Technology | YouTube YouTube Joins 1B-Users Club ...5 months after Facebook arrived at mark By Matt Cantor Posted Mar 21, 2013 4:26 AM CDT Copied Tara Levy, Global Marketing Director, Ads, for Google and YouTube, gives a presentation at Advertising Week on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012 in New York. (Photo by Jason DeCrow/Invision for Advertising Week/AP Images) Five months ago, Facebook announced it had reached a billion users per month—now, you can add YouTube to that exclusive club, Mashable reports. The video-sharing site announced the unique-visitors milestone on its blog, which notes that "nearly one out of every two people on the Internet visits YouTube," and "if YouTube were a country, we'd be the third largest in the world after China and India." When Google bought YouTube for $1.76 billion in 2006, it had 50 million users, Sky News notes. Read These Next RFK Jr. suggests antidepressants to blame after shooting. Details trickle out on 2 more victims of the Minneapolis shooting. The Air Force has changed its tune on Ashli Babbitt. Isolated tribe members show up in an unexpected place. Report an error