13 Hours of content uploaded to Youtube every minute

A professional friend of mine, connected to Youtube, told me an interesting fact the other day regarding the video sharing behemoth. T'was quite simply:

On average 13 Hours of content is uploaded to Youtube every single minute of the day.

An absolutely amazing statistic on so many levels. How many of those videos are created and viewed by almost nobody? Who are the people uploading all of this content? How can this amount of data, an amount tht will surely continue to rise over the coming years, possibly be sustainable by Youtube?

What's even more remarkable is the fact that any videos that go onto the site are able to make any kind of significant impact at all. Let's say the average Youtube video is 3 minutes long - then let's try and work out how many videos are uploaded to Youtube every minute, hour and day:

• That roughly 260 videos are uploaded a minute.
• That 15,600 videos are uploaded an hour.
  
• That 374,400 videos are uploaded a day.

So as a rough guess these numbers provide us with a ball park figure for the amount uploaded to Youtube.


Oh and in case you were wondering...

• A year we're looking at 136,656,000 videos uploaded. (Imagine if everyone gave a dollar when they uploaded, wonder if Google have thought of that?)
  

Wow!

Gordon Brown's been panned

So Gordon has been panned by the press today. Think it's safe to say he's on the way out.

Obama is ahead in the US. My money is still on McCain though. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to have a fresh, forward thinking President - just don't think America is ready for it quite yet.

Working on a few projects at the moment, will inform you if/when they come off.

3 Places classical music should be played

Had a conversation today about the fact that they play classical music in certain tube stations. The person I was talking to claimed that the reason for doing so was to deter youths from creating mayhem, beating people up and generally being naughty little buggers. When I got home I obviously googled it and low and behold, as plain as day, the BBC has an article about it from 1995.

It say's:

Psychologists who have researched the link between music and behaviour say unfamiliarity is key to its success.

So that got me thinking, where would be the best places to have classical music playing (here's the first three):

• Public Toilets - Ever had a dump whilst listening to Beethoven? Try it.
• Space - Ignore the fact that you would never be able to hear it without imploding, it just feels right.
• Catching Infidelity - Imagine the moment, you walk in, the postman's bottom going a million miles an hour, everything stops... The classical music starts.

I'm off to watch Chelsea beat Bordeaux. Cheeky bet on Chelsea to win 3-0.

Ryan Dean Reverie

The thoughts and musings of an inspiring future leader - of what I am not sure - and in the posts that will follow I shall update those who care to read of the things I am making and the thoughts I am having.

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