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# A Look At YouTube By The Numbers
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/a_look_at_youtu/
- Published: 2006-09-06T06:33:00.000Z
- Updated: 2006-09-06T06:33:00.000Z
- Description: YouTube hosts over six million videos, growing at about 20 percent every month. The videos take up 45 terabytes of storage — about 5,000 home computers’ worth. The total time. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2006/09/a_look_at_youtu.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Streaming, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:10

- YouTube hosts over six million videos, growing at about 20 percent every month.[![Youtube_13](https://hypebot.typepad.com/hypebot/images/youtube_13.gif "Youtube_13")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/youtube%5F13.gif?ref=hypebot.com)
- The videos take up 45 terabytes of storage — about 5,000 home computers’ worth.
- The total time spent watching YouTube videos since it started last year is 9,305 years!
- The content requires several million dollars’ worth of bandwidth a month to transmit.
- The most popular items get an especially large percentage of the traffic.
- The words "dance," "love," "music" and "girl" are all exceedingly popular in video titles.

*Source:* [*Computers.net*](http://www.computers.net/2006/08/youtube%5Fstats%5Fr.html?ref=hypebot.com) *via* [*Blackrimglasses*](http://blackrimglasses.com/archives/2006/08/31/computersnet-youtube-stats-revealed-total-viewing-time-9305-years/?ref=hypebot.com)