I can't find any reputable source or even credible estimate about the total number of videos on YouTube.
What I did find, though, is that YouTube currently touts[1] "500+ hours of content uploaded every minute", which means 43.2 million minutes of video per day if we take that claim at face value.
And a study finding the average video length was 11.7 minutes[2] in 2018.
So, naively doing the math suggests that YouTube is currently adding ~3.7 million videos per day. Or another billion videos every 9 months.
Keep in mind this doesn't account for a ton of variables and the math is pretty hand wavy. But it's the closest thing I could do to a sanity check on the numbers in 5 minutes.
Conclusion: yeah there's way more than a billion videos on YouTube.
Fair enough - I literally just googled "how many videos on youtube" and stuck with the first result. Not very scientific but I also don't really care that much
What I did find, though, is that YouTube currently touts[1] "500+ hours of content uploaded every minute", which means 43.2 million minutes of video per day if we take that claim at face value.
And a study finding the average video length was 11.7 minutes[2] in 2018.
So, naively doing the math suggests that YouTube is currently adding ~3.7 million videos per day. Or another billion videos every 9 months.
Keep in mind this doesn't account for a ton of variables and the math is pretty hand wavy. But it's the closest thing I could do to a sanity check on the numbers in 5 minutes.
Conclusion: yeah there's way more than a billion videos on YouTube.
[1] https://blog.youtube/press/
[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1026923/youtube-video-ca...