Interesting Facts About Youtube - BESTSEO-SERVICES

Ever wondered how many hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every 10 seconds? Or how many billions and billions of hours of cat videos, how-tos, music videos, beauty tutorials, and unboxings we watch every month? YouTube is an amazing space and so generates some incredible stats - we bring you 33 of them below. All statistics and facts are correct at time of writing, we will of course update and add when things change. Enjoy!

YouTube: The Big Big Numbers

  • We watch 6 Billion hours of video on YouTube every month
  • 1 Billion people across the world use YouTube every month
  • YouTube (top Google Video Site) had 153 million unique U.S. viewers in July 2014
  • 300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute
  • 1 hour of video is uploaded to YouTube EVERY SECOND!
33 Amazing YouTube Facts & Stats to Tweet & Share [Updated]

Location Location Location: YouTube Around the World

  • 80% of YouTube traffic comes from outside the US
  • YouTube is localized in 61 countries and across 61 languages
  • There are 60 million users in China
  • 90 million views from Saudi Arabia are generated every day
  • Japan has nearly six million YouTube users, 50% of all Japanese Internet users
33 Amazing YouTube Facts & Stats to Tweet & Share [Updated]

Creator Superstars and Viral Video Successes

  • 'Music' is the most subscribed to YouTube channel with 87 million subscribers
  • EMIMusic's YouTube channel has the most views with 6.3 billion
  • Psy's "Gangnam Style" is the most watched YouTube video ever with nearly 2.1 billion views
  • As of 3rd September 2014, Pewdiepie is the most subscribed to non-YouTube channel with 30.3 million subscribers
  • Shakira’s and Activia’s ‘La La La’ Now Most Shared Video Ad Ever

Who is Watching YouTube?

  • More U.S. Based 18-34 Year-olds Watch YouTube Than Cable
  • 68% of U.S. Viewers Choose YouTube to Watch Online Video
  • More than a third of all YouTube view time is for videos that are 20 minutes long

Money Money Money

  • More than a 1 million creators from over 30 countries are earning money from their YouTube videos
  • 75% of YouTube in-stream ads are now skippable
  • Advertisers were estimated to have spent $5.60 billion on YouTube in 2013
  • YouTube videos influence the purchasing decisions of 53% of all consumers in the U.S
  • Major brands only generate 3% of the 14.9 billion beauty-related video views on YouTube.
33 Amazing YouTube Facts & Stats to Tweet & Share [Updated]

Mobile and Second Screen

  • 50% of YouTube's views come from mobile devices
  • 27% of US viewers access YouTube on their smartphones
  • 42% of YouTube viewing on mobile is via Android devices

Nuts, Bolts and Miscellany

  • Content ID scans over 400 years worth of video every day
  • ContentID scans 146,000 hours worth of video every minute
  • More than 5,000 partners use Content ID, including major US network broadcasters, movie studios and record labels
  • 80% of YouTube viewers who choose to read closed captions are not hard of hearing
  • YouTube started life as a dating site called 'Tune In, Hook Up'
  • 700 tweets per minute contain a YouTube link
  • 97% of U.S. charities and nonprofits in the U.S. are active on YouTube.

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