About eight months ago, YouTube said that it was receiving more than 24 hours of video uploads every minute, so if you gave up on sleep and bathroom breaks and did nothing but watch YouTube all day/night, you still wouldn’t catch every new video. Fast forward to today and that number has jumped to 35 hours per minute, YouTube gloats in a blog post.
“That breaks out to 2,100 hours uploaded every 60 minutes, or 50,400 hours uploaded to YouTube every day,” YouTube points out. “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.”
In fact, YouTube video uploads have more than doubled in the last two years, to which the Google-owned site attributes to a variety of factors. One of those is the file size increase, while another driving force behind all those uploads is the proliferation of capable smartphones.
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