YouTube, owned by Google has announced that one billion hours of videos are watched daily by its viewers. The company said that the milestone was reached at some point last year.
This announcement was made in a blog post which seems to suggest that “If you were to sit and watch a billion hours of YouTube, it would take you over 100,000 years.” It further added: “100,000 years ago, our ancestors were crafting stone tools and migrating out of Africa while mammoths and mastodons roamed the Earth. If you spent 100,000 years traveling at the speed of light, you could travel from one end of the Milky Way to the other (and you wouldn’t age a day!). And if you searched for 100,000 years on YouTube, you’d find a really killer KISS track.”
This means that more people are watching more videos on YouTube because the number of hours spent per day on the video viewing website keeps growing. In 2014, hours per day spent on YouTube was 300 million while in 2015 it was 500 million. It is now 1 billion hours per day.
