How many hours of YouTube are watched each day?

Internet hard Data from 2023

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Answer in hours. Shorthand like 9m or 1.2bn works.

The answer

1,000,000,000 hours

Roughly 1B.

People watch over a billion hours of YouTube a day — more than 114,000 years of video, every day. YouTube is the second most visited website in the world after Google, which owns it.

Where this number comes from

Source YouTube press materials
Figure refers to 2023
Last checked
Unit hours

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