On the same day as it celebrates its five year anniversary, YouTube is expanding its reach into its sixth continent: Africa.
While YouTube.com is available to almost anyone with an Internet connection, YouTube has localized content for 27 different countries on five different continents. However, while Germany, Australia, South Korea, Brazil and Mexico all have localized version of YouTube, no African country has had one, until today.
On its blog, the Google-owned video site announced that South Africa now has its own version of YouTube. This isn't just a technical launch, either: YouTube says that it is teaming up with South African broadcasters to fill the new version with locally produced content, as well as educational content from universities such as the Rhodes Journalism School.
South Africa, as one of Africa's most developed nations, was a logical choice for YouTube. It doesn't surprise us that it took the company five years to plant its African roots, but the expansion of new communication channels into the underdeveloped continent can only be a good thing.
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