YouTube hits 35 hours uploaded every minute

YouTube has said users are now uploading more than 35 hours of video every minute, just weeks after the site counted its one billionth subscriber.

The company said in a blog post that within eight months, traffic has increased by nearly 69% and the 35 hours is up from 24 hours per minute during March.

“That breaks out to 2,100 hours uploaded every 60 minutes, or 50,400 hours uploaded to YouTube every day,” director of product management Hunter Walk said in a statement.

“If we were to measure that in movie terms (assuming the average Hollywood film is around 120 minutes long), 35 hours a minute is the equivalent of over 176,000 full-length Hollywood releases every week.”

Walk also pointed out that if three major broadcasting networks showed YouTube content 24/7 for 60 years, this would still pale in comparison to the amount of content uploaded to the site every month.

The site said this result is partly due to the fact users are now allowed to upload videos with running times longer than 10 minutes, a feature introduced in July.