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YouTube Daily Mobile Uploads Have Increased 400% Since Launch of iPhone 3GS


Google today announced that daily YouTube uploads directly from mobile devices have increased 400% since the release of the iPhone 3GS last Friday. The iPhone 3GS includes the ability to record video and provides for easy uploading directly to YouTube from within the Camera Roll section of the Photos application.

YouTube also notes, however, that the spike generated by the release of the iPhone 3GS is also the acceleration of a trend that has seen the upload rate grow by 1700% over the past six months.

This growth represents three things coming together: new video-enabled phones on the market, improvements to the upload flow when you post a video to YouTube from your phone, and a new feature on YouTube that allows your videos to be quickly and effortlessly shared through your social networks. It takes just a minute to connect your YouTube account to your Facebook, Twitter and Google Reader accounts. Complete a simple, one-time connection on our upload page to allow all your friends and followers to get a real-time stream of your uploads to YouTube, which can be essential in this age of citizen reporting and ubiquitous sharing.

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34 months ago
Wow - this is quite an impact!
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34 months ago
Is that why YouTube has been crawling for the past few days?
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34 months ago
Bandwidth problems sometime soon anyone? :D
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34 months ago
It's really incredible what adding a feature people have been asking for will do, haha.
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34 months ago
i haven't even taken a video yet..... i'll have to get right on that! :eek:
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34 months ago
Yesssss, just what the internet needs: more homemade cat videos!!!!!
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34 months ago

It's really incredible what adding a feature people have been asking for will do, haha.

One can only imagine the extensive lobbying engaged for the purpose of delaying such features - the front facing camera being one of them.
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34 months ago

Yesssss, just what the internet needs: more homemade cat videos!!!!!


WTB more Alaskan Malamute puppy videos!! :D

Cutest puppies on the face of the planet!
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34 months ago
Nice MMS option.
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34 months ago

Yesssss, just what the internet needs: more homemade cat videos!!!!!


Actually, thats exactly what we'll get.

Proof:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj8aVh--iFI

1. Movie of one of my Guinea Pigs
2. Made with an iPhone 3GS
3. My first Youtube upload ever.

So there you have it :)
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