On YouTube’s 20th Anniversary, the Platform Says Over 20 Trillion Videos Have Been Uploaded

Twenty years ago today, YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim uploaded a 19 second video titled “Me at the zoo” to the platform. As anyone who follows YouTube knows, it was the first video hosted by the platform.

On its 20th anniversary, YouTube now says that since Karim’s video was posted, more than 20 trillion videos have been uploaded (and no, that isn’t a typo).

The video behemoth dropped a number of jaw-dropping stats Wednesday, along with significant updates to its TV experience, which has become a strategic priority for the platform, all connected to its anniversary.

YouTube says that as of March 2025, more than 20 million videos are uploaded every single day, and that in 2024 users posted more than 100 million comments on videos, on average, every day.

On TV screens, YouTube says that it will roll out a redesign of its TV app this summer, including “easier navigation, playback, quality tweaks, plus streamlined access to comments, channel info, and subscribing,” per a blog post from the company.

YouTube announced its initial refresh of the TV app last year, letting creators organize around shows and seasons, but the new refresh will further refine the experience.

And YouTube TV, its multichannel video service, will add a feature that has been requested for years: The abilty for users to create their own multiview, with up to four channels playing at once, including non-sports channels and offerings. Multiview established itself in the sports space, on NFL Sunday Ticket, March Madness, and with other live events, but it will now be available, “starting with a small group of popular channels,” and expanding over the next few months.

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan said in February that viewing on TV screens had overtaken mobile as the “primary device” for viewing in the U.S., underscoring the degree to which the viewing habits of users has changed, and the degree to which its creator-driven strategy has shifted.

But as the new data shows, the biggest thing in YouTube’s favor is scale, and that scale is a big reason that it is pulling away from anyone else in streaming video, even two decades after it was founded.