YouTube users add 35 hours of video every minute

YouTube says that 35 hours of video are being uploaded to the video-sharing site every minute, up from 24 hours per minute in March.


«That breaks out to 2,100 hours uploaded every 60 minutes, or 50,400 hours uploaded to YouTube every day. If we were to measure that in movie terms (assuming the average Hollywood film is around 120 minutes long), 35 hours a minute is the equivalent of over 176,000 full-length Hollywood releases every week. Another way to think about it is: if three of the major US networks were broadcasting 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year for the last 60 years, they still wouldn't have broadcast as much content as is uploaded to YouTube every 30 days,» explains YouTube.

Here are some of the factors contributing to the growth:
• The time limit for videos uploaded by users increased by 50 percent from 10 to 15 minutes.
• The upload file size increased over the last few years by more than 10x to 2GB via the site's standard uploader.
• Mobile phones have improved dramatically in how quickly and easily they upload videos to YouTube.
• More companies are integrating YouTube APIs to support uploading from outside of the website (Call of Duty: Black Ops, for example, allows gamers to record and share video footage from within the game).