YouTube Mobile Views Up 400% In 18 Months
"We’re experiencing a massive consumer shift," said YouTube’s Global Head of Content, Robert Kyncl, at the Abu Dhabi Media Summit this week. Consumers are watching more online video on mobile devices than ever before and, as a result, "mobile has increased from 6% to 25% in the last 18 months across the whole of YouTube."
“We’re experiencing a massive consumer shift,” said YouTube’s Global Head of Content, Robert Kyncl, at the Abu Dhabi Media Summit this week. Consumers are watching more online video on mobile devices than ever before and, as a result, “mobile has increased from 6% to 25% in the last 18 months across the whole of YouTube.”
Business Insider’s Owen Thomas reports that “that figure is up dramatically from the latest official statistics YouTube provides.” According to the YouTube Press Statistics page, traffic from mobile devices tripled in 2011, over 20% of YouTube’s global views came from mobile devices and 3 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube per minute from mobile devices.
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