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In this “By the Numbers” statistic post, we take a look at some statistics and facts about YouTube, the world’s largest video network.

YouTube is a true American success story. It began as the brainchild of Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim: three PayPal employees that wanted to create a platform where users could post and share video clips. As a startup, YouTube attracted users and funding fairly quickly and was snatched up by the almighty Google roughly a year and a half after it was launched for $1.65 billion.

When a social network has over a billion users that spend amazing amounts of time on it daily, there is no shortage of aspects of and facts about YouTube that can be measured and reported. I have been collecting YouTube stats and facts for about 6 years now in this curated collection. Below is a lengthy sampling of what I have put together over the years and if you like what you see, you can purchase the entire downloadable report at the bottom of this post. As always, I will be adding to and updating these stats as often as they are made available.

YouTube Facts

Website: youtube.com
Release date: 2005
Headquarters: San Bruno, Ca
Parent company: Google/Alphabet
YouTube founders: Jawed Karim, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen
CEO: Susan Wojcicki

YouTube Stats

How many YouTube users are there?

1.8 billion logged-in monthly users

Last updated 5/4/18

How many people in the US watch YouTube?

180.1 million

Last updated 1/27/17

Number of countries YouTube has users in:

90 countries

Last updated 11/29/17

Amount of content YouTube users watch annually:

46,000 years worth of content

Last updated 10/9/16

Percentage of YouTube traffic from mobile:

70%

Last updated 2/27/17

YouTube overall reaches more 18-34 and 18-49 year-olds than any cable network in the U.S.

Average amount of video content watched on YouTube daily:

1 billion hours per day

Last updated 2/27/17

Average time spent on YouTube per session:

40 minutes

Last updated 10/3/16

How many YouTube videos are uploaded every minute?

400 hours worth

Last updated 11/5/17

How many YouTube videos are uploaded every day?

576,000 hours worth

Last updated 11/5/17

Number of YouTube channels with more than 1 million subscribers:

1,500

Last updated 2/3/16

Percentage of US Internet users, aged 13-17 (teens) that use YouTube:

85%

Last updated 5/31/18

Percentage of US enterprise companies that use YouTube:

61%

Last updated 7/13/16

Type of YouTube content most preferred by Millennials:

Videos uploaded by people

How many YouTube video views that come from mobile devices:

more than 50%

Last updated 10/3/16

Average amount of time YouTube logged-in users spend watching on mobile daily:

more than one hour per day

Last updated 6/22/17

Number of signals YouTube users have created over time:

80 billion

Last updated 6/20/17

What is the most-viewed YouTube video ever?

Despacito w/over 5 billion views

Last updated 4/6/18

How many people in India watch YouTube?

245 monthly active users

Last updated 8/28/18

Percentage of US millennials that visit YouTube daily:

54%

Last updated 1/6/17

YouTube makes up over half of people’s time watching online video on television.

Last updated 9/1/16

Percentage of US teen boys (aged 13-17) that use YouTube daily:

85%

Last updated May 2017

Percentage of US teen girls (aged 13-17) that use YouTube daily:

70%

Last updated May 2017

Estimated amount that US YouTube creators earned in 2016:

$3.2 billion

Number of weekly active YouTube Kids viewers:

8 million

Last updated 2/13/17

Number of revenue-earning YouTube users in the US:

1.8 million

Last updated 2/1/18

Video with the most YouTube views in its first 24 hours:

Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do” (43.2 million views)

Last updated 8/29/17

Number of markets that YouTube TV is available in:

100 markets

Last updated 3/12/18

Number of people that use the YouTube TV app:

300,000

Last updated 3/12/18

Amount Google paid in 2006 to purchase YouTube:

$1.65 billion

How many videos on YouTube are captioned:

1 billion

Last updated 2/16/17

Number of people that watch gaming videos and streams on YouTube each day:

200 million

Last updated 9/18/18

Get the Full Report

This report contains all of the YouTube stats I have been able to dig up over the years. This report is a digital collection of every YouTube statistic I have curated over the years as of September 2018. 160+ of them including stats for:

User Totals
Demographics
Video Stats
Mobile Stats
Advertising and Revenue Stats
Etc.- all in one place

I try to go through each and every stat regularly and update as much as possible, but we all know that some stats are easier to track down than others. As always, every stat is linked to its original source and has the source date listed.

To get your copy of this YouTube statistic report, click on the button below to purchase it.

or get it in one of my report bundles:

Bundle 1: Google Product report bundle (Android, Google, YouTube).

Bundle 2: Billion users club digital report bundle (Android, Apple, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Google, Instagram, Microsoft, Whatsapp, YouTube).

Bundle 3: Video Streaming Service Report Bundle (Netflix, Amazon Prime, YouTube, Roku, Hulu)

Bundle 4: Social Media Report Bundle (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Reddit, YouTube)