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According to Google, “one hour of video is uploaded to YouTube every second”

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Did you read the mind-boggling factoid? One hour of video is uploaded to YouTube every second. Or, 60 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. No matter how you spell it out, this really is remarkable stuff. Furthermore, this amount of uploaded content is an increase of more than 30 percent in the last eight months! In other fascinating news, the video sharing service has exceeded four billion video views globally every day–up 25 percent in the last eight months and “the equivalent of more than half the world’s population watching a video every day.”

Are you finding it hard to wrap your head around all this? YouTube has put together a neat visualization at www.onehourpersecond.com that helps interpret the facts. Preview it in the video embedded above, and consciously know that you are contributing to the site’s daily viewership that now exceeds four billion!

[Via YouTube]

TV viewership is up

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According to IGN, “the top five rated premieres of ’09 were all up when compared to the top five premieres from last year.”  In other words, more people are tuning into series premieres and helping new shows flourish and reach their potentials.  Here are the top five debuts:

  • 1 NBC’s The Jay Leno Show: 5.3 (rating – % of TV sets watching THIS show)/14 (share – % of TV sets watching ANY show)
  • 2 FOX’s The Cleveland Show: 4.9/12 (!)
  • 3 CBS’ NCIS Los Angeles: 4.4/11
  • 3 ABC’s Cougar Town: 4.4/11
  • 5 ABC’s Modern Family: 4.2/11 (!)

    • Here are the top 5 debuts from last year:

  • 1 CBS’ Worst Week: 3.8/8
  • 2 CBS’ The Mentalist: 3.5/9
  • 3 FOX’s Hole in the Wall: 3.5/10
  • 4 FOX’s Fringe: 3.2/9
  • 5 NBC’s Knight Rider: 2.5/7

    • So what does it all mean, Basil?  People are watching TV more than they were before, and that’s a good thing.

    [Via IGN]