facts about youtube

Facts:

60 hours of video are uploaded every minute, or one hour of video is uploaded to YouTube every second.

Over 4 billion videos are viewed a day

Over 800 million unique users visit YouTube each month

Over 3 billion hours of video are watched each month on YouTube

More video is uploaded to YouTube in one month than the 3 major US networks created in 60 years

70% of YouTube traffic comes from outside the US

YouTube is localized in 39 countries and across 54 languages

In 2011, YouTube had more than 1 trillion views

In 2011 there were almost 140 views for every person on Earth

Created in 2007, the YouTube partner program now has 30,000+ partners from 27 countries around the world

YouTube pays out millions of dollars a year to partners

Hundreds of partners are making six figures a year

Partner revenue has more than doubled for four years in a row

YouTube has more HD content than any other online video site

There are thousands of full-length movies on YouTube

10% of YouTube’s videos are available in HD

YouTube mobile gets over 600 million views a day

Traffic from mobile devices tripled in 2011

The YouTube player is embedded across tens of millions of websites