Over 800 million unique users visit YouTube each month
Over 4 billion hours of video are watched each month on YouTube
72 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute
70% of YouTube traffic comes from outside the US
YouTube is localized in 43 countries and across 60 languages
In 2011, YouTube had more than 1 trillion views or around 140 views for every person on Earth
Millions of subscriptions happen each day. Subscriptions allow you to connect with someone you're interested in — whether it's a friend, or the NBA — and keep up on their activity on the site
YouTube Partner Program
Created in 2007, we now have more than a million partners from 27 countries around the world
Monetization
Thousands of advertisers are using TrueView in-stream and 60% of our in-stream ads are now skippable
We have more than a million advertisers using Google ad platforms, the majority of which are small businesses
Mobile and Devices
Traffic from mobile devices tripled in 2011
More than 20% of global YouTube views come from mobile devices
3 hours of video is uploaded per minute to YouTube from mobile devices
YouTube is available on 350 million devices
Content ID
Content ID scans over 100 years of video every day
More than 3,000 partners use Content ID, including every major US network broadcaster, movie studio and record label
We have more than eight million reference files (over 500,000 hours of material) in our Content ID database; it's among the most comprehensive in the world. The number has doubled in the last year
Over a third of YouTube's total monetized views come from Content ID
More than 120 million videos have been claimed by Content ID
Social
500 years of YouTube video are watched every day on Facebook, and over 700 YouTube videos are shared on Twitter each minute
100 million people take a social action on YouTube (likes, shares, comments, etc) every week
More than 50% of videos on YouTube have been rated or include comments from the community
Millions of videos are favorited every day
Clicks on the ‘like’ or ‘dislike’ button on YouTube have doubled since the start of 2011. For every ‘dislike,’ we get 10 ‘likes’- people like to tell other people about the stuff they love.