Youtube in the Middle East – 2012

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Below is an infograph depicting the Youtube usage for Middle East in 2012. Some of the key highlights of the infograph are as follows: -

  • Two hours of content is uploaded on YouTube every minute the region,
  • Videos are viewed 260 million times a day in the region.
  • Run time for the clips increased on the site by 28% in 2012 v/s 2011.
  • Eight Arab countries to have local versions of the site, led by, in terms of operating times, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco, and the UAE.
  • 76% of users in Saudi Arabia watch videos using their mobile devices, while 35% have uploaded their own content.
  • In Egypt, 44% of Internet users, which forms over 30 million, are using YouTube on a daily basis.
  • More than 50% of the total users browse the videos “just for fun.”
  • In the UAE, more than 75% of participants in the survey, see YouTube as a suitable platform to communicate with other users.

The infograph was developed by DDArabia.

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Kapil Bhatia

Kapil is the Founder of TFOUR.ME. He has been in the Financial Services Industry past 13 years. His work ranges across e-Channels, Digital Marketing, Online Acquisition, Payments, and developing Online and Mobile Strategies, with a sound Information Technology base. He has been part of the blogging industry since 2007 and an established columnist writing on online business and technology for various publications in the region. Follow him on Twitter –

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