B
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95%
95% -- teen usage rate for YouTube (2025)
95% of U.S. teens aged 13 to 17 say they have used YouTube.
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Value
95%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
Entity
Geography
Global
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Pew Research Center
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Tier B
https://www.davidarkinconsulting.com/youtube-strategy-for-news-publishers/ ↗
Source Article
A publisher's guide to an effective YouTube strategy - David Arkin Consulting
By Grace Denenny
YouTube has about 2.5 billion monthly active users and is the second most popular social media network in the world. Created in 2005, YouTube has become a favored social channel across the world and had over 100 billion visits in January.
So it’s clearly a platform that media compan…
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Pew Research Center
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Pew Research Center survey data as cited
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Trend Over Time
| Period | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 95% | |
| 2024 | 92% | -3.2% |
| 2024 | 95% | +3.3% |
| 2025 (current) | 92% | -3.2% |
| 2025 (current) | 95% | +3.3% |
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IndustryMedia
RegionGlobal
Channelevents
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YouTube: 95% teen usage rate. Source: Pew Research Center (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/us-teens-youtube-usage-pew
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