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# YouTube Turns 10 Today [Official Stats]
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/youtube-turns-10-today-official-stats/
- Published: 2015-04-23T09:37:02.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-23T09:37:02.000Z
- Description: Ten years ago today, YouTube uploaded its first video. Co-founder Jawed Karim posted a boring 18 second clip of himself at the San Diego Zoo. And while Facebook and upstarts like. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2015/04/youtube-turns-10-today-official-stats.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Music Business, YouTube & Video, 8664, Chad Hurley, Facebook, Google, Jawed Karim, List of video hosting services, Me at the zoo, San Diego Zoo, Steve Chen, YouTube, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:28

[![Youtube_logo](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201bb08223a5d970d-150wi "Youtube_logo")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201bb08223a5d970d-popup?ref=hypebot.com)**Ten years ago today, YouTube uploaded its first video.** Co-founder Jawed Karim posted a boring [18 second clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw&ref=hypebot.com) of himself at the San Diego Zoo. And while **Facebook** and upstarts like **Vessel** are coming on strong, YouTube remains the dominant force in online video. **The official stats:**
- [![YouTube-icon-full_color](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b7c77e3734970b-150wi "YouTube-icon-full_color")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b7c77e3734970b-popup?ref=hypebot.com)YouTube has more than 1 billion users
- Every day people watch hundreds of millions of hours on YouTube and generate billions of views
- The number of hours people are watching on YouTube each month is up 50% year over year
- 300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute
- \~60% of a creator’s views comes from outside their home country
- YouTube is localized in 75 countries and available in 61 languages
- Half of YouTube views are on mobile devices
- Mobile revenue on YouTube is up over 100% y/y
For Creators –
- [![YouTube Creators](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201bb08223ae2970d-150wi "YouTube Creators")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201bb08223ae2970d-popup?ref=hypebot.com)Partner revenue is up over 50% from 2013 to 2014 (10/10/14)
- Opened [YouTube Spaces](https://www.youtube.com/yt/space/?ref=hypebot.com) in Los Angeles, Tokyo, London, New York and Sao Paulo, so far bringing in 60k+ people who’ve created over 6500 videos that have generated more than 50 million hours of watch time, the equivalent of more than 5,700 years
- Of the 100+ channels we funded in 2011 — 86 of those channels are in the top 1% of all YouTube channels, 25 have 1+ million subscribers, and collectively they’re getting over 3/4 billion views a month
- More than a million channels in dozens of countries are earning revenue from the YouTube Partner Program, and thousands of channels are making six figures per year
from [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/yt/press/statistics.html?ref=hypebot.com)

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