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# YouTube Releases Staggering New User Stats
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/youtube-releases-staggering-new-user-stats/
- Published: 2013-05-02T14:48:20.000Z
- Updated: 2013-05-02T14:48:20.000Z
- Description: YouTube has released some staggering new stats: 1 billion unique monthly visitors, connecting 15% of the planet to videos users are watching more than 6 billion hours of video each. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2013/05/youtube-releases-staggering-new-user-stats.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Music Tech, Social Media, YouTube & Video, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:43

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YouTube has released some staggering new stats:

- 1 billion unique monthly visitors, connecting 15% of the planet  
to videos
- users are watching  
more than 6 billion hours of video each month
- that's almost an hour  
a month for every person on Earth and 50% more this year than  
last

MORE:

- there are 55,000 YouTube partner channels
- they collectively represent more than 14 million subscribers and almost 800 million video views

To celebrate YouTube created this promo video:

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