YouTube said on May 25 that 48 hours of video are being uploaded to the video-sharing site every minute, up from 35 hours per minute at the end of last year. The Google-owned site, which was founded in May 2005, also said it was attracting a staggering three billion views a day, a 50-percent increase over last year.
"That's the equivalent of nearly half the world's population watching a YouTube video each day, or every US resident watching at least nine videos a day," YouTube said in a blog post. YouTube said the footage upload rate had grown from eight hours per minute in 2007 to the current 48 hours per minute. YouTube has been gradually adding professional content such as full-length television shows and movies to its vast trove of amateur video offerings in a bid to attract advertisers.
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