YouTube within a year was serving 100 million daily video views.

Evidence

Within a year, the company reported that it was serving 100 million daily video views and accepting uploads of some 65,000 new videos. Thus YouTube became the Internet’s first successful challenge to what television offered. — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 913

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