Last week, on Valentines Day, YouTube celebrated its 9th birthday. Launched on February 14th, 2005, YouTube has skyrocketed to be the biggest, most popular video sharing site in the world. With parent company Google, YouTube is a massive part of many people’s daily lives. Before YouTube, in order for something to go viral it probably meant a flu epidemic, now it can be a cat video or a drugged up kid fresh from the dentist. I can’t imagine a time before YouTube, it has become such a phenom, so happy birthday YouTube.
- 60 hours of video are uploaded every minute, or one hour of video is uploaded to YouTube every second.
- Over 4 billion videos are viewed a day
- Over 800 million unique users visit YouTube each month
- Over 3 billion hours of video are watched each month on YouTube
- More video is uploaded to YouTube in one month than the 3 major US networks created in 60 years
- 70% of YouTube traffic comes from outside the US
- YouTube is localized in 39 countries and across 54 languages
- In 2011, YouTube had more than 1 trillion views
- In 2011 there were almost 140 views for every person on Earth
- Created in 2007, the YouTube partner program now has 30,000+ partners from 27 countries around the world
- YouTube pays out millions of dollars a year to partners
- Hundreds of partners are making six figures a year
- Partner revenue has more than doubled for four years in a row
- YouTube is monetizing over 3 billion video views per week globally
- 98 of AdAge’s Top 100 advertisers have run campaigns on YouTube and the Google Display Network
- Hundreds of advertisers are using TrueView in-stream and 60% of our in-stream ads are now skippable
- YouTube has more HD content than any other online video site
- There are thousands of full-length movies on YouTube
- 10% of YouTube’s videos are available in HD
- YouTube mobile gets over 600 million views a day
- Traffic from mobile devices tripled in 2011
- The YouTube player is embedded across tens of millions of websites
Wow. Six figures. I gotta get me some of that.
SvaraRaderayea... its quite amazing how they have grown that large this quickly!
Radera