How many hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute?
How many hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute?
500 hours a minute — about 720,000 hours a day
One day's uploads would take a single person 82 years to watch without sleeping. You could not watch one day of YouTube uploads in a lifetime.
YouTube has stated that around 500 hours of video are uploaded every minute, which is 30,000 hours an hour and roughly 720,000 hours a day. The figure comes from YouTube itself and has not been formally updated in several years, so it is a floor rather than a current measurement. It also excludes TikTok, Instagram and every other platform. Short-form video has since shifted the mix enormously: far more clips, far fewer hours each.
How the figure is arrived at
Reported by the platform from its own ingest logs, so it is a measurement rather than an estimate — but a measurement only the platform can make, and one it has no obligation to keep publishing. Independent verification is not possible.
How confident it is
- Low estimate
- 700,000
- High estimate
- 900,000
- Spread
- 1.3× between the bounds
Other every day counts
- How many babies are born each day? about 360,000 — roughly four every second
- How many people die each day? about 170,000 — roughly two every second
- How many Google searches are made every day? roughly 8.5 billion — about 100,000 a second
- How many emails are sent every day? about 360 billion
- How many times does your heart beat in a lifetime? about 2.5 billion
- How many cups of coffee are drunk every day? roughly 2.5 billion
- How many photos are taken every day? roughly 5 billion a day — about 2 trillion a year
- How many steps do you take in a lifetime? roughly 150 million — about 110,000 km
- How many pizzas are sold every day? somewhere between 3 and 8 million a day in the United States
- How many words do we speak a day? about 16,000
- How many breaths do you take in a lifetime? about 600 million
- How many messages are sent every day? about 100 billion on WhatsApp alone
Common questions
- How many hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute?
- 500 hours a minute — about 720,000 hours a day
- How is that estimated?
- Reported by the platform from its own ingest logs, so it is a measurement rather than an estimate — but a measurement only the platform can make, and one it has no obligation to keep publishing. Independent verification is not possible.
Related pages
- How many babies are born each day? about 360,000 — roughly four every second
- How many people die each day? about 170,000 — roughly two every second
- How many Google searches are made every day? roughly 8.5 billion — about 100,000 a second
- How many emails are sent every day? about 360 billion
- How many times does your heart beat in a lifetime? about 2.5 billion
- How many cups of coffee are drunk every day? roughly 2.5 billion
- How many photos are taken every day? roughly 5 billion a day — about 2 trillion a year
- How many steps do you take in a lifetime? roughly 150 million — about 110,000 km
- How many people are there in the world? Living things and the natural world
- How many stars are there in the universe? Space and the universe
- How many countries are there in the world? Things people built
- How many bones are in the human body? The human body
- How many grains of sand are there on Earth? Living things and the natural world
- How many ants are there in the world? Living things and the natural world
Sources
- Official vendor product documentation — At One Place