YouTube Celebrates Its 7th Birthday, 72 Hours Of Video Now Uploaded Every Minute

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!

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!

The YouTube Team writes, “Like many 7 year olds around the world, we’re growing up so fast!  In other words, every single minute you now upload three who days worth of video instead of two. 

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