When YouTube was launched in 2005, it was possible to upload longer videos, but a ten-minute limit was introduced in March 2006 after YouTube found that the majority of videos exceeding this length were unauthorized uploads of television shows and films.
In 2011, more than three billion videos were being watched each day with 48 hours of new videos uploaded every minute.
YouTube also released , a third app oriented towards streaming and discovering the music content hosted on the YouTube platform.