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

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Google today announced (http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=kbaLH7fmm-g) 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 (http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_upload) 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.

Article Link: YouTube Daily Mobile Uploads Have Increased 400% Since Launch of iPhone 3GS (http://www.macrumors.com/2009/06/25/youtube-daily-mobile-uploads-have-increased-400-since-launch-of-iphone-3gs/)

[DMann]

Wow - this is quite an impact!

[qrayg]

Is that why YouTube has been crawling for the past few days?

[Adrien24]

Bandwidth problems sometime soon anyone? :D

[Doodledoo]

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

[caligurl]

i haven't even taken a video yet..... i'll have to get right on that! :eek:

[alec]

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

[DMann]

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.

[messedkid]

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!

[rfrankl]

Nice MMS option.

[DrFu79]

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 :)

[GottaLoveApple4]

Nice MMS option.

AT&T fail....

[pubwvj]

Up 400%... any good ones? Really?!?

[auburnfan24]

i wonder if it will ever be possible to video your screen (much like a screenshot) but able to video playing a game (for demos or tutorials). this may not be of use to many, but it would be cool to have!

[krye]

Great, as if YouTube wasn't bad enough. Now it's the hub of s****y 30 second iPhone videos of absolutely nothing important or impressive.

[zengod]

Time to invest in backup and storage companies methinks ......

[samac92]

the announcement actually states that since the 3GS release uploads have increased 400% each day

"just since last Friday, when the iPhone 3GS came out, uploads increased by 400% a day."

[old-wiz]

How long before the AT&T network falls to its' knees and AT&T bans uploading of video to youtube?

[DMann]

Great, as if YouTube wasn't bad enough. Now it's the hub of s****y 30 second iPhone videos of absolutely nothing important or impressive.Let's just hope they remain at an average of 30 seconds duration.

[Jeremy08]

How long before the AT&T network falls to its' knees and AT&T bans uploading of video to youtube?

If that happened i would likely call and complain until they let me out of my contract, sell my iPhone, and go to verizon. I have had it up to here with AT&T.:mad:

[chris200x9]

now youtube can lose even more money :)

[chipmonkey]

And not one is worth watching... :p

[SuperKat]

MMS option. Hmph, must be nice. :mad:

[OneShotos]

:mad: Don't worry all those people posting ain't on AT&T network :eek: we can even get MMS or tethering. :rolleyes: Let alone not having to waiting 3 day to get phone service.

[iphones4evry1]

Did anyone read the article on Google (who owns Youtube) this morning?
They are having a financing hurdle with Youtube. The uploads and new server equipment costs are growing so fast that future projections show that Google may have to cut back on Youtube in the future. (the rate of costs of operation are growing faster than advertising income revenue)
Let me find the link...
http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090625/does-google-need-to-start-bulking-up-again/?reflink=ATD_yahoo_ticker

[Natesac]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcV6fZY2xow

my first 3G S youtube upload

[miket019]

great news, less time for work

[RITmusic2k]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcV6fZY2xow

my first 3G S youtube upload

Five stars.

[localoid]

It's amazing how technology is constantly providing new and better ways for people to publicly embarrass themselves.

[iphones4evry1]

This guy dropped his 3GS into a swimming pool, it recorded the whole thing, still working, and he uploaded it to Youtube. Cool video. I'm not going to try it and you probably shouldn't either, but it's good to know that it's water resistant.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qbWjaW25mQ

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

Hopefully, this will give the police another reason to think twice before misbehaving. Police already know hundreds of candid videos of police abuse have turned up in the professional media, and now with camera phones becoming even more prevalent, hopefully we will get to a point where police abuse will be a thing of the past. George Orwell predicted Big Brother, but he never thought of millions of little brothers.

[DMann]

This guy dropped his 3GS into a swimming pool, it recorded the whole thing, still working, and he uploaded it to Youtube. Cool video. I'm not going to try it and you probably shouldn't either, but it's good to know that it's water resistant.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qbWjaW25mQThis is priceless...

[DrFu79]

It's amazing how technology is constantly providing new and better ways for people to publicly embarrass themselves.

