8 years after launch, 100 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute.

Today is the eighth birthday of YouTube, and on this occasion, Google has published new statistics. So, every minute more than 100 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube. A year ago, this figure was 72 hours per minute, two years ago - 48 hours.

So, in addition to a record audience - more than one billion people visit YouTube every month, more and more users upload their clips to the site in the hope of becoming the author of the next viral hit, writes The Verge. YouTube has noted some of the memorable videos on its blog , although the problem is more likely to find one that you have not seen.