YouTube Celebrates 20 Years with New Features and Impressive Stats
YouTube is celebrating its 20th birthday with a range of new features and add-ons designed to enhance user experience.
Faster Playback, Personalized Radio, and More
YouTube Premium subscribers now have access to 4x playback speed, allowing for quicker consumption of content. For those looking for a more personalized listening experience, YouTube is introducing an AI-powered "Ask Music" feature. Simply describe your desired music type, and YouTube will create a custom radio station.
Describe the type of music you’re in the mood for and create your very own personalized radio station with “Ask Music,” perfect for those who have always dreamed about soundtracking their lives.
Ask Music will be available to all YouTube Premium and YouTube Music users.
Enhanced Community Engagement
YouTube is expanding the rollout of voice replies in video comments, offering creators and viewers a more personal way to connect. This feature was initially launched in testing last December.
Multi-View and Connected TV Updates
YouTube TV subscribers gain the ability to create multi-view screens with select non-sports content. The Connected TV UI is also getting an upgrade with improved access to comments.
YouTube's 20th Birthday Stats
YouTube shared some impressive statistics highlighting platform engagement:
- Over 20 million videos are uploaded daily.
- In 2024, users averaged over 100 million comments on videos daily, and creators liked comments from an average of 10 million viewers each day.
- YouTube videos receive over 3.5 billion likes per day.
The growth of Shorts has significantly contributed to the volume of content uploaded daily.
Twenty years of YouTube marks its constant presence in the lives of many young adults, impacting the media landscape and contributing to the decline of traditional TV.
Learn more about YouTube's 20th-anniversary updates on the official YouTube blog.
