On YouTube's 20th Anniversary, the Platform Says Over 20 Trillion Videos Have Been Uploaded (hollywoodreporter.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/04/23/1457232/on-youtubes-20th-anniversary-the-platform-says-over-20-trillion-videos-have-been-uploaded
- Source link: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/youtube-new-data-20th-anniversary-1236197999/
> The video behemoth dropped a number of jaw-dropping stats Wednesday, along with significant updates to its TV experience, which has become a strategic priority for the platform, all connected to its anniversary. YouTube says that as of March 2025, more than 20 million videos are uploaded every single day, and that in 2024 users posted more than 100 million comments on videos, on average, every day.
[1] https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/youtube-new-data-20th-anniversary-1236197999/
Celebrating via glitch? (Score:1)
I notice Youtube hogs a lot more CPU than normal in Firefox of late. Anyone else? Putting the video in "wide" mode helps some.
They failed to mention... (Score:2)
Their report failed to mention that well over 19 trillion of those videos are pretty much crap.
Re: (Score:2)
Sturgeon's Law comes knocking for every platform in the long run.
Naaah. Numbers don't add up. (Score:3)
20 trillion videos uploaded in 20 years is a trillion a year, or about 2.74 billion per day. However, the article says that only 20 million are uploaded per day. Over 20 years, that's about 146 billion... but I assume upload pace has increased over time, so I reckon the true number is 20 billion and not 20 trillion.
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They're probably counting deletions and videos that were immediately flagged for copyrights.
And they continue to demonstrate ... (Score:2)
... their commitment to slapping customers in the face with wet fish (or "ads" as you Americans like to call them).
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Nothing is free. Watch the ads or pay the $14/month for premium. I do, and it's the best $14 I spend every month. I can't remember the last time I watched anything on TV or streaming as mainstream media is currently producing nothing that interests me in any way.
Andy Warhol Was Right (Score:2)
Great tune, BTW.
Stories like this are celebratory in spirit, but in a way it's a sad statistic on where we've focused so much of our time and energy. Most of Youtube is glorious indulgence in stupidity and echo-chamber reinforcement. The stupidity is the less egregious of the two. I'm all for stupid entertainment. I grew up watching Three Stooges for cryin' out loud, and nobody's going to say that's smart entertainment. But everybody clamoring for their fifteen minutes is creating a massive flood of echo-ch
As many as that? (Score:2)
They must be counting all the scam ads and AI slop.
And yet (Score:2)
And yet, there's nothing to watch!
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> And yet, there's nothing to watch!
Can't say that over here. Youtube might actually be the most watched streaming service in this house. Partly because I love retro-gaming, partly because I have a kid and there's a metric-shit-ton of decent programming for them, and partly because of things like wanting to watch one segment of SNL and not the whole show.
I ain't interested in selling anybody on the service but, come on let's be real, the only thing Youtube is short on is porn.