If you think that your website or blog is croaking under the amount of traffic that you’re getting, think again. YouTube, a site that can suck hours off your life without you realizing it, actually experiences up to 60 hours of videos being uploaded – not each hour, but rather, each minute. When you think about it, that is 6 hours per second – mind numbing figures, what say you? When you compare that figure to the ones from 2007 (which is just 5 years ago, mind you), it is a 10-fold growth. YouTube hit 24 hours of video uploaded per minute in early 2010, touching 35 hours in November 2010, before arriving at where it is today.
In addition to that, trivia buffs would be pleased to know that YouTube users go through 4 billion video views each day, and that is 25% more compared to statistics pulled from May last year. To get a handle of things, YouTube statisticians claim that the video site clocked more than 1 trillion playbacks in 2011 alone, and if you average that out with each person on earth regardless of whether they have an Internet connection or not, that amounts to roughly 140 views per head. Just how much larger will YouTube grow?
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