTube.whtml" target="_blank" href="http://www.blippr.com/apps/336658-YouTube"><SPAN> (</SPAN><IMG alt="YouTube" src="http://static1.blippr.com/images/inline-face_05.png?1251418262" class="wp-smiley" ev_id="37" /><SPAN>)</SPAN></A></SPAN></SPAN> is serving “well over a billion views a day”. That’s at least 11,574 views per second, 694,444 views per minute, and 41,666,667 views per hour. Imagine the web server farm that can withstand that much traffic, and then remember that YouTube is just one of <SPAN class="blippr-nobr">Google’s<SPAN class="blippr-nobr"><A class="blippr-inline-smiley blippr-inline-smiley-07" rel="http://www.blippr.com/apps/336661-Google.whtml" target="_blank" href="http://www.blippr.com/apps/336661-Google"><SPAN> (</SPAN><IMG alt="Google" src="http://static1.blippr.com/images/inline-face_07.png?1251418262" class="wp-smiley" ev_id="38" /><SPAN>)</SPAN></A></SPAN></SPAN> many properties. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2009/10/09/youtube-billion-views/"><P>To celebrate the occasion, YouTube has a special logo today, accompanied with the text “1 billion views per day”. Yes, they’re bragging, but one has to admit they have a lot to brag about. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/08A2DA72-4C2E-40E1-8B9C-20EC4CD466A9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

New from the makers of Clipmarks:  Amplify.com - Don't just share the news...Amplify it!