Posted by: Meg Archer, Marketing Coordinator
It’s no surprise that YouTube continues to be the leading online video site in the U.S., but what is surprising is the rate at which users are posting content. Currently, 20 hours of video are being uploaded to YouTube every minute! That is equivalent to Hollywood releasing over 86,000 new full-length movies in theaters each week.
Over the past two years the number of videos being uploaded per minute has increased from 6 hours in 2007 to 13 in January of this year and now 20 hours per minute. That’s a 233% increase from 2007 to now. Along with hosting millions of hours of user posted content, YouTube remains number one in most views per month. According to comScore, Google/YouTube streams just under 7 billion videos per month in the U.S. With that amount of online video and user interaction, YouTube really is the thousand pound gorilla in the online video space.
Google, the owner of YouTube, is shown dominating the online video space in this comScore chart from April 2009.
