How do the Youtube servers keep up?

YouTube, despite tallying over a billion views for its most popular videos, is managing to find room to grow, with the official YouTube blog posting that the video-sharing site’s many users manage to upload a total of around 35 hours of video content to the website per minute.

This mind boggling figure results in a total of around 2100 hours of content each hour, 50,400 a day, and a staggering 18,396,000 per year. This is an increase of 11 hours per minute compared to figures from March, which had counted an impressive day’s worth of content every minute.

These figures mean that at the current rate, it would be impossible to watch all of the websites content on your own in your life time, especially considering that in the time it takes to pour a cup of coffee, there could be as much as a literal day’s worth of new content online.

YouTube has claimed several attributes this unprecedented growth of uploading to several key factors, such as the decision to allow user-uploaded video time limits to go as high as 15 minutes (previously 10) per video, as well as the large file size limit of 2GB per upload, and with new technology widely available, ease and quickness of use when sharing experiences with the online world.

In an August report from market researcher ComScore, noted that Google’s array of video hosting sites, led in chief by YouTube, had seen over 143 million unique viewers from July alone, with around 1.8 billion non-unique viewing sessions. Another key stat was that the average online viewer spent approximately 282.7 minutes (just over 4 1/2 hours) watching YouTube videos. It is an unfathomable growth, but can it continue?

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