Posts Tagged ‘Hunter Walk’

YouTube director of product management Hunter Walk posted on the YouTube Blog that users of the Google-owned video site are uploading 35 hours of video per minute, up from 24 in March. Walk posted:

Remember in March when we shared with you that more than 24 hours of video was being uploaded to YouTube every minute? Well, you continue to amaze us: You’ve increased the amount of video uploaded to YouTube to 35 hours per minute. That breaks out to 2,100 hours uploaded every 60 minutes, or 50,400 hours uploaded to YouTube every day. If we were to measure that in movie terms (assuming the average Hollywood film is around 120 minutes long), 35 hours per minute is the equivalent of more than 176,000 full-length Hollywood releases every week. Another way to think about it is: If three of the major U.S. networks were broadcasting 24 hours per day, seven days per week, 365 days per year for the last 60 years, they still wouldn’t have broadcast as much content as is uploaded to YouTube every 30 days.

As you can see from the above chart, the number of uploads to YouTube has more than doubled in the last two years. How come? Here are some of the factors contributing to the growth:

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In a Huffington Post/Yahoo! News video interview with Willow Bay, Warren Buffet says that he spends so much time and has so much fun watching videos on YouTube that the video giant “should be charging [him] a lot of money” to use their service. As a response to Buffet’s statement, YouTube’s Director of Product Management [...]

Online video has come a long way in the last five years, since YouTube hit the ground running. In honor of YouTube’s first five years, the video site’s Director of Product Management Hunter Walk offered up some of his predictions about the future of online video and where he thinks the industry will be five [...]