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 most people away when it revealed the staggering statistic that 20 hours of video was uploaded to YouTube every minute. Of course, this wasn’t good enough for YouTube. They used the opportunity to submit a challenge to users to bump that amount up to 24 hours so that the website could finally say that a full day of video was uploaded every minute. Users met that challenge in March of this year, but clearly they weren’t done.
Only eight months later, YouTube now reports that it receives 35 hours of video uploaded every minute. The amount of video that adds up to be is mind blowing. To put it in perspective, YouTube states that if you assume a Hollywood film is two hours long then the amount of video the site receives is equivalent to 176,000 full-length releases every week.
The one example YouTube gives which I like the most is if all of the three major networks broadcasted video 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for the past 60 years is still wouldn’t equal the amount of video YouTube receives every 30 days. You know Google has to be loving their purchase of YouTube right now.
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