YouTube Statistics. Great Scott! Over 35 Hours of Video Uploaded Every Minute to YouTube. Thanks, YouTube community, for two BIG gifts on our sixth birthday! Broadcast Yourself. "Bed Intruder" Was Most-Watched Independent YouTube Video of 2010. Now at more than 47.5 million views, Auto-Tune the News's "Bed Intruder Song" is officially the year's most-watched, non-major label video on YouTube. The video-sharing site just released the list of its most popular videos of 2010, and it includes some of our favorite viral vids (as well as those that are finalists for Mashable Awards).
In all, people watched more than 700 billion YouTube videos and uploaded more than 13 million hours of footage, YouTube's community manager Mia Quagliarello wrote in a blog post Sunday. The site's list was created by taking into account the number of views each video racked up, as well as totals from multiple versions of the same video. Not too many surprises here. Without further ado, here's what the world watched in 2010. Most-watched videos globally, excluding major label music videos: Most-watched major label music videos: