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YouTube for Press

Quickly find the stats, photos and videos you’re looking for, along with guidelines for crediting and broadcasting them.

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  • YouTube by the numbers

    YouTube has over 2 billion monthly logged-in users

    And every day, people watch over a billion hours of video and generate billions of views

  • YouTube by the numbers

    100+ countries around the world, across 80 languages

    There are localized versions of YouTube in over 100 countries around the world, across 80 languages

  • YouTube by the numbers

    500+ hours of content uploaded every minute

    More than 500 hours of content are uploaded to YouTube every minute

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Non-commercial use of YouTube videos in the press

Ownership and credit

YouTube channel owners control the rights to the content displayed on the site. We encourage you to reach out to them directly if you find a video you'd like to display and/or reference. When displaying a YouTube video in a broadcast or webcast, please provide both in-screen and verbal attribution by showing the username or real name of the applicable content owner.

Contacting a YouTube channel owner

Clicking on a YouTube username will take you to the main page of the user's channel. From there, you can use YouTube's on-site messaging system to contact the channel owner as long as you are logged into your own Google account. Simply click on the “About” tab, then select “Send Message” and fill out the electronic form.


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Only members of the press will receive a response. For all other inquiries, visit our Help Center. Images on this page may be used for publication with credit: "Source: YouTube."