Five Years In, YouTube Is Now Streaming Two Billion Views Per Day [telecom]

Five Years In, YouTube Is Now Streaming Two Billion Views Per Day

YouTube has also compiled some stats and timelines as it reflects on its first five years.

Here are the site's most current stats:

2 Billion views a day
3rd most visited website (Alexa)

Localized in 23 countries across 24 different languages

15 The average number of minutes people spend on the site each day
24 Hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute
45 Million home page impressions every day Update: YouTube has clarified that this is the number of daily impressions in the US alone
70% of YouTube traffic comes from outside the U.S.
100 Years of video scanned by copyright managent technology, Content ID, every day
1700 Years it would take you to watch the hundreds of millions of videos on YouTube

***** Moderator's Note *****

I'm not sure if this story is related to telecom as it exists today, but it may be related to its future. AFAICT, we're going back to the days when written communication was the only means of telecommunications, just as when Western Union Messengers delivered telegrams at all hours of day or night.