--- title: "How many hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute? " description: "500 hours a minute — about 720,000 hours a day How the figure is estimated, how confident it is, and what makes the scale graspable." url: https://atoneplace.net/how-many/video-uploaded-a-day/ site: "At One Place" --- # 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?](https://atoneplace.net/how-many/babies-born-a-day/) — about 360,000 — roughly four every second - [How many people die each day?](https://atoneplace.net/how-many/deaths-a-day/) — about 170,000 — roughly two every second - [How many Google searches are made every day?](https://atoneplace.net/how-many/searches-made-a-day/) — roughly 8.5 billion — about 100,000 a second - [How many emails are sent every day?](https://atoneplace.net/how-many/emails-sent-a-day/) — about 360 billion - [How many times does your heart beat in a lifetime?](https://atoneplace.net/how-many/heartbeats-in-a-lifetime/) — about 2.5 billion - [How many cups of coffee are drunk every day?](https://atoneplace.net/how-many/coffee-drunk-a-day/) — roughly 2.5 billion - [How many photos are taken every day?](https://atoneplace.net/how-many/photos-taken-a-day/) — roughly 5 billion a day — about 2 trillion a year - [How many steps do you take in a lifetime?](https://atoneplace.net/how-many/steps-in-a-lifetime/) — roughly 150 million — about 110,000 km - [How many pizzas are sold every day?](https://atoneplace.net/how-many/pizzas-sold-a-day/) — somewhere between 3 and 8 million a day in the United States - [How many words do we speak a day?](https://atoneplace.net/how-many/words-spoken-a-day/) — about 16,000 - [How many breaths do you take in a lifetime?](https://atoneplace.net/how-many/breaths-in-a-lifetime/) — about 600 million - [How many messages are sent every day?](https://atoneplace.net/how-many/whatsapp-messages-a-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?](https://atoneplace.net/how-many/babies-born-a-day/) - [How many people die each day?](https://atoneplace.net/how-many/deaths-a-day/) - [How many Google searches are made every day?](https://atoneplace.net/how-many/searches-made-a-day/) - [How many emails are sent every day?](https://atoneplace.net/how-many/emails-sent-a-day/) - [How many times does your heart beat in a lifetime?](https://atoneplace.net/how-many/heartbeats-in-a-lifetime/) - [How many cups of coffee are drunk every day?](https://atoneplace.net/how-many/coffee-drunk-a-day/) - [How many photos are taken every day?](https://atoneplace.net/how-many/photos-taken-a-day/) - [How many steps do you take in a lifetime?](https://atoneplace.net/how-many/steps-in-a-lifetime/) - [How many people are there in the world?](https://atoneplace.net/how-many/people-alive-right-now/) - [How many stars are there in the universe?](https://atoneplace.net/how-many/stars-in-the-universe/) - [How many countries are there in the world?](https://atoneplace.net/how-many/countries/) - [How many bones are in the human body?](https://atoneplace.net/how-many/bones-in-the-human-body/) - [How many grains of sand are there on Earth?](https://atoneplace.net/how-many/grains-of-sand-on-earth/) - [How many ants are there in the world?](https://atoneplace.net/how-many/ants-on-earth/) ## Sources - Official vendor product documentation — At One Place (/about/)