During the first quarter of 2024, Huge YouTube accounts, which had over 50,000 followers, reported an engagement rate of approximately 6.2 percent on their short-format content. In comparison, engagement was sensibly lower on long-format videos, which reported an engagement rate of 1.72 percent for Huge accounts. Medium YouTube accounts, which had a following between 2,001 and 10,000 users, reported engagement ratings of almost three percent on their Shorts, while long videos had an engagement of around 0.15 percent.

In 2023, YouTube influencers with between 1,000 and 5,000 followers had an engagement rate, amounting to 1.9 percent. The rate for influencers with more 1,000,000 followers was higher - 3.4 percent.

During the first quarter of 2024, YouTube shorts recorded the highest engagement rate across all short video platforms and in-app features analyzed. Content hosted on YouTube in form of shorts had an engagement rate of 5.91 percent, while TikTok reported an engagement rate of approximately 5.75 percent. Facebook Reels had an engagement rate of around two percent, making the platform rank last for short-format user engagement.

As of November 2024, users worldwide spent more than 27 hours using the YouTube mobile app per month. Users in South Korea spent an average of approximately 43 hours and 26 minutes engaging with video content on the YouTube app, while users in Switzerland spent less than 10 hours monthly on the app. In the United States, each user spent approximately 24.43 hours on the mobile app of the popular social video platform in 2024.

In 2024, the engagement rate on YouTube content experienced a small decrease compared to the previous year. The average engagement rate on YouTube was of 3.87 percent in the last examined period, down from the 3.97 percent recorded in 2023.

As of February 2025, India was the country with the largest YouTube audience by far, with approximately 491 million users engaging with the popular social video platform. The United States followed, with around 253 million YouTube viewers. Brazil came in third, with 144 million users watching content on YouTube. The United Kingdom saw around 54.8 million internet users engaging with the platform in the examined period. What country has the highest percentage of YouTube users? In July 2024, the United Arab Emirates was the country with the highest YouTube penetration worldwide, as around 94 percent of the country's digital population engaged with the service. In 2024, YouTube counted around 100 million paid subscribers for its YouTube Music and YouTube Premium services. YouTube mobile markets In 2024, YouTube was among the most popular social media platforms worldwide. In terms of revenues, the YouTube app generated approximately 28 million U.S. dollars in revenues in the United States in January 2024, as well as 19 million U.S. dollars in Japan.

During first quarter of 2024, YouTube Shorts collected a higher number of interactions from the platform's users, with 37.4 likes on average per short-format video, as well as 0.22 dislikes. Long-format videos, which are the platform's most popular user-generated content, generated approximately 18 likes per video as well as 0.20 dislikes on average.

In 2023, the top YouTube channels by reach and user engagement was IJustWantToBeCool2 in Sweden. Familjen Lundell's YouTube channel had the second most engagement and reach, and third came Sampe2. Pewdiepie's (Felix Kjellberg's) channel had more than 110 million followers more than the top one, although this did not consider the engagement among solely Swedish social media users.

As of June 2023, influencers on YouTube in Thailand with a follower count of over one million had the highest engagement rate of about 421.1 percent. Comparatively, YouTube influencers with the follower count between five thousand and ten thousand had the engagement rate of around 20.9 percent.

The global number of Youtube users in was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2029 by in total 232.5 million users (+24.91 percent). After the ninth consecutive increasing year, the Youtube user base is estimated to reach 1.2 billion users and therefore a new peak in 2029. Notably, the number of Youtube users of was continuously increasing over the past years.User figures, shown here regarding the platform youtube, have been estimated by taking into account company filings or press material, secondary research, app downloads and traffic data. They refer to the average monthly active users over the period.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in up to 150 countries and regions worldwide. All indicators are sourced from international and national statistical offices, trade associations and the trade press and they are processed to generate comparable data sets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).Find more key insights for the number of Youtube users in countries like Africa and South America.

