Nobody would have thought of the level of influence that YouTube would be having in our lives so quickly. It has quickly become an integral part of the daily lives of people and the sheer variety of content on YouTube is just staggering! From tech videos to news, from tutorials to whole class lessons, Youtube’s single handedly become the biggest and most viewed website for videos on the internet!
The statistics that will be shown just show how much we use YouTube for pleasure and for leisure! This might be a good thing but at the same time could very well be an addiction something that many people need to be aware of!
- 2 billion monthly active YouTube users
- 73% of US adults use YouTube
- YouTube the most-downloaded iOS app in 2018
- As of December 2018, YouTube installed on 5 billion Android devices
- One billion hours of YouTube content viewed per day
- 500 hours of content uploaded to YouTube every minute
- 250 million hours of YouTube viewed per day on TV screens
- Youtube’s localised to 91 countries, and accessible in 80 different languages
- “Despacito” most-viewed video on YouTube, with over 6 billion views
- First video to 1 million views was a Nike ad featuring footballer Ronaldinho
- First video to 1 billion views was Psy’s “Gangnam Style”
- Fastest video to 1 billion views was Adele’s “Hello” (87.4 days)
- Most-viewed video over 24 hours is “Boy with Luv” by BTS and Haley (78 million views)
- T-Series most-subscribed YouTube channel (105 million in July 2019)
- T-Series also most-viewed YouTube channel (70 billion views in May 2019)
- ‘Song’ is the most-commonly searched term on YouTube – by a factor of 1.7 (4.2 if we discount number two search term, ‘songs’)
- JuegaGerman is the most-subscribed YouTube gaming channel (35.1 million)
- Minecraft is the most-uploaded game to YouTube
- Top-10 YouTube channels earned $180.5 billion between June 2017 and June 2018
- Ryan Kaji of Ryan ToysReview top YouTube earner in 2018, making $22 million
- 50 YouTube Original series viewed 2.5 billion times over 2018
- 47% of on-demand music streaming takes place on YouTube
- YouTube Premium Music counts an estimated 15 million users
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This goes to show the influence that YouTube has in our daily lives! The daily updates of videos makes YouTube a habit rather than a past time pleasure. Categorizing it among the age group further improves the suggestions people recieve and increases the time they spend watching videos on YouTube.
