Looks like 3GS owners can't keep their fingers off their new video record feature.

According to YouTube, iPhone users were responsible for more than half of the mobile uploads to the site last week. When you take into account that YT is the world's biggest user-generated video site, that's pretty huge.

Uploads of mobile phone vids are up 400 percent per day since last Friday, when the new iPhone was released. And actually, cell phones in general are becoming a major vehicle for the website. In the last six months, uploads from cell phones have increased 1,700 percent.


Chris Pirillo, reviewing the iPhone 3GS in a vid shot and uploaded by iPhone 3GS. (Check out Noah's unboxing of the 3GS, or his latest dogfight between the 3GS and the 3G.)



YT might have some difficulty figuring out what to do with all those numbers. Vids created by content partners that attract thousands of views are easy to monetize with ads. That capture of a pet hamster sleeping? Well, not so much. (At least, not unless the vid has gone viral. But that would have to be one really frickin? hilarious hamster.)

Personally, I?m hoping that the new throngs of vid-enabled people will do great things for citizen journalism. When the ?Neda death? vid showed up, people got a sad dose of reality watching a young Iranian woman's murder during a presidential-election protest. The clip aired all over the world and rallied people to the cause like never before.

Score: YT/mobile technology 1, Iranian regime 0.

[via NewTeeVee]