YouTube now gets over a billion hits a day, according to a new video blog post by the founder¹ of the website.

YouTube创始人发布的一段新视频显示，YouTube一天的浏览量超过10亿。

Tony Blair launched Downing Street's official YouTube channel in 2007.

Chad Hurley's blog marks the third anniversary of YouTube's controversial acquisition（获得，所获之物） by Google.

The site was bought by Google in 2006 for $1.65bn - a price it later described as "a premium²".

Earlier this year YouTube was at the centre of a content row over the amount of royalties³ it paid to musicians for hosting music videos.

Six months later the dispute was resolved when Google agreed to pay UK royalty⁴ collecting body PRS for Music an undisclosed lump sum（总数）.

Music videos reappeared for British YouTube visitors in September.

Mr Hurley co-founded the website in 2004 with Steve Chen and Jawed⁵ Karim.

They met while employees at online pay service PayPal.

"We wanted to create a place where anyone with a video camera, a computer, and an internet connection can share their life, art, and voice with the world, and in many cases they can make a living from doing so," Mr Hurley said, reflecting on YouTube's original aims.