This week, new impressive stats came out of Youtube. One of them was about how people now upload 48 hours of video every single minute to the online video giant. That is a lot indeed!

Love this comparisons they make on the official Youtube blog:

What can happen in two days, you ask?
- You could drive non-stop across the country from our office in San Bruno, Calif. to New York City
- You could undertake a massive movie marathon by watching the entire Back to the Future trilogy eight and a half times (we’d recommend you do that at YouTube Movies)
- An ambitious cheetah (the fastest land animal at an average running speed of 75 mph) starting in South Africa could traverse 3600 miles of the African continent and reach Egypt

Along with this, they also claim that Youtube now has 3 billion views… daily!

That’s the equivalent of nearly half the world’s population watching a YouTube video each day, or every U.S. resident watching at least nine videos a day.

But it’s all stats for Youtube, it’s about business news too. The New York Times reported this week new business plans for Youtube, namely a program called First Watch, where they’ll play pre-roll ads for first video seen by a user in a given day. Pre-roll ads aren’t always that popular, so we’ll see how this goes (already in testing by big name brands in the US).

Either way, those stats are huge milestones for the company that made online video what it is today.