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YouTube Updates App For Apple TV

Over a billion unique visitors check out YouTube every month and watch over 6 billion hours of video. This makes it the leading source of internet traffic around the globe. What’s more is that TV box sets such as Apple TV are also surging in popularity. Research group Parks Associates predicts sales of TV boxes will continue to grow and top 57 million worldwide by 2018. That number is triple the 20 million last year.

From the article "YouTube Updates App For Apple TV" by Anna Peel.

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