“Our current estimate for the size of YouTube is 13.325 billion videos”
YouTube won’t say how many videos it hosts, so Ethan Zuckerman’s team guessed random video IDs through an undocumented API until they hit 10,000 real ones. Over 4 billion went up in 2023 alone. The median video has 39 views, and the 4% with 10,000 or more take the lion’s share. Researchers had to drunk dial a platform used by 93% of teens because Google sells the data to advertisers and hides it from everyone else.