How Much Can You Make on Youtube 2018

YouTube was launched in 2005. It was founded past 3 PayPal employees: Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, who ran the company from an function to a higher place a small eating place in San Mateo.

The first video uploaded to the platform was "Me at the zoo", featuring Karim. By the years end, YouTube was hosting over two 1000000 videos per day on its website and was averaging over 20 million daily active users.

Information technology wouldn't exist long earlier Google scooped up YouTube, acquiring the startup for $1.65 billion in late 2006. What was considered at the time to exist a huge attain for a startup which had shown no capability or involvement in generating profit is now recognised every bit 1 of the smartest acquisitions of the past two decades.

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Fourth dimension mag would include YouTube on its person of the year encompass the same year. The person in question was 'you', specifically content creators, with the comprehend incorporating a mirror, rather than YouTube itself. Equally YouTube grew, it added more features to serve content creators, such as ratings, comments, embed functionality, livestreaming and revenue sharing.

Many celebrities have been created through YouTube, with vlogging, gaming and comedy initially being the almost popular types of content. On today'south YouTube, there are hundreds of channels with millions of subscribers on almost every topic, with the highest grossing channel of 2022 actually existence a kid'south toy channel called Ryan'south World.

In 2014, YouTube launched a premium service aimed at curbing the loss of revenue from advertising-blocking. YouTube Ruby was unsuccessful in its mission, reaching less than 10 million subscribers before it relaunched as YouTube Premium. Premium, which bundles ad-free viewing with YouTube Music, hit xxx million subscribers in 2020.

We have collected data and statistics on YouTube. Read on below to find out more.

YouTube key statistics

YouTube generated $19.seven billion revenue in 2020, a 30.iv percent increase yr-on-year
Over 2.3 billion people access YouTube once a calendar month
YouTube's nigh subscribed channel is T-Series, however Ryan's World generated the most revenue in 2020
YouTube Premium reached 30 million subscribers in 2020

YouTube overview

Launch appointment	April 2005
HQ	San Bruno, California
People	Susan Wojcicki (CEO), Scott Silver (VP, Engineering), Sundar Pichai (Alphabet CEO)
Business organisation type	Subsidiary
Owner	Alphabet

YouTube revenue

YouTube annual revenue

Year	Revenue
2010	$0.8 billion
2011	$1.3 billion
2012	$1.7 billion
2013	$iii.ane billion
2014	$4.2 billion
2015	$5.5 billion
2016	$6.7 billion
2017	$8.ane billion
2018	$11.i billion
2019	$15.1 billion
2020	$19.seven billion

Sources: Alphabet, eMarketer, WSJ

YouTube channels revenue

Channels	2020 revenue
#1 – Ryan's World	$29.five million
#2 – Mr Fauna	$24 million
#3 – Dude Perfect	$23 million
#4 – Rhett and Link	$twenty million
#5 – Markiplier	$nineteen.5 million
#6 – Preston	$xix meg
#seven – Like Nastya	$18.5 million
#8 – Blippi	$17 meg
#nine – David Dobrik	$15.5 million
#10 – Jeffree Star	$15 meg

Source: Moneywise

YouTube users

Year	Users
2012	0.8 billion
2013	1 billion
2014	1.1 billion
2015	1.2 billion
2016	1.4 billion
2017	1.five billion
2018	one.eight billion
2019	ii billion
2020	2.3 billion

Annotation: This covers monthly agile users.

Source: YouTube

YouTube Premium subscribers

Yr	Subscribers
2015	1.5 million
2016	3 million
2017	ii.8 million
2018	ten one thousand thousand
2019	18 million
2020	30 million

Note: YouTube launched Premium in 2018, after failing to gain subscribers with YouTube Blood-red.

Source: Edison Trends, YouTube

YouTube Music vs Spotify: users

YouTube FAQ

What is the almost subscribed channel on YouTube?

T-Series is the most subscribed channel on YouTube, with 176 one thousand thousand subscribers as of Feb 2021

What is the most viewed video on YouTube?

Baby Shark Dance past Pinkfrog Kids' Songs and Stories is the most viewed YouTube video equally of March 2021, with 8.5 billion views

Where is YouTube ranked on global engagement?

Alexa and SimilarWeb both rank YouTube second in global engagement, behind Facebook

What is the male person to female ratio of YouTube viewers?

Male/female ratio of YouTube viewers stands at 11:9 (Nosotros Are Social/Hootsuite)

How many times has YouTube been downloaded?

YouTube has been downloaded over five billion times, although it does come up pre-installed on Android devices

How many YouTube channels have over 250,000 subscribers?

Over 65,000 YouTube channels have hit the 250,000 subscriber mark

What is the average video length of a YouTube video?

Co-ordinate to Pew Enquiry Middle, the average video length is 12 minutes

How much content is uploaded to YouTube every infinitesimal?

500 hours of content are evidently uploaded to YouTube, according to The Street

What was the showtime YouTube video to attain i 1000000 views?

A Nike advertizing featuring footballer Ronaldinho was the first to reach i million (The Drum)

What was the first YouTube video to reach one billion views?

South Korean artist PSY'south Gangnam Style was the get-go to reach i billion

How much is YouTube worth?

YouTube could exist worth betwixt $140 and $300 billion if spun-out into its own visitor (VentureBeat)