YouTube viewers watch 1bn hours a day

The amount of video footage watched on YouTube has passed 1 billion hours a day, YouTube said in an official blog post.

Although eMarketer doesn’t break out daily usage of YouTube, we estimate the video-sharing platform will reach 185.9 million monthly USA users in 2017. What is even more captivating is that 65 years worth of videos are uploaded to YouTube on a daily basis. By this way, YouTube has challenged the eclipse U.S television viewership.

Cristos Goodrow, vp of engineering at YouTube, who authored Monday’s blog post, threw out a metaphor to help wrap your brain around that insane figure.

You might have noticed that once you’ve spent a specific amount of time on YouTube, the recommendations alongside the video tend to find the videos similar to the ones you are watching.

In its most recent earnings call, Google’s parent company, Alphabet, said that every day more than 1,000 YouTube content creators reach the milestone of having 1,000 channel subscribers. Added details from the website itself say that YouTube has over one billion users right now and the company has more than 88 local versions worldwide. The social network is embarking on an aggressive expansion into video, aiming to become a YouTube-style content destination within the next few years. According to the announcement, the milestone was reached a year ago, but YouTube only shared the news yesterday. YouTube’s growth has many contributing factors, but most important is its close relationship to other Google products. Youtube has given a freedom to everyone that anyone can put their videos on youtube as Youtube is a search engine people wants and likes to watch reality and Youtube is full of reality.