To start off this post, let's look at some statistics on how big YouTube has become. The following are some statistics released by the YouTube Press Department about their viewership:

• More than 1 billion unique users visit YouTube each month
• Over 6 billion hours of video are watched each month on YouTube—that's almost an hour for every person on Earth, and 50% more than last year
• 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute