YouTube a video sharing site with the tag line ‘Broadcast Yourself’ launched it’s Indian flavored site (http://www.youtube.co.in) on May 08, 2008. The main focus of the site will be the videos from India. India is the 20th country to have local flavor version of YouTube. Indian users on YouTube.com have grown at 2,00,000 per month over the last year, and currently, the site has about 50 lakh unique users from India.
YouTube India already has a few partners on board, who have created their channels on the site. The list of partners includes the ministry of tourism, the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), NDTV, Rajshri Media, Zoom, UTVi and Music Today.
YouTube India has also partnered with the IITs to make instructional video content available on the Net. Meant for engineering students, there are currently 1,600 hours of video content available on the IIT channel on the site.
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