Surprising YouTube.com Data Point
December 4, 2008
Yahoo News posted a story about YouTube’s crackdown on inappropriate content. You can read the Yahoo version of the AFP article here. For me the key data point in the story was this factoid: YouTube… receives 13 hours of video from users every minute.” Since a reader groused about my extrapolating from Google numbers for which there is no verification, I will leave it to you, gentle reader, to calculate how much data Google gets every 24 hours. A very rough mental calculation performed by the addled goose suggests that this is one million videos every couple of works. Think this is too high. Divide my number in half. That is still a lot of digital video.
Stephen Arnold, December 4, 2008