YouTube Redesigns Mobile Site: Touch Friendliness and Google-Controlled Ads

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YouTube gets around 100 million visitors per day via mobile, which impressively enough is about the same number of visitors the full-fledged desktop site was getting when YouTube was acquired by Google back in 2006. But most of those 100 million visitors are using the YouTube iPhone app, rather than YouTube's own mobile site.

That's a problem for Google--on their own site, they can completely control the experience, including ad revenue, while they have to compete with