I wanted to say that YouTube was acquired early in its history and would probably be worth much more today, but after looking into it, the data doesn't necessar

I wanted to say that YouTube was acquired early in its history and would probably be worth much more today, but after looking into it, the data doesn't necessarily back that up. In July 2006 a few months before YT's acquisition, YT users were viewing 3 billion videos a month[1], and in 2010 it had "only" quadrupled to about 14 billion views a month[2]. This suggests in 2006 YouTube had already mostly caught on. So you may be onto something. [1] http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-07-16-youtube-views_x.htm http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-07-16-youtube-... [2] http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Press_Releases/2010/6/comScore_Releases_May_2010_U.S._Online_Video_Rankings http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Press_Releases/2010/6/comSc...