Our team's paper, "Dialing for Videos: A Random Sample of YouTube," is out now in @journalqd.bsky.social. We analyzed 10,000 random YouTube videos through metadata analysis, a spoken language identification model, and hand-coding. Here are our 5 main takeaways:

1. YouTube hosts over 13 billion public videos (as of this month) Our sampling method allows us to estimate YouTube's total size and growth. This current estimate is up from our paper's year-old estimate of ~10 billion. Check out tubestats.org for our latest data!

TubeStats

TubeStats is an open-source tool that lets you navigate YouTube data and compare videos across the platform.