Share of videos removed from YouTube worldwide Q4 2020, by reason

Published by H. Tankovska, Mar 8, 2021

During fourth quarter of 2020, 15.5 percent of videos removed from YouTube were deleted due to being spam, or misleading scams. Another 41 percent of flagged videos were removed due to child safety reasons. Only 0.8 percent of removed videos were eliminated due to cyber bullying and harassment.

Distribution of videos removed from YouTube worldwide from 2nd quarter 2019 to 4th quarter 2020, by reason

Characteristic	Spam, misleading and scams	Child safety	Nudity or sexual	Violent or graphic	Harmful or dangerous	Promotion of violence and violent extremism	Hateful or abusive	Other	Harassment and cyberbullying
Q4 2020	15.5%	41%	15.8%	20.6%	2.8%	0.8%	1%	1.7%	0.8%
Q3 2020	25.5%	31.7%	20%	14.2%	2.5%	2.5%	1.1%	1.9%	0.6%
Q2 2020	28.3%	33.5%	14.6%	10.6%	1.8%	8.1%	0.7%	1.5%	0.9%
Q1 2020	37%	24.3%	14.3%	11.4%	5%	4.2%	1.8%	1.4%	0.6%
Q4 2019	52%	15.8%	14.1%	9.8%	3.1%	1.4%	1.5%	1.7%	0.6%
Q3 2019	54.4%	9.7%	14.4%	15.5%	1.7%	1%	0.9%	1.9%	0.5%
Q2 2019	66.7%	8.4%	14.8%	5.2%	1.1%	0.8%	1.2%	1.3%	0.4%
Q1 2019	60.2%	9.7%	20.5%	4.3%	0.8%	1.1%	0.2%	2.6%	0.6%

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March 2021

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Q1 2019 to Q4 2020

Supplementary notes

"These removal reasons correspond to YouTube’s Community Guidelines. Reviewers evaluate flagged videos against all of our Community Guidelines and policies, regardless of the reason the video was originally flagged."

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