YouTube – Hits 4 Billion Views a Day
- How many videos do you watch in a week?
- How many times have you gone to youtube to watch 1 video and ended up watching 7?
Google confirmed that YouTube is now averaging 4 BILLION views per day. They also confirmed that 60 hours of video is uploaded into the site, every MINUTE.
Back in 2010 we were awed that YouTube hit 2 billion views per day, bringing up many discussions about whether YouTube was helping or hurting our culture as a whole.
Then Back in May 2011, a mere 8 months ago, YouTube celebrate it’s 6th birthday by citing YouTube is averaging 3 billion views per day and 48 hours of video uploaded per minute. Incredible. At the time, YouTube cited this is equivalent of every US Resident watching at least 9 videos per day. That is EVERY US RESIDENT. That means if some guy without internet is not watching a video, someone is watching 18 times. But now at 4 Billion Views, YouTube has seen a 50% increase in views in about less than a year. At this rate, they would probably hit 5 billion within 6 months.
Is there a ceiling to this?
How many videos can one person possibly watch in a day?
That is an insane about of videos. We really need a resurgent of hobbies or find some meaningful work! Anyone have any good stories of replacing mundane video watching with something productive?
Ironically having said that, below is a YouTube video highlighting this latest milestone. HA! Add another view to that figure.
Confession Time
So a little confession time. Let us know below in the comments & poll:
- How many videos do you think you watch a week?
- How many times have you gone to youtube to watch 1 video and ended up watching 7?
Don’t leave out those outliers where you watched 25 videos with your two friends around the couch!
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4 Comments
This is a cool post. I took the vote and am surprised with the results.
Wow that sounds crazy. I watch a few videos a day. And I feel that is alot.
It is astounding 4 billion views per day but this has been on the cards for quite some time considering that the world is ever becoming more online orientated. I think another rason for this is that youtube has a dominant position, other providers like vimeo and dailymotion cant even scratch its surface. It wont be long now before youtbe does deals with TV companies to stream their shows exclusively!
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