As of June 2022, more than 500 hours of video were uploaded to YouTube every minute. This equates to approximately 30,000 hours of newly uploaded content per hour. The amount of content on YouTube has increased dramatically as consumer’s appetites for online video has grown. In fact, the number of video content hours uploaded every 60 seconds grew by around 40 percent between 2014 and 2020.
YouTube global users
Online video is one of the most popular digital activities worldwide, with 27 percent of internet users worldwide watching more than 17 hours of online videos on a weekly basis in 2023. It was estimated that in 2023 YouTube would reach approximately 900 million users worldwide. In 2022, the video platform was one of the leading media and entertainment brands worldwide, with a value of more than 86 billion U.S. dollars.
YouTube video content consumption
The most viewed YouTube channels of all time have racked up billions of viewers, millions of subscribers and cover a wide variety of topics ranging from music to cosmetics. The YouTube channel owner with the most video views is Indian music label T-Series, which counted 217.25 billion lifetime views. Other popular YouTubers are gaming personalities such as PewDiePie, DanTDM and Markiplier.
Hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute as of February 2022
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