YouTube’s growth has been staggering over the last couple of years. Much of it thanks to the average Joe more than happy to upload the latest family video and YouTube partners who provide the website with regular programming including YouTube celebrities Shay Carl, or Shane Dawson. One statistic YouTube has been tracking to measure its growth is the number of hours of video uploaded every minute. In May 2009, the video website blew...

Since YouTube’s launch, the longest video you could upload was 10 minutes. No longer! Boing Boing reports that in the near future, that limit will rise to 15 minutes. Pro online video companies can already break the 10 minute limit, but this will open the door to anybody and everybody to upload longer videos. It’s good news for people breaking up longer content into multiple parts as well as people just creating longer...