YouTube is 10 years old: the evolution of online video

Ten years is a long time on the internet, especially when 300 hours of video are uploaded to your site every minute. On YouTube's 10th birthday, we trace the growth and growing pains of online video

Allow me to make a bold statement: YouTube, at 10 years old, is the most interesting place on the internet. It's not about the platform or the brand, of course, but rather the sheer amount of content it hosts and its diversity.

300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. Not all of it is worth watching but enough of it is that you won't live long enough to see it all.

After one listen I instantly fell in love with the song so for the entire ride [to LA from Las Vegas] to I kept playing it over and over so I could try to learn all the words. The second I walked into my apartment, I set up my camera ... I uploaded it to Facebook and got a huge response from all of my friends so I decided to upload it on YouTube as well. It went viral in a day.