30 minutes of YouTube video uploaded every second

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I have just been reading about the YouTube Porn Day scandal and it reminded me that I had been meaning to pass this little snippet of information on, direct from a YouTube Team Member and serving to illustrate just how popular the Google owned video clip sharing site has become. That truly sickening porn videos disguised as family content story takes on a whole new dimension of disgust when you appreciate the kind of popularity we are talking about here.

According to Ryan Junee, Product Manager at YouTube, an astonishing 20 hours of video content are uploaded to the service every single minute, or more than 30 minutes of film every second.

To put that into some historical context, Junee reveals that in mid-2007 YouTube was seeing around six hours a minute being uploaded, and this grew to 15 hours by January this year. That is "the equivalent of Hollywood releasing over 86,000 new full-length movies into theaters each week" Junee insists.

He also mentions a new method of uploading video content, with a feature that "allows users to conveniently record a video response immediately after watching a video, making the YouTube experience even more social" by clicking an icon to activate your webcam and record your comments.

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The figure quotes (YouTube’s product team saying roughly 20 hours of video uploaded every minute) is accurate for the May 2009 update, but the unit conversion in the original post is off. Twenty hours per minute equals about 20 minutes of video added every second (20 hours ÷ 60 seconds = 1/3 hour/second = 20 minutes/second). Put another way: 20 hours/minute ≈ 28,800 hours per day, or on the order of 100,000 two‑hour films uploaded each week (these are rough conversions of the headline stat). (techcrunch.com)

Those upload rates rose quickly after 2009 — YouTube passed a day’s worth of video per minute (24 hrs/min) in 2010 and continued scaling into the tens of hours per minute in subsequent years. That growth explains why raw upload volume became a practical problem for discovery, moderation, copyright enforcement and brand safety: sheer volume, not just a few bad uploads, creates systemic challenges. (en.wikipedia.org)

As notes, video is a powerful but potentially harmful medium. Platforms cope with scale using automated fingerprinting and rights‑management (Content ID), human review, trained “trusted” flaggers, and reporting channels — plus specific child‑safety escalation paths for urgent cases. For creators: register/licence assets correctly, keep clean metadata, and use distributor/partner routes that can register works with Content ID. For those spotting abusive content: use the platform’s reporting tools and the child‑safety/reporting channels so cases can be escalated to human review and, when appropriate, external authorities. These measures lower risk but do not remove it entirely; moderation remains an ongoing engineering and policy effort. ()

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Videos has an advantage as an easy medium of sharing information.The disadvantage comes when it is used in an offensive way like on porn and other unlawful way.

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