YouTube’s Upload Limit has been Increased to 15 minutes

Posted by on Jul 30, 2010 in Google, Social Networks | 0 comments

YouTube, a popular video-sharing website, has just increased its upload limit to 15 minutes for all users. Prior to this increase, YouTube’s upload limit was only 10 minutes.

With this, YouTube users around the world are asked to upload a 15-minute video and tag it with “yt15minutes”. The video should be uploaded on August 4, 2010 (Wednesday). Some of those videos will be featured on the homepage giving them their own 15 minutes of fame. ;)

I guess you’re wondering why is the upload limit increased only now. This is because they’ve spent a lot of time with the creation of the Content ID.

This Content ID will actually address the copyright infringement issues that have been plaguing YouTube. The Content ID is comprised of the Audio ID and the Video ID. This will let the content owners identify the uploaded videos that are comprised entirely or partially of their content. Then, the content owners will have the option to either make money from them, get statistics on those videos or have them blocked on YouTube.

[via the YouTube Blog]

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