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 Her blood isn't compatible with anyone else's. Iran's supreme leader makes first public comments since ceasefire. New Fox star, 23, misses first day after car troubles. Rubio says the fate of Iran's conversion facility is what matters. Report an error