YouTube Viewership On TV Screens Exceeds Mobile For First Time In U.S.

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Capping a years-long effort to emphasize the living room, YouTube said Tuesday that it now gets more of its total U.S. viewership on TV sets than on mobile devices.

U.S. viewers watch more than 1 billion hours in the U.S. counting both TVs and mobile, CEO Neal Mohan said. The exec expanded on those stats and offered several more in his annual letter to the YouTube community, posted on the eve of the Google-owned video giant’s 20th anniversary.

YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, and went live in December of that year. Google acquired it for $1.65 billion in stock in 2006. “In two decades, YouTube has transformed culture through video and built a thriving creative economy.

Today’s creators have moved from filming grainy videos of themselves on desktop computers to buildingstudios and producing popular talk shows and feature-length films,” Mohan wrote.