> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.hypebot.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # YouTube By The Numbers: 1 Day, 300,000 New Videos + More Surprising Stats - URL: https://www.hypebot.com/a-day-in-the-life-of-youtube/ - Published: 2016-12-09T11:30:00.000Z - Updated: 2016-12-09T11:30:00.000Z - Description: A new look by Pexeso at a day in the life of YouTube has revealed some interesting numbers. It seems music has drifted out of the spotlight somewhat, now coming in at fourth place behind. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2016/12/a-day-in-the-life-of-youtube.html] - Author: Guest Author - Tags: Music Business, YouTube & Video, Google, iTunes, List of YouTubers, music video, PewDiePie, record label, Subscription business model, Video blog, YouTube, Zoe Keating, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:13 [![2](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201bb095d5f22970d-150wi "2")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201bb095d5f22970d-popup?ref=hypebot.com)A new look by Pexeso at a **day in the life of YouTube** has revealed some **interesting numbers**. It seems music has drifted out of the spotlight somewhat, now coming in at **fourth place** behind things like **gaming** and **blogs**. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ *[![YouTube-icon-full_color](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201bb095d8fcd970d-250wi "YouTube-icon-full_color")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201bb095d8fcd970d-popup?ref=hypebot.com)* *Guest post by *Bobby Owsinski* on [Music 3.0](http://music3point0.com/2016/12/07/youtube-day-overview/?ref=hypebot.com)*A recent look at a day in the life of **YouTube** by [**Pexeso**](https://beat.pexe.so/what-youtube-looks-like-in-a-day-infographic-d23f8156e599?ref=hypebot.com#.cmrkays0y) is extremely illuminating. First of all, it’s not as music-centric as it was previously, with only 5% of its videos now dedicated to music. Those amounted to 11% of total views, which comes in 4th behind gaming, entertainment, and people and blogs. Another eye-opening stat is that more than 93% of the videos are in English, and that the 3 major labels rank 2, 3 and 4 among the number of take-down notices issued.Here’s an overview of the data. You can find a very [nice infographic here](https://beat.pexe.so/what-youtube-looks-like-in-a-day-infographic-d23f8156e599?ref=hypebot.com#.cmrkays0y). **Brief overview of statistics of 1 YouTube day:** - YouTube receives roughly 300,000 individual video uploads each day, amounting to 80k hours of video and 24TB of data. - 8am PST is the busiest time of day for video uploads, whereas 12:36am is the least busy. *Approximately 10x more videos are uploaded during the busiest time comparing to the least busy.* - The average video uploaded to YouTube is 15 minutes long and 86MB in size. - 93.5% of videos uploaded to YouTube are in English. - The People & Blogs category receives the highest volume of uploads, accounting for a whopping 41% of videos uploaded everyday, followed by Gaming (14%), Film & Action (10%) and Entertainment (8%). - Although the People & Blogs category accounts for the most video uploads each day, Gaming is king, receiving the most attention. - Static videos — typically spammy videos containing just a static image whose purpose is to lure people outside of YouTube — account for unbelievable 7.5% of all uploaded videos. **What happens to videos after they’re uploaded?** - Only 35% of all videos uploaded will be claimed by rights holders. 26% will be monitored or monetized by the copyright holder; the remainder will be taken down. - A whopping 32% of all videos will end up removed within the first 24 hours. - 5% of videos will be deleted by users. - 18% will be removed because the user had their account terminated. - 9% will be taken down due to copyright infringement. - 0.4% of all videos are made private by the users in the first 24 hours. - 5% accounts that uploads videos in any given day get terminated for violating YouTube’s TOS. - Terminated accounts upload around 20% of all videos every day, 6x more than a typical account. Any perceptions of YouTube as a platform that’s dominated by music are shattered by this study. Indeed, video does account for 74% of all Internet traffic, but music is just a small piece of it. 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