Last May YouTube celebrated its sixth birthday with an announcement that more than 48 hours of video were being uploaded every minute and that the site was racking up 3 billion daily views. In January of this year, they increased that number to 60 hours of video per minute and now, to celebrate birthday number 7 YouTube has announced that a whopping 72 hours of video is being uploaded to the site every minute!
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These days more people than ever are glued to their mobile devices. Last week at the IMA’s AppsMania event in Tel Aviv a presentation from mobile ad network InMobi showed just how big mobile is becoming.
LiveJournal has been generous enough to provide us with a new infographic about the site’s growth over the years, and it’s got some pretty interesting stats. Check it out after the jump.
An overwhelming majority of Google+ users are men according to research by Website-Monitoring — 67%, in fact. In addition, most G+ users live in Bangalore, most G+ users are students and the Google +1 Button is served more than 5 billion times a day. For anybody who’s suspecting that G+ is just a passing fad, I’d recommend you think again. Check out the infographic below for more information and a bit of analysis.
Leading Internet TV network Revision3 has just released their end-of-the-year stats for 2011 and they are pretty impressive. According to a post on the Revision3 blog, the network increased its viewership in 2011 by a whopping 359 percent, with nearly 800 million views over the course of the year.
Today, one hour of video is uploaded to YouTube every second. That’s 24 hours of video every 24 seconds, 60 hours a minute, 9 months every 2 hours, a decade every single day and a century every 10 days! That’s a lot of video.
Back in November, Cisco’s VP for Marketing and Emerging Technologies, David Hsieh, predicted that web video would soon account for a huge portion of Internet traffic saying, “Today over half of all Internet traffic is video—51 percent. And based on the current trends, we predict that in the next three years over 90 percent of all Internet traffic will be video.” YouTube’s head of global partnerships, Robert Kyncl, confirms in a speech at CES.
2011 was a big year for Vimeo. Not only did their membership increase by a whopping 82 percent and viewership increase by 48 percent, but they also launched a bunch of new services and features, making 2011 the biggest year ever for the video site. To celebrate, Vimeo launched a fun infographic roundup of their biggest 2011 news and statistics.
Pinterest, the invitation-only social online pinboard that lets users organize and share the things they love, has grown exponentially since it launched in March 2010. Experian Hitwise reports that the site has emerged as one of the top 10 websites within their Social Networking & Forums category.
The folks at RecordSetter have put together this extremely interesting infographic looking at 2011 World Records for social media. It looks at various networks including Facebook and Tumblr, and also has some statistics on games. Take a look below.
