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2,500,000,000

2,500,000,000 — active users for YouTube (2025)

Name: Active Users Statistics
Creator: Lighthouse Research
Published: 2026-02-13

2025 · Unknown · Tubefilter

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2,500,000,000

Unit

Count

Data Vintage

2025

Entity

YouTube

Study Type

Unknown

Geography

Global

Trend

Stable

Evidence Quality

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Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.

60/100 confidence

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Sources (12)

Tubefilter Primary Tier A

https://www.tubefilter.com/2025/04/23/youtube-20th-anniversary-stats/ ↗

Confidence: 95/100 Vintage: 2025

Source Article

Exactly 20 years ago, YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim uploaded the platform’s first ever video. Called Me at the zoo, it’s just 19 seconds long, but it marked the birth of the internet’s largest video site, a meeting place for creators and viewers all around the world to talk about any and every topi…

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YouTube: 2,500,000,000 active users. Source: Tubefilter (2025). Via Lighthouse Research Data — https://lighthousedata.io/data/youtube-active-users-2025

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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/youtube-active-users-2025" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>2,500,000,000</strong> — active users for YouTube<br><small>Source: Tubefilter (2025) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/youtube-active-users-2025" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Data</a></small></blockquote>

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