<aside> 🎥 YouTube is a free video sharing website that makes it easy to watch online videos. One can even create and upload there own videos to share with others.
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Since its launch in 2005 and its acquisition by Google a year later, YouTube has grown from a repository of amateur videos into the biggest online video platform worldwide.
With the addition of YouTube Shorts – the platform’s own short-form vertical video feature – YouTube kept adapting to users’ demands. Launched globally in June 2021, YouTube Shorts surpassed 50 billion daily views in February 2023.
Number of Monthly Active Users on Jan 2024
<aside> 👫 2.7 billion
users worldwide
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<aside> 📸 50 billion
Daily views in Feb 23
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<aside> ⏰ 500 hours
of videos uploaded every min
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<aside> 📱 ~72 billion
users are from mobile
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<aside> 🖥️ ~8 billion
users are from desktop
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“ Give everyone a voice and show them the world. We believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share and build community through our stories. “
<aside> 💰 YouTube generated 29.2 billion USD in FY22 with 1.3% increase in year-on-year
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