{"id":10746,"date":"2018-11-16T10:08:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T08:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/?p=10746"},"modified":"2022-04-05T15:18:52","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T13:18:52","slug":"the-most-watched-youtube-videos-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/streaming\/the-most-watched-youtube-videos-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Watched YouTube videos of all time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all love YouTube \u2013 it\u2019s become one the primary ways we consume content, from music videos to learning how to flat iron your own hair or how to blow stuff up in Minecraft, YouTube is there for us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stats for Nerds: Here are some random YouTube stats for you:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 YouTube is the second most popular search Engine<br \/>\n\u2022 There are over 1,300,000,000 YouTube viewers<br \/>\n\u2022 More than 300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute<br \/>\n\u2022 Roughly 5 billion videos are watched every day<br \/>\n\u2022 More than 1 billion hours of YouTube are watched per day<br \/>\n\u2022 Half of YouTube viewers are under 32<br \/>\n\u2022 You can navigate YouTube in 76 different languages<br \/>\n\u2022 95% of the most watched videos are music videos<br \/>\n\u2022 YouTube searches for \u201cHow To\u201d are growing by 7% per year<\/p>\n<p>We thought we would take a look at which are the most watched videos on YouTube of all time. Here is what we found\u2026<\/p>\n<h2>\nThe Most Watched Videos on YouTube:<\/h2>\n<p><strong>10. Katy Perry, \u201cRoar\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\nReleased in September 2013, this video is currently sitting at 2,660,442,172 views.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CevxZvSJLk8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>9. Taylor Swift, \u201cShake it off\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\nReleased in August 2014, Taylor Swift\u2019s \u201cShake it off currently has 2,679,640,946 views<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nfWlot6h_JM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>8. Maroon 5 \u201cSugar\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\nWho doesn\u2019t love this video? It currently has 2,807,442,408 views.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/09R8_2nJtjg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>7. Justin Bieber, \u201cSorry\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\nThe seventh most watched video on YouTube is Justin Bieber\u2019s \u201cSorry\u201d, with 3,032,982,922 views.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fRh_vgS2dFE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>6. Psy, \u201cGangnam Style\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\nReleased in July 2012, this video caused something of a sensation at the time. It is currently sitting at 3,237,918,824 views.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9bZkp7q19f0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Masha and the Bear: Recipe for disaster<\/strong><br \/>\nThis Russian cartoon is the only YouTube video on the top 10 list which isn\u2019t a music video. Released in January 2012, this episode of Masha and the Bear currently has 3,310,224,052 views.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KYniUCGPGLs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Mark Ronson \/ Bruno Mars, \u201cUptown Funk\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\nProving beyond a shadow of a doubt that we all just love to get down to a really happy track, this video which was releases in November 2014 is currently sitting at 3,333,539,778 views.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OPf0YbXqDm0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Wiz Khalifa \/ Charlie Puth, \u201cSee you again\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\nFrom the \u201cFast and the Furious\u201d sound track, this video was released in April 2015 and is currently sitting at 3,864,979,284 views<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RgKAFK5djSk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Ed Sheeran, \u201cShape of You\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\nWe will be seeing him in Cape Town soon, and it\u2019s no surprise we\u2019re all so excited given Ed\u2019s immense popularity. \u201cShape of You\u201d is currently sitting at 3,900,289,637 views<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JGwWNGJdvx8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Luis Fonsi \/ Daddy Yankee, \u201cDespacito\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\nReleased just last year (January 2017) , this video has managed to sky rocket to number one on the \u201cmost watched list\u201d with a whopping 5,705,954,569 views. That\u2019s an insane number of views. We wonder how many of those are unique users.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kJQP7kiw5Fk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all love YouTube \u2013 it\u2019s become one the primary ways we consume content, from music videos to learning how to flat iron your own hair or how to blow stuff up in Minecraft, YouTube is there for us. Stats for Nerds: Here are some random YouTube stats for you: \u2022 YouTube is the second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":12838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[349],"class_list":["post-10746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-streaming","tag-youtube"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/youtb.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdAWxt-2Nk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10748,"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10746\/revisions\/10748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}