YouTube Mobile Videos Rise Along With Apple iPhone 3G S Sales
The iPhone 3G S is the first version of Apple's popular smartphone with video recording and editing capabilities. Apple on Monday reported selling more than 1 million iPhone 3G S units in the first weekend they were made available.
YouTube has also tracked a 1700 percent increase in uploads from mobile phones in the past six months, blogged Dwipal Desai, a YouTube product manager and Mia Quagliarello, a community manager for the San Bruno, Calif.-based company, which is owned by Google.
"This growth represents three things coming together: new video-enabled phones on the market, improvements to the upload flow when you post a video to YouTube from your phone, and a new feature on YouTube that allows your videos to be quickly and effortlessly shared through your social networks," Desai and Quagliarello wrote Thursday.