YouTube Statistics

(from http://www.youtube.com/t/fact_sheet)

Traffic and Stats

People are watching 2 billion videos a day on YouTube and uploading hundreds of thousands of videos daily. In fact, every minute, 24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube.

Demographics

Our user base is broad in age range, 18-55, evenly divided between males and females, and spanning all geographies. Fifty-one percent of our users go to YouTube weekly or more often, and 52 percent of 18-34 year-olds share videos often with friends and colleagues. With such a large and diverse user base, YouTube offers something for everyone.

YouTube and Google

YouTube is an independent subsidiary of Google Inc., having been acquired by the leader in search and online advertising services in November of 2006.

Google and YouTube share the vision of enabling anyone to find, upload, watch and share original videos worldwide, and the dedication to innovate with video to offer compelling services for our users and for content owners.

The exciting and powerful platform YouTube has built complements Google's mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.