YouTube's managers have revealed that the amount of video content uploaded to the Google-owned website has grown ten-fold since 2007. The social video-sharing website now receives 60 hours of uploads per minute.

Writing in a blog post, YouTube managers claimed “Since the dawn of YouTube, we’ve been sharing the hours of video you upload every minute. In 2007 we started at six hours, then in 2010 we were at 24 hours, then 35, then 48, and now...60 hours of video every minute, an increase of more than 30 percent in the last eight months. In other words, you’re uploading one hour of video to YouTube every second.”

In an attempt to visualise the volume of content uploaded to YouTube, Google has built a new website called onehourpersecond.com.

The blog post also claimed that users were “watching more as well; we’ve now exceeded four billion video views globally every day. That’s up 25 per cent in the last eight months and the equivalent of more than half the world’s population watching a video every day.” According to YouTube the numbers are continuing to grow.

YouTube redesigned its home page late last year to emphasise its full-length movies and social network credentials.The video-sharing site has 800 million viewers a month and this number is growing every day.