Rise of the Beat Reporter/Videographer

Thursday, June 25, 2009

YouTube is reporting that in the first week since the introduction of the new IPhone 3GS mobile uploads to the site have increased 400%.  Over the last six months - a 1700% increase in users uploading content from video-enabled smartphones.

From TechCrunch:

The implications for this are huge. Lowering the barrier to uploading a video will probably result in an increase in the silly user-generated content that litters YouTube, but it will also streamline the uploading of more significant videos. As our commenters point out, an increase in mobile uploads could very well spur the ‘iReporter’ movement, as citizens upload video taken at the scene of a newsworthy event as soon as it happens (we need look no further than the protesting and tragedies in Iran for examples).