Interesting YouTube Usage Facts

For anybody who still has doubts over the uptake of video online here are some interesting facts about YouTube from the Mercury News.

• YouTube was the number one video site on the Internet as of January - with 67.5 million unique users in the U.S., according to Nielsen NetRatings.
• The site also was the 6th largest Internet destination overall, Nielsen determined.
• People watch hundreds of millions of videos a day on the service.
• Every minute, 10 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube.
• Of the 9.5 billion online videos watched in the U.S. in November last year, 2.9 billion of those were watched on YouTube, according to Comscore.