How Many Minutes Uploaded To Youtube A Minute

YouTube said it was attracting a staggering three billion views a day, a 50-percent increase over last year — The YouTube homepage appears on a screen in Washington in 2010. YouTube said Wednesday that 48 hours of video are being uploaded to the video-sharing site every minute, up from 35 hours per minute at the finish of last year.

YouTube said Wednesday that 48 hours of video are being uploaded to the video-sharing site every infinitesimal, up from 35 hours per minute at the terminate of final twelvemonth.

The Google-owned site, which was founded in May 2005, also said it was attracting a staggering three billion views a twenty-four hour period, a fifty-pct increment over last year.

"That'southward the equivalent of nearly one-half the world's population watching a YouTube video each day, or every U.s.a. resident watching at least nine videos a day," YouTube said in a web log post.

YouTube said the footage upload rate had grown from eight hours per minute in 2007 to the current 48 hours per minute.

Google bought YouTube in 2006 for $1.65 billion. The Mountain View, California-based Internet search and advertising giant has non yet appear a turn a profit for the site despite its massive global popularity.

YouTube has been gradually adding professional content such as full-length television shows and movies to its vast trove of apprentice video offerings in a bid to attract advertisers.

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