I have even more GREAT Guinea Pig movies on my YouTube-Channel.
You have never seen anything like this.

They're ... EATING and ... even WALKING around !!!!!!

(please kill me)

[DMann]

They're ... EATING and ... even WALKING around !!!!!!At the same time? Simultaneously? Must have had extensive training.

[iphones4evry1]

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

And annoying "daily bloggers" are now going to have the ability to go mobile. :(
example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-SNA6awMjA

Here's a good example of what to film with your 3GS, something DIFFERENT, that is NOT a cat video or "Hi, it's me again!" video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHB5M9-yDac

[iphones4evry1]

Here is advice from a Youtube comment poster:

"Set your camera to 640x360 widescreen instead of 640x480. The widescreen version will be automatically picked up by youtube "high quality", something that won't be for 4:3 videos."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B92TnRSGUfY&NR=1

And from a comment from the second link I posted in comment #34, just above:

Film video in landscape orientation, and not in portrait orientation (since Youtube is widescreen now)

[iphones4evry1]

michael jackson is dead

It looks like Twitter has just been over tweeted.

Okay, back on topic. 3GS VIDEO
.

[WestonHarvey1]

It's amazing how technology is constantly providing new and better ways for people to publicly embarrass themselves.

No one will see it though. The number of videos is so overwhelming there are simply fewer and fewer hits, even on really great videos. We are heading to a point where big media and a few viral superstars will control everything of relevance.

It's basically a dumping ground of forgotten videos, and 3GS is helping it along.

[phillipjfry]

Great, as if YouTube wasn't bad enough. Now it's the hub of s****y 30 second iPhone videos of absolutely nothing important or impressive.

Welcome to the Internet. ;)

[ShiftyPig]

Brilliant - 400% more garbage that people will never watch.

[iphones4evry1]

No one will see it though. The number of videos is so overwhelming there are simply fewer and fewer hits, even on really great videos. We are heading to a point where big media and a few viral superstars will control everything of relevance.

It's basically a dumping ground of forgotten videos, and 3GS is helping it along.

I disagree. The best of the amateur videos will rise. And for those that don't rise to the millions, they will be viewed by specialized audiences. You may post a video on "iPhone user guide to 3.0" and the whole world won't watch it, but those that are interested in the topic will watch it. Also, friends usually watch friends videos. It's kind of like facebook or myspace; the whole world doesn't look at your page, but your friends do. Millions of videos are watched everyday; they don't need to be seen by tens of millions; that is what specialized markets are. People into basketball will watch basketball videos. People into golf will watch golf videos. And Pepsi and Coke can advertise on all of those videos. If people search for and view the amateur videos before the big media videos, then big media loses and Youtube still gets their advertising dollars from Pepsi and Coke.

[mrklaw]

this is very impressive. Mobile phones have shot video for years. Mobile phones could upload to youtube for quite some time now. Yet a relatively new mobile with not many out there (relative to the entire mobile market) has this impact.

Goes to show that

a) not many people actually know they can do this on their 'normal' mobile, which is a failure by other mobile companies

b) its difficult to do on other mobiles

c) apple execute really damn well. Its a simple thing, but for some unknown reason nobody else did it.

[mcmlxix]

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

That's one way of phrasing it. I would have said something like...oh great, the monkeys have gotten ahold of a new tech toy. Expect lots of screeching and flinging poo.

[WestonHarvey1]

That's one way of phrasing it. I would have said something like...oh great, the monkeys have gotten ahold of a new tech toy. Expect lots of screeching and flinging poo.

I'm reminded of the "Eternal September", or sometimes "Black Thursday", the day in 1993 when AOL linked its users to Usenet and the resulting flood of idiocy left the place forever changed.

Sure, YouTube was already full of idiots and worthless videos - but now its just *so* damned easy to get a video up there, vastly simpler than it already was... YouTube's Eternal September is now upon us.

[Beric]

Exactly what Youtube needs: more trashy videos. :rolleyes:

[newyorksole]

Apple truely is amazing. Many phones have had the ability to upload straight to YouTube for a long time. The iPhone is easy to use AND very popular.

[MrSmith]

More quality content for the 'net.

