YouTube Is Huge: 24 Hours of Video Now Uploaded Every Minute

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Ben Parr
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YouTube Is Huge: 24 Hours of Video Now Uploaded Every Minute

YouTube has just announced that it has surpassed yet another milestone, and this one's a doozy: 24 hours of video is now uploaded to the social video site every sixty seconds. Every second you are browsing YouTube, a full 24 minutes of video is uploaded to the site.

On May 20, 2009, YouTube announced that its users were uploading 20 hours of video per minute. That means in a 10-month time frame, YouTube uploading has increased by more than 17%. The feat's incredibly impressive by almost any standard. More than two million minutes of video (or 34,560 hours) is now uploaded onto YouTube per day.

The Google-owned video site even provided a graph depicting its growth:

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