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YouTube Hits 1 BILLION HOURS Watched PER DAY! — Is Online Video Replacing Television?

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Channel: Mike Martins · 2017 · People & Blogs

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“I can sincerely see one out of three people on the planet end up getting a channel within the next hundred years, with their points of view or what's going on.”
— Mike Martins


YouTube just hit an incredible milestone: viewers around the world are now watching more than ONE BILLION HOURS of YouTube every single day.

Think about that number.

According to the article I'm discussing in this February 2017 video, YouTube viewing has increased roughly tenfold since 2012. Around 400 hours of video are being uploaded every minute, which works out to decades worth of new video being uploaded every single day.

And traditional television now has some serious competition.

What interests me most isn't just the billion-hour number. It's what happens next.

More ordinary people are getting cameras, starting channels and putting their own opinions, experiences and information online. Instead of a handful of television networks deciding what everybody watches, potentially millions—or eventually billions—of individuals could have their own channels.

I've been using my channel to talk about the housing crisis, particularly what's happening across English-speaking countries, because YouTube gives regular people an opportunity to start conversations that might not otherwise happen.

But there's another side to this technological change that I'm watching closely: algorithms.

If algorithms increasingly determine what videos people are recommended, they can have enormous influence over what information gets seen and what disappears into the background.

Where does all of this go over the next 10, 20, 50 or even 100 years?

Could having your own channel eventually become as normal as having a telephone or television?

We're watching something enormous being built right in front of us.


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