- Every day, 150 years worth of videos are watched on Facebook.
- Every minute, more than 400 Tweets contain a YouTube link.
- Every minute, 36 hours of new video are uploaded onto YouTube.
- More video is uploaded on YouTube in 60 days than the three major US TV networks created in 60 years.
- More than 70% of YouTube traffic comes from outside the U.S.
- YouTube has localized sites in 25 countries, using 43 languages
- Last year, 55 million people around the world watched IPL (Indian Premiere League) cricket live on YouTube
- Google's speech recognition.software can translate YouTube videos and create captions in 51 languages
- There are more than 7000 hours of full-length entertainment films and shows on YouTube.
- As of February 2011, YouTube had 490 million unique users worldwide, who rack up about 92 billion pageviews and 2.9 billion hours of viewing a month.
This blog is affiliated with a course at the School of Journalism & Electronic Media at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. I'll try to use it to share relevant news and information with the class, and anyone else who's interested.
Monday, April 11, 2011
Latest "Wow" Stats on UGC and YouTube
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