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Holy Nyans! 60 hours per minute and 4 billion views a day on YouTube
Monday, January 23, 2012
Update: Corrected percentage increases.
Since the dawn of YouTube, we’ve been sharing the hours of video you upload every minute. In 2007 we started at
six hours
, then in 2010 we were at
24 hours
,
then 35
,
then 48
, and now...60 hours of video every minute, an increase of more than 25 percent in the last eight months. In other words,
you’re uploading one hour of video to YouTube every second
. Tick, tock, tick, tock — that’s 4 hours right there!
In the past we’ve made
charts
and
infographics
to describe the kind of mind-boggling engagement you’re driving, and this time we let our dataheads run wild. They came back to us with
onehourpersecond.com
— an interactive collection of what happens in a YouTube second. Here’s a sample:
For all the hours of video you’re uploading—you’re watching more as well; we’ve now exceeded
four billion video views globally every day
. That’s up 30 percent in the last eight months and the equivalent of more than half the world’s population watching a video every day, the same number as there are US $1 bills in
circulation
, the same as number of years since there was water on
Mars
...it’s a big number, and you’re making it bigger every day.
With more
original Channels
rolling out this year, a new
homepage
to help you find and follow Channels you love, and new
tools
for creators always on the horizon, we’re excited to see how many times you’ll grow these numbers this year!
The YouTube Team recently watched “
The Joy of Books
.”
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