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<strong>SAN FRANCISCO: More than a billion people use YouTube each month, with viewing on smartphones helping drive growth, the Google-owned online video sharing venue said Wednesday.</strong></div>
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In a blog post, the YouTube team noted that nearly one out of every two people on the Internet visits the website, which has grown into a global hit since launching in 2005.</div>
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''If YouTube were a country, we'd be the third largest in the world after China and India, '' the team said.</div>
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''PSY and Madonna would have to repeat their Madison Square Garden performance in front of a packed house 200,000 more times. That's a lot of Gangnam Style,, '' it added referring to the South Korean rapper and American pop singer.</div>
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Google bought YouTube in 2006 for $1.65 billion and has yet to disclose whether the service has turned a profit.</div>
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YouTube has gradually added professional content, such as full-length television shows and movies to its vast  trove of amateur video offerings in a bid to attract advertisers.</div>
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YouTube confirmed early this year that its evolution as an Internet stage for video may include subscriptions to content that creators expect people would pay to watch.</div>
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''We have long maintained that different content required different types of payment models '' a YouTube spokesman told.</div>
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''There are a lot of our content creators that think would benefit from subscriptions, so we're looking at that.''</div>
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SOURCE: AFP</div>
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SAN FRANCISCO: More than a billion people use YouTube each month, with viewing on smartphones helping drive growth, the Google-owned on...