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# YouTube 2020 Stats You Need To Know
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/youtube-2020-stats-you-need-to-know/
- Published: 2020-01-27T16:35:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-01-27T15:38:13.000Z
- Description: While the site has undergone some serious transformations over the years, YouTube remains a valuable tool for bands and artists. Here we look at some useful stats concerning the site. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2020/01/youtube-2020-stats-you-need-to-know.html]
- Author: admin
- Tags: Music Business, YouTube & Video, 2020, stats, YouTube, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 09:55

While the site has undergone some serious transformations over the years, YouTube remains a valuable tool for bands and artists. Here we look at some useful stats concerning the site and its users.

*Guest post by *Bobby Owsinski* of [Music 3.0](https://music3point0.com/2020/01/20/2020-youtube-stats/?ref=hypebot.com)*

Despite the naysayers, **YouTube** is not only holding its own these days but actually managing to grow. In fact, some of its numbers are pretty astounding. Let’s take a [look at the latest YouTube stats ](https://blog.hootsuite.com/youtube-stats-marketers/?utm%5Fsource=twitter%5Fhootsuite&utm%5Fmedium=owned%5Fsocial&utm%5Fterm=278c3092-358d-4b38-a070-cb3be74c7519&utm%5Fcampaign=all-alwayson-none-glo-en----social%5Fhootsuite---)as they come from the social distributor **Hootsuite**.

![High-resolution laptop showing YouTube homepage with various video thumbnails and a prominent YouTube logo.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3a/95/3a957c06-c825-4057-9939-0a274cc16d23/content/images/www-hypebot-com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/youtube-1158693_640.jpg)

- **YouTube has over 2 billion monthly users.** Yep, it’s grown in the last year by a couple hundred million.
- **73% of U.S. adults use YouTube,** which is more that use **Facebook**, and almost two times more that use **Instagram**. Even more 15 to 25 year olds use YouTube, 81%, than adults.
- **Most YouTube viewers come from the United States,** but that’s only 15% of the total. India comes next at 8.1% and Japan after that with 4.6%.
- **Only 33% of popular videos on the service are in English.** There are more than 80 different languages used as YouTube is available in 91 countries.
- You’ve read variations of this one before, but **people now upload 500 hours of content every single minute**!
- **70% of what people watch has been recommended by YouTube’s algorithm.** It must be pretty good if we keep watching what it brings us.
- **10% of the most popular videos draw 79% of the total views**! The old rule of thumb used to be that 20% of what’s popular would bring in 80% of the audience, but YouTube has thrown this for a loop.
- **70% of all views are on mobile**. That’s no surprise as watching videos is one of the great time killers when you have have some some to kill.
- People are more careful about what they watch though. **People are watching 70% less [harmful/misinformative/borderline video content ](https://youtube.googleblog.com/2019/12/the-four-rs-of-responsibility-raise-and-reduce.html?ref=hypebot.com)on YouTube**.

There’s a lot more info, but these latest YouTube stats show that its consumption is not slowing down although tastes do seem to be altering a bit. YouTube can be a very local experience, but it can also be a global one as well, which may in fact be its charm and secret for success.