Back in September of last year, YouTube increased the maximum size of video uploads tenfold, from 100MB to 1GB. In the past 24 hours, it appears that they’ve at least doubled it, from 1GB to 2GB. Despite the size increase, the maximum length of a video remains 10 minutes.
Barry Schwartz, who appears to have first noticed the change, reports that he’s seeing a 20GB limit on one of his YouTube accounts. That seems unlikely to be the case across all of YouTube, but as of yet, there’s no official word from the company on the change. My account shows the 2GB limit:
In any event, even just increasing to 2GB should make it significantly easier for video publishers to get their longer, HD videos onto the site.
What size limit are you seeing in your YouTube account? Let us know in the comments.