YouTube reports 4 billion video downloads
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012People of the Internet, you love your YouTube.
On an average day, you ticker 4 billion videos on YouTube. And the future day? You ticker 4 billion videos on YouTube. That’s a 25% increase over the act of daily video views only eight months ago, and it shows what sort of immense numbers we can see when a popular Web destination becomes eventide more popular.
It’s sort of amazing — and kind of frightening.
When it comes to how much video people are uploading to the site, the numbers are besides mind-boggling: YouTube reports that 60 hours of video is uploaded to the site every minute, compared with 48 hours eight months ago.
What’s behind this growth of activity? Reuters points away that parent society Google is pushing the video-sharing service beyond the personal computer, with versions of the site now compatible with smartphones and televisions. The company too has been making an try to induce more professional-grade substance on the site.
Does completely of this translate to money? Well, some of it does. But, Reuters reports, Google articulated alone nearly 3 billion videos a hebdomad are monetized.
