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May 21st 2012 marks the 7th Birthday of YouTube, and to celebrate they’ve compiled a video showcasing everything that has made them great to this very day, including a host of great statistics about what happens on YouTube. Thanks Alicia. Here’s just a few YouTube stats for 2012:
- There are over 4 Billion Videos viewed per day
- Kony had 30 million in just 24 hours
- 72 Hours of video uploaded per day
Brilliant video. I got interested in the “Girl hearing herself for the first time” snippet. So I YouTubed the video, and this is what I have to say.
If one is born deaf, how does one understand what people around are saying and react to it? Especially when one is crying, with hands over eyes that negates the possibility of this girl lip reading. Personally I think this video is bullshit. A scam 13 million people fell for.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsOo3jzkhYA&feature=share
72 hours per day? THAT’S MASSIVE. oh, wait. It isn’t.
72 Hours of video per minute, not day.
Not bad going for 2 people who set-up in a garage. When they started in 2005 I bet they never thought they would have had the influence they’ve had on people around the world on a political level. If it wasn’t for YouTube would would the Arab Spring have been effective as it was? The images captured by people on the ground were so powerful that it encouraged others to rise up. It seems that just about every News Channel I watch has footage captured by ordinary people these days. In the near-past we were only provided with snippets of content from a correspondent in one area of a trouble-spot, but now the footage captured by the professionals is just part of a broad mix. If anything, the News Agencies must have a hard job curating all the content for broadcast.
YouTube, I salute you!