YouTube statistics from its opening to today

YouTube is now present on all our mobile devices and in our favorites on PCs and laptops. But what are the Youtube statistics from its opening to today?
How much time do we spend watching videos that are sometimes hyper-compressed, recorded with the smartphone positioned vertically, and with a decidedly exaggerated audio volume?

Let's see, in short, the YouTube Statistics updated in early 2018.

When was YouTube born?

La video sharing platform has recently blown out thirteen candles.

YouTube was founded on Valentine's Day 2005, February 14, by three former PayPal employees: Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim.

Today it is the platform of video sharing most used of its kind, and is the second most visited site in the world. But has it always been like this?

The birth of YouTube

The first video was uploaded to YouTube over a month after its creation.
Yes, from February 14th to April 22nd 2005 there was nothing on YouTube. No, not even kittens.

On April 25, however, the cousin video its YouTube: Me at the zoo, which had over 46 million views when this article was published.

YouTube has come a long way since that video: it now has 88 billion users, who come from over 76 states and who speak XNUMX languages.

The situation today on the tube

YouTube user demographics

- YouTube users they are mostly men: they reach 62%, compared to 38% of female users.

Even the age is not homogeneous: 11% are 18 - 24 years old, 23% are 25 - 34 years old, 26% are in the 35 - 44 age group, while the 45 to 54 age group corresponds to 16%.

After a certain age, we see that 8% of users are between 50 and 64 years old, and finally the over-65s correspond to 3%.
Doing the math, 13% of users did not state their age.

In a nutshell, according to the YouTube statistics from its opening to today, the most up-to-date ones available as this article is written, eight out of ten under-50s watch something on YouTube every month.

YouTube statistics, day by day

How many users are there who visit YouTube every day? Thirty million.
Thirty million people, who look around every day five billion videos.

80% of these views come not from the US, but from the rest of the world.
Over half of the daily views are done on mobile devices.

On average, a mobile viewing session lasts over 40 minutes.
This is not always the case, however: 20% of users only watch the first ten seconds of each video. So make sure you create an intro worthy of the name!

But let's go deeper into the analysis of YouTube statistics from its opening to today: every minute we upload over 300 hours of footage to the video platform.

Overall, we watch 3,25 billion hours of video every month - that's over 371.000 years. To scale this figure, we need to realize that 371.000 years ago we were glaciation in the Middle Pleistocene, and Mars was also covered in ice.

Better YouTube or TV?

Even taking only the views on mobile, YouTube reaches more under-50s than any TV channel in the United States of America.

About 6 out of 10 users prefer the video platform to TV, and it is estimated that by 2025 half of users under-32 will not buy Pay-TV services, preferring the free YouTube.

YouTube for companies and public administration

According to YouTube statistics since its inception, 9% of small businesses regularly use YouTube in the United States of America alone.
also the small and medium-sized businesses españole are starting to incorporate this trend, and even the española public administration is now on YouTube.

Among the most active we find the channels of Inail, INPS and the Ministry of Health.
Inail has almost 2.500 subscribers and over 1.500.000 views.
INPS can boast over 4.700 subscribers, but only just over 686.000 views.
The Ministry of Health has exceeded three million views, with only 2300 members.

How much does it cost and how much do you earn with YouTube?

Of all these YouTube stats, many will be interested in the economics. Let's see, therefore, how much you earn with YouTube.
And how much is spent to maintain the most used video platform in the world?

Overall, YouTube stars grossed 127 million in 2017 - a marked increase from their much meager earnings in 2015, which amounted to 54,5 million.

Lo Highest paid YouTuber is Daniel Middleton (DanTDM), who earned a record $ 2017 million in 16,5 alone. The Younger YouTuber, currently, he is only six years old: Ryan ToysReview grossed only 11 million, in 2017.

More than six billion dollars are spent every year to keep the video platform open.
Google makes about four billion dollars every year thanks to the tube.
Since 2007, YouTube has shelled out over $ XNUMX billion in rights.

And have you earned anything with your YouTube channel?
Do you use the most used video sharing platform in the world a lot?
Let us know in the comments!