With an estimated 225 million YouTube users, India has more YouTube users than any other country. The U.S. comes in second place with 197 million users.
YouTube users by age
According to the latest data on YouTube age demographics, as many as 34.62% of all YouTube users are young adults aged from 18 to 24. Of these, 52.6% are female users and 47.4% are male. This is the age group with the highest number of YouTube users.
As of April 2022, approximately 53.9 percent of YouTube users were male. By comparison, female users on the popular social video platform were approximately 46 percent of the total. In 2022, the Netherlands and South Korea were among the country with the highest YouTube penetration worldwide.
According to the latest data ranking YouTube users by country, India has the largest YouTube audience. 467 million people there are active users of the video-sharing platform, and popular genres include comedy, music, vlogs, gaming, and cooking.
The Indian music video channel T-Series is the most-subscribed YouTube channel, with 230 million subscribers as of November 2022.
As of December 2022, MrBeast is the most-subscribed YouTuber, with 116 million subscribers. PewDiePie is the second most popular with 111 million subscribers.
Two channels recently managed to break the 100M subscriber barrier: Felix Kjellberg's PewDiePie channel and T-Series from India.
Is Youtube blocked in China? Yes, Youtube is blocked in China. Attempting to load the Youtube app or website while in mainland China will return an error. Youtube videos embedded on other sites will not load.
Most active TikTok users in the United States: 136.42 million. Also in the top three countries with the largest number of TikTok users are Indonesia (99.07 million) and Brazil (73.58 million).
95% of users among Gen Z and Millenials (aged 18-29) watch YouTube, making them the largest consumers of YouTube content among all age groups. The 30-49 age group make the second largest group of YouTube viewers. 90% of users in this age group love watching YouTube.
YouTube: distribution of global audiences 2022, by age and gender. As of April 2022, almost 12 percent of YouTube global audience was composed of male users aged between 25 and 34 years, as well as around nine percent female users of the same age.
TikTok Users by Gender
As of the latest data (January 2022), the majority of TikTok users are female (57%). And 43% are male. In a similar vein, the majority of TikTok creators are also female (53.79%).
As of January 2022, YouTube is most used by men aged 25 to 34 (11.6%).
YouTube reports on its usage for those between 16 and 64 years. As of 2021, 82% of all male adults are on YouTube, while 80% of all females access the platform in the U.S. (Pew Research, 2021). According to a 2021 Pew Research report, 95% of 18-29 year-olds and 91% of 30-49 year-olds in the U.S. use YouTube.
Globally popular streaming services like Spotify are banned in mainland China. The NCAC said that while copyright practices had improved since 2015, when the authority banned unlicensed music streaming and ordered platforms to remove millions of songs, the industry still needed to be further standardized.
Hate speech, predatory behavior, graphic violence, malicious attacks, and content that promotes harmful or dangerous behavior isn't allowed on YouTube.
Google pulled its search engine from China in 2010 because of heavy government internet censorship. Since then, Google has had a difficult relationship with the Chinese market. The end of Google Translate in China marks a further retreat by the U.S. technology giant from the world's second-largest economy.
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In a statement, MrBeast (aka Jimmy Donaldson), said, “100 million means so much. I've been making videos since I was 11 years old. This number in a way represents everything I've ever done in my life and I'm so grateful to everyone who's ever watched a video.
It has been 10 years since Psy's “Gangnam Style” became the first YouTube video to reach one billion views.
In November 2005, a Nike advertisement featuring Brazilian football player Ronaldinho became the first video to reach 1,000,000 views. The billion-view mark was first passed by Gangnam Style in December 2012. On January 13, 2022, Pinkfong's "Baby Shark" became the first video to hit 10,000,000,000 views.
The average YouTube channel can receive around $18 per 1,000 ad views, which equals around $3 to $5 per video view, according to data from Influencer Marketing Hub.
1. “Baby Shark Dance” by Pinkfong (11.90 billion views) If playback doesn't begin shortly, try restarting your device.
W ith a name like MrBeast, perhaps it was only inevitable that he'd grow to be as big as he's become. The 23 year old earned $54 million in 2021—the most of any YouTuber ever—as his videos accumulated 10 billion views, doubling from the previous year.
Few people demonstrate YouTube's shift better than Jimmy Donaldson, better known to his 112 million subscribers as MrBeast. This week Donaldson, 24 and born in Wichita, Kansas, became YouTube's king, surpassing Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg as the most subscribed-to individual on the platform.