YouTube at 8: 100 hours uploaded every minute

Google’s video-sharing website YouTube has marked its eighth birthday with the announcement that 100 hours of content is now uploaded every minute.

Writing on the YouTube blog, the website’s team said “When YouTube’s site first launched in May 2005, we never could have imagined the endless ways in which you would inspire, inform and entertain us every day. Today, more than 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute.”

It is now claimed that more than 1billion users visit YouTube each month, equivalent to nearly half of all we users.

It took YouTube five years to get to 35 hours of content each minute, but the rate has more than doubled since 2011 alone

The YouTube team told its users “We’d like to thank you for making YouTube the special place that it is. For showing us how video can create connections, transcend borders and make a difference. For clicking these links even if you aren’t sure what they’ll be.”