YouTube: Changing the World One Upload at a Time
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Internet addicts beware, YouTube announced Wednesday that 24 hours worth of video are uploaded every minute. With that much content, you may never want to leave your computer monitor again, between watching other people’s videos and uploading your own, who has time for anything else.
“What’s next? 30 hours? 36 hours?” YouTube director of product management Hunter Walker said in a blog post. “A day’s worth of content uploaded to YouTube is a big achievement for our community and speaks to the role video plays in connecting and changing the world one upload at a time.”
In the past year, YouTube uploads grew from 15 hours in January to 20 hours in May. This growth is up from the mere six hours of video per minute in mid-2007. So with all this growth, YouTube owners must be raking in the cash right? Well not so much. How on Google earth are they still unable to harness the potential of people uploading every waking moment of their lives onto YouTube?
According to a recent report, Google, after having bought YouTube in 2006 for 1.65 billion dollars still has yet to make a profit.
Since gaining ownership, Google has been adding professional content including full-length television shows and movies along with the massive amount of amateur videos uploaded daily.
It seems that Google really needs to get this one figured out. What is astonishing is not the fact the 24 -hours of video is being uploaded every minute, but the fact that there is no money to be made from this venture.
Either way, YouTube is a powerful form of media, like it or not. You can view pretty much anything on YouTube from the mundane to the outrageous to the just plain weird. Whether or not it is changing the world one upload at a time or not, is another matter. Talk about hyperbole, Mr. Walker. We can all agree that a group of random teen girls jumping around bikinis trying to dance to “Milkshake” by Kelis is changing much of anything in the world.
Posted on 03/19/10
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