Something very big and basic is happening
Youtube just released its latest numbers and they are truly astonishing.
People are now uploading video to Youtube at the rate of 48 hours of content every minute
This is almost incomprehensible (except it is destined only to get bigger and bigger), but let’s pause for a moment at the 48 hours a minute mark and look at exactly what that means.
30 Rock, a very popular show on NBC is now entering its sixth season.
On average, 30 Rock makes about 20 shows per seaons.
That means that in 5 years, 30 Rock has produced 102 shows, exactly, as a matter of fact.
Each show is 44 minutes long, so in five years NBC has produced 4,480 minutes of 30 Rock.
Youtube would consume that content in one minute and 30 seconds.
Call out Einstein because now we are talking about time as a flexible quantity.
5 years in NBC time = 1.5 minutes in Youtube time.
There are currently 56 billion videos on Youtube. If each video averages 2 minutes (let’s say, but I think that’s light), then Youtube now contains 112 billion minutes of video. Youtube is only 5 years old.
That would be 1.86 billion hours of content or 78 million days of content or 213,00 years of video.
213,000 years ago would conincide the the arrival of the first human-like creatures on earth.
That is a LOTÂ Of video, in only 5 years.
Or, to put it in another perspective, it would take NBC, working in 30 Rock time, 375 bilion years to achieve what Youtube has achieved in only 5.
And, as the universe is pegged at approxiately 13.75 billion years, there is really no timescale available to properly calculate how long it takes NBC to make a show.
Sort of.