[iphones4evry1]

Mobile phones have shot video for years. Mobile phones could upload to youtube for quite some time now. Yet a relatively new mobile with not many out there (relative to the entire mobile market) has this impact.
Goes to show that
a) not many people actually know they can do this on their 'normal' mobile, which is a failure by other mobile companies
b) its difficult to do on other mobiles
c) apple execute really damn well. Its a simple thing, but for some unknown reason nobody else did it.

I had video on my RAZR several years ago, but I never knew how to upload it to my computer, more less send it through the wireless network. And the video shot on basic cell phones (Iran for example) provides decent quality too. I think the reason the iPhone has "changed the game" here is because of ease of use. There are so many things on the iPhone that are complex (for the average user) to figure out on other phones that are very easy to understand on the iPhone. Additionally, I think the unlimited data plan has something to do with this also. With other phones, if there is an emergency or breaking news, the few dollars (or whatever) that it costs to upload the video is insignificant, but when you have unlimited data, people start playing around with the thing and start uploading "testing 123" and stupid videos of their cats.

[DELLsFan]

Bandwidth problems sometime soon anyone? :D

No, of course not! AT&T is spending the money you pay them monthly to keep those pipes wide open and data flowing! Damn, I just LOVE that company!

[kockgunner]

Is that why YouTube has been crawling for the past few days?

Nah, it's pretty much been like that since they've had HD videos. Youtube is becoming crap now. It's no longer, "oh, I'll watch a few funny videos". You know something is wrong when it takes 5 minutes to load a 2 minute video, and you can't skip to the part you want since Youtube's scrubbing feature is messed up.

/rant

Apple is impacting every market they touch it's amazing. It proves that you don't need the best hardware, rather you need good software. There are many other phones with better video capture, but they don't have the one button simplicity to upload to Youtube like the 3GS. I hope we don't have a sudden surge of crappy videos though since all iPhone 3GS videos are tagged by Youtube and people will have something else to complain about the iPhone.

[.:R2theT]

How long before the AT&T network falls to its' knees and AT&T bans uploading of video to youtube?

Isn't that maybe why AT&T isn't ready with MMS and tethering? People on these forums talk as if AT&T/Apple are behind with some of this stuff, but what if everything was available right now? Wouldn't AT&T's network come crashing down?

[steamed.hams]

but what if everything was available right now? Wouldn't AT&T's network come crashing down?

How is that the user's fault? AT&T should invest in making their network stronger.

[Drag'nGT]

Good Lord! That's a huge jump. Could it be a coincidence? ;)

[-wiseguy-]

Yay, more crap videos!:cool:

[tabasco70]

thats great .. but now youtubes going to be flooded with mostly useless videos either demonstrating the 3Gs video feature, following their cat around the house, or something else.
uploading directly from mobile = not that good quality, cant really be edited
i dont know.

[Stargaze]

is anyone really surprised by that????

take the hottest phone on the market add the ability to take video with it then let them upload directly to youtube with no requirement of a PC?

its a pretty obivous outcome!!

[akac]

How is that the user's fault? AT&T should invest in making their network stronger.

Only when the user invests by paying even more...

[twoodcc]

wow, this is crazy! can't wait to get my iphone 3gs!

[Rich223]

AT&T fail....

Nice MMS option.

::Sigh:: It's only 2009, just give AT&T some time. We don't even know if this whole MMS thing will even catch on... MMS on the iPhone, you're silly.

>:-(

[bobertoq]

Yesssss, just what the internet needs: more homemade cat videos!!!!!Exactly what I was thinking.....

[Clark Gable]

oh sweet another iphone article. macrumors never posts about the iphone

[JohnnyLemonhead]

great. just what we need. millions of more videos of teenage girls singing, cats playing and toddlers throwing things. great.

[iphones4evry1]

Nah, it's pretty much been like that since they've had HD videos. Youtube is becoming crap now. .. You know something is wrong when it takes 5 minutes to load a 2 minute video..
If you watch the normal quality videos, Youtube works just fine. It is only slow if you insist on watching the HD videos. So, let me get this: Youtube didn't have HD before, then they add HD as an option and you have to wait longer for it load because it is an optional higher quality .. and now people complain? Sheesh! They should just remove the HD option and everyone will stop complaining then.

