Amazing stats

Wall Street Journal has some very amazing and fascinating stats about YouTube. Just look at this:

• In a single month the number of videos on the site grew 20% to 6.1 million


• YouTube has some 45 terabytes of videos


• Video views reached 1.73 billion


• 70% of YouTube's registered users are American, roughly 50% are under 20


• The total time people spent watching YouTube since it started last year is 9,305 years

Since 70% of the users are Americans, I have a feeling this is only the beginning. In a short period of time YouTube will be spread all over the world. Just like blogging starting out in the Anglo sphere. Looks to me like social media and global video market is here to stay. And it will only get bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger…