YouTube UK Blog: Thanks, YouTube community, for two BIG gifts on our sixth birthday!

Thanks, YouTube community, for two BIG gifts on our sixth birthday!

Thursday, 26 May 2011

In May 2005, the YouTube founders launched YouTube.com, providing people with a platform to broadcast themselves to the world. Six years on, the world is watching and we wanted to say thank you to the YouTube community for a couple of amazing birthday presents.
First, your video. Back in November we challenged you to up the volume of videos you uploaded to the site. And boy, did you take the bait. Today, more than 48 hours (two days worth) of video are uploaded to the site every minute, a 37% increase over the last six months and 100% over last year. From videos documenting a baby’s first steps in San Francisco, Calif., to a protest in Syria, to a commencement speech at Yale University, we’re continually impressed and inspired by the quality and breadth (in addition to quantity) of videos that you upload to the site every day. On our end, we're constantly evolving to provide the best video sharing and viewing experience for you from faster processing of uploads to longer video lengths to the launch of self-service live stream capabilities to partners.

What can happen in two days, you ask?

You could drive non-stop across the country from our office in San Bruno, Calif. to New York City
You could undertake a massive movie marathon by watching the entire Back to the Future trilogy eight and a half times (we’d recommend you do that at YouTube Movies)
An ambitious cheetah (the fastest land animal at an average running speed of 75 mph) starting in South Africa could traverse 3600 miles of the African continent and reach Egypt

The other great birthday present? Your views. We’re amazed that over this last weekend, you drove YouTube past the 3 billion views a day mark, a 50% increase over last year. That’s the equivalent of nearly half the world’s population watching a YouTube video each day, or every U.S. resident watching at least nine videos a day.

The first six years of a person’s life are incredibly important for development. The same could be said for a company. For the last six years we’ve grown and evolved in our quest to push video forward and deliver the best possible experience to you. So when will we reach 72 hours a minute, or 4 billion views a day? That’s up to you. For our part, we'll continue to work at delivering the diversity and quality of content you're asking for, from live streams of music festivals to campaigns around social inspiration and change, rockstars in education to citizen-journalist coverage of global events and YOU showcasing your own talent. You’ve made YouTube successful because it’s a reflection of you and your world. If this is what we’ve accomplished together in six years, we can only imagine where you’ll take us in the next six!

The YouTube Team recently watched “An Adorable 6-Year-Old Dancer”.

10 comments :

MachineBoy727 May 2011 at 16:18
Can I get a link to watch Back To The Future on Youtube Movies or is it not there?
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MachineBoy727 May 2011 at 16:20
Nevermind, I looked. It's not there.
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Truedantalion28 May 2011 at 20:15
Happy 6th Birthday :-)!

Well, off to school you are, then xD ...
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Aaron Fowkes31 May 2011 at 07:39
You can definitely tell this is just a copy-paste from a single post for the American blog. Plus when you say "Two Big Gifts", I assumed you meant for the community as part of a celebration and a thank you, such as finally being able to designate our videos to autoloop instead of using a hack with Annotations, or allow better channel customization. I wasn't expecting the present to be numbers on how many people watch Youtube or how much video is uploaded a day, and a .png file. By all means, it's awesome that Youtube has a birthday, but the title is a little misleading. Happy Birthday though, Youtube. I just wish it could have been celebrated better than with just a blog post.
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Tom Buckers26 June 2011 at 05:37
happy 6th birthday youtube. Keep up the good work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK-IWjjQM4Q
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jon10 August 2011 at 23:33
Its really a nice and interesting post. I am impressed. Keep it up.

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Tony@KFC11 September 2011 at 07:09
I'm damn well FED-UP WITH USA " front and center " and all the Bull;;; FROM OBAMA.BUSH AND BLAIR [ yep, he's not English he's a US citizen

THE WORLD DONT WANT BE RULED BY AMERICA OR HAVE THEIR OIL STOLEN.
WHERE IS THE WMD Mr.Bush OVER 50% of IRAQ HAVE NO ELECTRIC STILL.
I'M GLAD I'M NOT AN US CITIZEN.
WANT TO DO SOMETHING GOOD FOR THE WORLD-SOLVE THE ISRAEL [ sorry, USA ] AND PALESTINE
HOW MANY MORE BLOODY FOUNDATIONS fer " My daddy done this boo hoo "
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abbott.simth9 June 2012 at 02:59
They were celebration 16th birthday party photo on the video so that can be know that and used in this video.

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albina N muro30 July 2013 at 21:40
It's Christmas Eve and as Grandma and Grandpa set out to visit their grandkids to delivery holiday gifts, their car takes a spin and the gifts fly out landing just where they were needed. fathers day gifts
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