Latest "Wow" Stats on UGC and YouTube

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  • Every day, 150 years worth of videos are watched on Facebook.
  • Every minute, more than 400 Tweets contain a YouTube link.
  • Every minute, 36 hours of new video are uploaded onto YouTube.
  • More video is uploaded on YouTube in 60 days than the three major US TV networks created in 60 years.
  • More than 70% of YouTube traffic comes from outside the U.S.
  • YouTube has localized sites in 25 countries, using 43 languages
  • Last year, 55 million people around the world watched IPL (Indian Premiere League) cricket live on YouTube
  • Google's speech recognition.software can translate YouTube videos and create captions in 51 languages
  • There are more than 7000 hours of full-length entertainment films and shows on YouTube.
  • As of February 2011, YouTube had 490 million unique users worldwide, who rack up about 92 billion pageviews and 2.9 billion hours of viewing a month.