YouTube is growing stronger every day. Which just shows how the balance of power has shifted over the last few years. At some point we’re not actually going to need TV as we now know it.
YouTube Milestones
The Google-owned YouTube is celebrating hitting new milestones. And the statistics being touted are pretty spectacular.
YouTube videos are now viewed 4 billion times every day. To put that into context that’s the equivalent of more than half the world’s population watching one video on YouTube on a daily basis. And it’s an increase of 25 percent in the last eight months.
Also up massively are the number of uploads, with 60 hours of video added to YouTube every minute. In other words, one hour of video every second. Eight months ago, in May 2011, it was 48 hours uploaded every minute.
YouTube has helpfully created its own video (and site) showing what these numbers mean in real terms.

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