12 Things you must know about Youtube

Product

1. YouTube has more than 1 billion users
2. Every day people watch hundreds of millions of hours on YouTube and generate billions of views
3. The number of hours people are watching on YouTube each month is up 50% year over year
4. 300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute
5. ~60% of a creator’s views comes from outside their home country
6. YouTube is localized in 75 countries and available in 61 languages
7. Half of YouTube views are on mobile devices
8. Mobile revenue on YouTube is up over 100% y/y

Advertising

1. More than a million advertisers are using Google ad platforms, the majority of which are small businesses
2. 85% of our TrueView in-stream ads are skippable
3. Google Preferred has been a huge success - we’ve secured upfront commitments from many of the top agencies including OMG, Digitas, IPG, Carat and SMG, and sold out the majority of our product offering
4. Top YouTube creators were found to be more popular than mainstream celebrities among U.S. teenagers (Variety)

Source : Youtube.

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