Isn't that maybe why AT&T isn't ready with MMS and tethering? People on these forums talk as if AT&T/Apple are behind with some of this stuff, but what if everything was available right now? Wouldn't AT&T's network come crashing down?

I believe the answer to your question lies here:

No, of course not! AT&T is spending the money you pay them monthly to keep those pipes wide open and data flowing! Damn, I just LOVE that company!

I think AT&T is finally now realizing that a public backlash is beginning to build steam. Especially, after the Apple WWDC, when Apple made it obvious that AT&T was their limiting factor in innovation and progress. People are complaining more and more, and I'm sure AT&T is reading this stuff. If AT&T doesn't directly read it, journalists often quote forums these days and it will get to AT&T that way. Eventually the backlash will become great enough that AT&T will begin to spend more money on the network if they want to prevent a critical mass of negative news and backlash on their lack of service. Personally, I have not seen a decrease in AT&T's network quality. I bought my iPhone3G back in August and since then AT&T has added millions of more iPhones and the network speed has ... okay, it has slowed slightly, it's noticeable but still small. I think if AT&T had not been continuously upgrading, then the network would be significantly slower. But it's not, which means they are doing something. Perhaps, not enough though. Hopefully, this will change as a result of WWDC and the public outcry. We will see. Apple's website says "MMS coming to AT&T by end the end of summer," and I'm hoping that this time AT&T will be ready. The biggest challenge: The iPhone 3GS can send video in MMS (example is on Apple's website).

[macshill]

5 iPhone stories in a row. Can we go for 6? :rolleyes: Not sure if people using the ability to take video and upload it to YT as page 1 news, but I guess someone felt it warrant. :apple:

I'll be asking for several iPod Touch stories when the newest version comes out.

[nickhutson]

Let's hope they (YouTube/Apple) fix the problem with the black bars even when filmed in landscape. Apple said the phone filmed in widescreen... doesn't look like it uploads in true widescreen...

Otherwise, it's a great feature. I think if and when Apple implement more advanced editing feature into the iPhone software (effects, splitting, etc), it will make it better!

[pika2000]

From the comments, I assume that it works via 3G? So AT&T banned the Sling apps, saying users cannot stream/sling videos. :rolleyes:

[Andrew K.]

WTB more Alaskan Malamute puppy videos!! :D

Cutest puppies on the face of the planet!

Is that like the puppy from the Proposal? PICS?

[AidenShaw]

I'm so happy that my browser has a "disable Flash" feature to keep Youtube out of my life.

[celtikmind]

YouTube quality hitting new points of low, down a gazillion %!! :p

[casmith07]

How is that the user's fault? AT&T should invest in making their network stronger.

The thing is, at this point, AT&T could afford to take a slight loss in expanding their network via upgraded towers and more towers in general. With the iPhone's sales and thus more contracted users, they'd make that money back by the time the next iPhone comes out in a year, just in time for even MORE subscribers.

At least that's what I'd look into, if I ran AT&T. Invest now for the future, especially if you plan on keeping your exclusive agreement!

[nastebu]

Why is everyone assuming that AT&T isn't spending a lot of money upgrading their network? Just because the result aren't instant doesn't mean the effort isn't there.

[drake]

I mark all articles on the iPhone "negative" on principle. They need to start another site, "iPod Rumors" and leave us Mac fans to ourselves.

[BulkHedd]

I think this could be interesting. Someone already mentioned the videos we saw from Iran but remember when the plane went into the Hudson River and the first photo of it came from an iPhone (http://twitpic.com/135xa).

Things like this are changing the way we get information. When a major event happens, before the news crews can even get there we will already have footage on YouTube.

Yes there will be more crappy videos but there will also be more important or interesting videos as well.

[newb16]

Brilliant - 400% more garbage that people will never watch.

So if it will lead only to 400% rise of (mobile!) upload and will not affect downloads at all, they can even put all this stuff on tapes and save on disk upgrades.

[iAlexG]

WOW. I wish I had a Iphone