YouTube is the world's largest video platform, with more than 2 billion logged-in users a month and more than 500 hours of video uploaded every minute. Updated every second.
On average about 41,666,667 people use YouTube at the same moment. Right now it is 73% of the way from the nightly low to the daily peak, which usually comes around 20:00 UTC.
Night low 18.8MPeak 62.5M
Concurrent viewers
50.7M
right now
Daily average
41.7M
at any moment
Peak (est.)
62.5M
around 20:00 UTC
Official users
2 billion+
YouTube for Press
Hourly activity pattern (UTC)
Typical YouTube activity by hour, as a share of its daily peak. The shape is our estimate from public traffic curves.
About YouTube
YouTube is the world's largest video platform, with more than 2 billion logged-in users a month and more than 500 hours of video uploaded every minute.
Founded 2005Users 2 billion+ logged-in users a monthType Video sharing and streaming platform
More than 500 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute (YouTube).
YouTube Shorts average more than 200 billion views a day (YouTube, June 2025).
Viewers watch more than 1 billion hours of YouTube a day, a figure YouTube first shared in 2017.
How this counter works
YouTube does not publish real-time concurrent data. YouTube says people watch more than 1 billion hours of video a day. 1 billion hours spread over 24 hours is about 41.7 million people watching at any moment. That was the last official watch-time figure (2017), so today it is almost certainly higher.
We then shape that daily average with a typical UTC hourly curve for YouTube, so the counter rises toward the evening peak and falls at night. The daily average rests on published data; the hour-by-hour shape is our estimate.
About 41.7M on average at any moment, from about 18.8M in the quietest hour to 62.5M at the peak around 20:00 UTC. YouTube says people watch more than 1 billion hours of video a day. 1 billion hours spread over 24 hours is about 41.7 million people watching at any moment. That was the last official watch-time figure (2017), so today it is almost certainly higher.
How many people use YouTube?
YouTube reports 2 billion+ logged-in users a month (YouTube for Press).
When is YouTube busiest?
Usually around 20:00 UTC, when it is evening in Europe and afternoon in the Americas. The quietest hour is around 03:00 UTC, night in Europe and the Americas.