• Music Ally, Thursday, June 25, 2009 1:15 PM

YouTube video uploads from mobile phones have increased by 400% since last Friday, when the new iPhone 3GS went on sale, Music Ally reports. The new mobile device from Apple lets users shoot videos and upload them directly to Google's video sharing site. The increase is part of a wider industry trend, as mobile uploads to YouTube have grown by 1,700% in the past six months, according to Google.

Music Ally attributes this growth to three things: new video-enabled smartphones, improvements that make it easier to post videos to YouTube from your phone, and a new feature that makes it easier to share YouTube videos through social networks like Facebook and Twitter. It takes just a minute to connect a YouTube account to Facebook, Twitter, or Google Reader, for example.

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