In recent years, video has become one of the most popular online formats, spanning from educational content to product reviews. During the third quarter of 2024, music videos recorded the highest category reach, with almost half of internet users worldwide reporting to watch music videos online each week. Social video engagement In recent years, YouTube and TikTok have become two of the most important social media platforms for global users, as video content commands high levels of engagement. In 2024, users worldwide spent approximately 28.4 hours using the YouTube mobile app per month. Additionally, the leading hashtags used by content creators on TikTok have amassed billions of views: as of January 2024, the TikTok hashtag “fyp” or “for you page” had reached 55 and 35 billion post views, respectively. Watching content: what device do users prefer? In 2023, televisions were the most used devices for global viewers to watch video-on-demand (VOD), with 55 percent of respondents reporting using these devices. In comparison, 13 percent of respondents reported using smartphones. Age group and generation are factors impacting viewership habits and device preferences, as younger users appear to prefer using their smartphones to consume content. According to a March 2024 survey, U.S. users aged 18-34 years were more likely to watch video content on smartphones than any other devices. By comparison, connected TVs were particularly popular for the online video audience aged 35 and older.

As of July 2022, the largest bulk of YouTube video views in the United States was continued for over 90 percent by influencer-published videos. Videos created by media companies generated approximately six percent of all the views on the popular social video platform, while videos created by brands or aggregators generated only two percent of all the views on YouTube as of the examined period.

In the first quarter of 2024, YouTube long-format videos collected more comments than the short-form videos on the platform. On average, YouTube saw users leave around four comments per long-form video. In comparison, YouTube Shorts appeared not to attract the same level of interactions, less than one comment per video on average.

As of February 2025, Sweden had approximately 8.65 million YouTube users, while Denmark had around 4.7 million. This substantial user base highlights the platform's significance in the region's digital landscape, where it serves as a key source of entertainment and information for millions across Scandinavia. Norway had approximately 4.34 million YouTube users, while Iceland had approximately 313,000 YouTube users as of the examined period. Gender balance and usage patterns YouTube's appeal is relatively balanced between gendered demographics in the Nordic region. In Denmark and Finland, women accounted for 50 percent of the platform's audience. In Norway, YouTube’s reach appears particularly strong, with almost one-third of internet users reporting daily access to YouTube in the fourth quarter of 2023. This frequent engagement underscores the platform's integration into daily media consumption habits across the region.

YouTube content creators Nordic countries foster a vibrant YouTube creator ecosystem, with local channels garnering significant attention. Despite reducing his online presence recently, Swedish YouTuber PewDiePie has been a trailblazer for global content creators. In June 2024, PewDiePie’s channel counted around 111 million subscribers, still ranking among the most popular content creators in his native Sweden. Despite his global popularity, Swedish audiences have started preferring channels with content specifically tailored to their language or comedy style, such as the trio IJustWantToBeCool2 and Familjen Lundell, which ranked as the most popular channels in Sweden for reach and user engagement.

As of November 2024, South Korea saw the largest number of monthly mobile YouTube app opens. Android users in the country generated around 335.7 YouTube app opens on a monthly basis. Users in India followed, with 251.9 YouTube app opens, while Android users in Thailand saw 242.7 YouTube app opens in the examined period.

According to a survey conducted in Fall 2023 among Generation Z video consumers in the United States, approximately 29.3 percent of the time they spent engaging with video format was spent on YouTube. This represents a small increase compared to the corresponding period in 2022, when teens in the U.S. spent around 29 percent of their online video time on the popular social video platform.

In 2023, YouTube accounts with less than 2,000 subscribers generated virtually no revenues from advertising on the platforms. In comparison, accounts that had between 10,000 and 50,000 subscribers generated on average 0,03 U.S. dollars per video on YouTube, while accounts that recorded an audience between 50,000 and 55 million subscribers saw average ad revenues of 0.11 U.S. dollars, up by 37.5 percent year-over-year.

Multi-channel networks (MCN) are third-party service providers that affiliate with multiple Youtube channels, in order to offer services that may include audience development, content programming, creator collaborations, digital rights management, monetization, and/or sales. In 2020, Fullscreen was the channel that generated the highest level of engagement, with about 6.1 percent user engagement, followed by Age Network with six percent. The same survey assessed the multi-channel networks with the highest number of subscribers: Talent Web was ranked first with 174 million of subscriptions.

This statistic shows the result of a survey on the average engagement rate for YouTube videos in Poland in 2018, broken down by channel category. According to the survey, Internet users loved to watch entertainment content in 2018 and were very eager to share their opinions on individual videos. As a result, the Entertainment category reached the highest engagement rate in the sample (10 percent), calculated as the sum of all interactions (likes/dislikes + comments + sharing) divided by the number of views.

In September 2022, social media users in the United States generated two billion likes and interactions on Instagram Reels. In comparison, TikTok generated approximately one billion likes in the examined period. Content posted on YouTube's own short-video feature - YouTube Shorts - generated 29 million likes in the examined period.