Mashable reported it official as of July 30th, 2010. The expanded time limit will probably bring a few things, such as videos that are even more boring/annoying at 15 minutes. On the positive side, with a lot of tutorial/informational videos, you’ll only have to watch one 15 minute video, versus two 7 minute videos.
Here is a snippet from the official YouTube Blog:
We want YouTube to be the best place to upload video. Without question, the number one requested feature by our creators is to upload videos longer than 10 minutes. We’ve heard you, and today we’re pleased to announce that we’ve increased the upload limit to 15 minutes.
In the meantime, you may wonder “why now?” — the upload limit for non-partners has been 10 minutes for years. Well, we’ve spent significant resources on creating and improving our state-of-the-art Content ID system and many other powerful tools for copyright owners.
There will be plenty of pros and cons to this new time limit, but I don’t see it really affecting our videos here at 12 Stars at all, considering most of our videos are under 3 minutes. Though, as far as watching videos, here is one that we could easily watch for 15 minutes:
How will this change affect you? Leave your answer in the comments!
