02-28-2017NEWS

YouTube viewers now watch more than 1 billion hours of video a day

The milestone is a 10-fold increase over the number of hours people viewed on the site in 2012, reports the Wall Street Journal. The massive increase is being driven by Google’s use of artificial intelligence to recommend what videos to watch next. Sixty-five years’ worth of video are now uploaded to YouTube every single day.

BY Michael Grothaus

The milestone is a 10-fold increase over the number of hours people viewed on the site in 2012, reports the Wall Street Journal. The massive increase is being driven by Google’s use of artificial intelligence to recommend what videos to watch next. Sixty-five years’ worth of video are now uploaded to YouTube every single day.

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Michael Grothaus is a novelist and author. He has written for Fast Company since 2013, where he's interviewed some of the tech industry’s most prominent leaders and writes about everything from Apple and artificial intelligence to the effects of technology on individuals and society. More

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