YouTube to lift 15-minute video length on videos

By Edwin Kee on 12/10/2010, filed in Home > Computers

YouTube currently has a 15-minute time length restriction that has been imposed on their videos, but it seems that is set to change. After all, a bunch of special content partners such as National Geographic and Lonelygirl15 have already broken that limit before, so it shouldn’t be a problem for regular Joes to have longer videos in the long run, eh? According to Joshua Siegel, a product manager at YouTube, he told The New York Times that the company now has copyright issues under control via ContentID, where it will scan around 100 years worth of uploaded video every single day in order to fend off violations. No idea on when the time limit will be lifted, so keep your fingers crossed that it will happen sooner rather than later.

Google: Google is an Internet Search company with profits mainly derived from its AdWords advertising program. Google is also known for other high-profile web-related products such as Chrome, GMail, Google Docs or Google Map, and it has also made a very successful entry into the mobile handset market with its Android mobile operating system. The company was created in 1998 and went public in 2004. Google is one of the most visited site in the world.

YouTube: is a video-sharing website where users can upload videos. It is currently (7/2012) the largest such site, and was founded in 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, who all worked at PayPal before. While it mainly featured movies from regular folks (and some illegal user uploads) at the beginning, but eventually YouTube grabbed enough market share to attract higher quality content over the years. Now, there is something for everyone, and YouTube continues to push for high-quality content, while keeping the support from amateur video-makers. The company was acquired by Google in 2006 for $1.6B.

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