YouTube Has an Estimated 13.3 Billion Videos

 


How many videos are uploaded to YouTube? Google itself has never shared these statistics but according to a study by five researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, there are at least 13.3 billion at this point.



Researchers noticed that there are 11 digits behind the URL of every YouTube video which gives 18.4 quintillion possible URL combinations. Through a random sampling technique, it is estimated that there are 13.3 billion publicly viewable videos on YouTube. The exact actual figure may be impossible to guess because there are many videos that are personalized or saved in the draft.


Researchers also estimate that 2023 will record the highest number of video uploads in history. Even though there are billions of videos, on average each video on YouTube receives only 36 views. The methodology and this research paper have been published in the Journal of Quantitative Description: Digita Media.

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