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!