Number of videos removed from YouTube worldwide as of Q4 2024

Published by Laura Ceci, Apr 3, 2025

During the fourth quarter of 2024, a total of approximately 9.5 million videos were removed from the Google-owned video-sharing platform YouTube. This includes videos that had been automatically flagged for violating the platform's community guidelines. In comparison, only 330 thousand videos were removed via flags from non-automated flagging systems.

Number of videos removed from YouTube worldwide from 4th quarter 2017 to 4th quarter 2024

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February 2025

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Q4 2017 to Q4 2024

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