YouTube, the world’s largest video sharing platform, celebrates its eighth birthday this week.
YouTube, which was acquired by Google in 2006, has become the go-to destination to find video content on almost every subject possible – from the latest viral “Harlem shake” video to how-to demonstrations on making a home solar-energy equipped.
With YouTube viewers can access and create news, information or entertainment, wherever they are and on whatever device they have available.
Latest figures show that more than 100 hours of video footage is uploaded to YouTube every minute – in 2012, it was 72 hours every minute; in 2011, it was 48 hours; and in 2010 it was 35 hours.
With over 6-billion hours of video watched per month, a quarter of which are viewed on a mobile device, YouTube is growing each year.
In the past year in South Africa, visits to the platform have grown by 80%, and uploads have increased by 30%.
YouTube, which was acquired by Google in 2006, has become the go-to destination to find video content on almost every subject possible – from the latest viral “Harlem shake” video to how-to demonstrations on making a home solar-energy equipped.
With YouTube viewers can access and create news, information or entertainment, wherever they are and on whatever device they have available.
Latest figures show that more than 100 hours of video footage is uploaded to YouTube every minute – in 2012, it was 72 hours every minute; in 2011, it was 48 hours; and in 2010 it was 35 hours.
With over 6-billion hours of video watched per month, a quarter of which are viewed on a mobile device, YouTube is growing each year.
In the past year in South Africa, visits to the platform have grown by 80%, and uploads have increased by 30%.