YouTube Hits 1 Billion Views

Thanks in no small part to Keyboard Cat and other obsessively watched viral videos, YouTube is now bringing in 1 billion views per day, no doubt to the chagrin of struggling Web sites everywhere. The Google-owned site immediately advertised the benchmark with a McDonald's-esque "1 Billion Views Per Day!" tagline on its logo and a gushing post on the official YouTube blog chronicling its history in the world of online video.