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Here we present newly collected data showing how much content is uploaded to YouTube each day. This new version of the post attempts to be more comprehensive than the previous version. Still, it is not intended to be all inclusive. This new data shows the amount of data uploaded to be a factor of 2 to 3 greater than previous data indicated. It illustrates the scale of video content YouTube is dealing with.

Sat
28-Aug-10
Sun
29-Aug-10
Mon
30-Aug-10
Tue
31-Aug-10
Wed
01-Sep-10
Thu
02-Sep-10
Fri
03-Sep-10
Total
91751 | 4085
Total
118369 | 5133
Total
109517 | 4894
Total
99737 | 4535
Total
109628 | 4774
Total
103375 | 4463
Total
73276 | 2833
English
14011 | 538
English
14499 | 643
English
13965 | 603
English
13533 | 578
English
14190 | 580
English
13374 | 535
English
8676 | 296
Spanish
10106 | 402
Spanish
12668 | 487
Spanish
12109 | 471
Spanish
11411 | 462
Spanish
12571 | 487
Spanish
11447 | 441
Spanish
7735 | 276
Portuguese
9163 | 336
Portuguese
11534 | 420
Portuguese
10782 | 411
Portuguese
9851 | 391
Portuguese
11181 | 425
Portuguese
9815 | 367
Portuguese
6427 | 237
German
8509 | 396
German
10525 | 459
German
9660 | 438
German
8868 | 405
German
10140 | 434
German
9228 | 400
German
6806 | 252
French
6547 | 300
French
9170 | 383
French
8767 | 361
French
8134 | 350
French
8403 | 356
French
8066 | 338
French
5562 | 223
Italian
5793 | 293
Italian
7941 | 383
Italian
8137 | 410
Italian
7241 | 365
Italian
7760 | 379
Italian
7621 | 364
Italian
5539 | 244
Japanese
8219 | 384
Japanese
10823 | 456
Japanese
10072 | 440
Japanese
9179 | 396
Japanese
9584 | 424
Japanese
9016 | 389
Japanese
6793 | 275
Last updated at 05:00PM, 03-Sep-2010 EDT

The chart shows YouTube upload data in a format that is comparable to the chart shown on “How Much New Television – Trailing 7 Day”. The horizontal axis is calendar time at the granularity of hours. The vertical axis is content duration, also at the granularity of hours, indicating the amount of content uploaded each hour of the 7 day period. The scale of the y axis has increased to 400 hours; each horizontal grid line represents 50 hours. The text below each 24 period indicates the language associated with upload data, the number of titles uploaded in the day, and the number of hours of content uploaded in the day.

Currently, only the total uploaded content, regardless of language, and the uploads for a number of individual languages are shown. You are invited to suggest additional languages.

Notes

Google’s YouTube Data API is being used to collect the data that produce these results. Also, the Google Chart API is used to render the charts.

From December 20-23, the Google YouTube Data API started generating erratic results. A few days later, December 24th, the interface stabilized, so we have returned to showing the live data.

Acknowledgment

Again, we want to thank our colleague Don Davis (see http://world.std.com/~dtd/) for helping design the data collection and analysis strategy used in this post.

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