Friday, June 26, 2009
YouTube Mobile Uploads Up 400% Since 3GS Launch
Posted by Vincent Ferrari in "Apple iPhone & iPod Touch" @ 01:00 PM
"iPhone owners are certainly a multimedia-aware bunch. Less than a year after the original iPhone’s release, it had already become the most popular cameraphone on photo-sharing site Flickr, and that lead has only continued to grow with two subsequent, more affordable iterations. Furthermore, it appears that the impact of the newly-released iPhone 3GS on video may be no less profound. In a post on the YouTube blog product manager Dwipal Desai and community manager Mia Quagliarello say that the number of videos uploaded to the sharing site from mobile phones has jumped 400 percent a day since the iPhone 3GS’s release last Friday."
It's never a bad time to share a cat video!
Anyway, how insane is that? 400%? This proves what people following the industry (and paying attention) have known for a long time. It isn't just about having a feature on a phone. It's about having a feature and making it so brain dead simple that people are inclined to use it. Lots of phones are capable of uploading to YouTube (hell, every phone with an e-mail address set up on it is capable) but because the iPhone 3GS makes it so easy, it's actually being used.
Granted a lot of these videos are probably "test" videos, but considering the iPhone's popularity, I'm not sure this is just going to suddenly end. What about you, oh faithful readers? Flash in the pan or sign of a trend?
