New study of YouTube reveals some fascinating data. Look!

Pex, a global online analytics company, just published the results of a study into the kind content that dominates YouTube. Here are some topline results.

• As of the end of 2018, there were 5.2 billion videos on YouTube, which works out to at least 1 billion hours or 114,000 years.
• 621 hours of new content are uploaded every minute. They forecast that number to grow to over 1,500 by 2021.
• Another way of looking at things: 1.3 billion videos will be uploaded just this year.
• The average length of a video is just over 15 minutes. (Remember that videos were limited to 10 minutes until 2011.)
• Total views? Just 29,000,000,000. Yes, we’re well into the trillions.
• There are 33 billion comments, 32,951,011 of which are trolling and negative. (I made that last number up, but you get my point.)
• The fastest growing genre of video? Music. By the end of 2019, almost 40% of YouTube’s library will be music-related.
• 5% of YouTube’s library are actual music videos
• 20% of all views goes to music. That worked out to two trillion views last year.
• The average number of views for music videos is 16,400.
• These videos have the lowest average length at 6.8 minutes.
• The most profitable genre of video? Not gaming. It’s music.
• Now the bad news: only 0.64% of all videos reach 100,000 views.
• However, that 0.64% generates more than 81% of all views.

The full report (along with some nice graphs) can be found here.