Billion views on Youtube

Every day more and more user-generated videos appear on the Internet, most of which are posted on the YouTube video hosting site.

In addition to possible popularity, a large number of views on a video brings good profits to its owners, so the majority of “bloggers” place the main emphasis on the number of views.

It has long been no secret that YouTube publishes not only user-generated content, but also video clips of famous singers, film studios and companies. This is done, first of all, to attract an additional audience.

Often such “commercial” videos gain a viral effect, so the number of their views amounts to hundreds of millions.

In this article, we’ll look at which videos managed to get 1 billion views on youtube. Let us immediately note that almost all positions in the list of the most viewedYouTube videos are dominated by music videos.

YouTube record holders for views

The popularity of music videos is well founded. In addition to the fact that songs by famous artists are constantly played on the radio, most of their videos become viral (this trend is especially noticeable in the Western pop scene).

The “virality” of a video on YouTube depends on many factors, so it is impossible to name an exact recipe for success in gaining the coveted views. It is noteworthy that at the moment the list of “YouTube record holders for views” includes only one video that is not related to music.

Interesting fact! One episode of the Russian animated series “Masha and the Bear” managed to collect more than three and a half billion views, making it the most popular video not related to music.

Trace mainmoments that can make videos reach hundreds of millions of views are quite difficult.

There are several key elements, the presence of which will allow you to gain billion views on youtube:

1. Optimal video length. As a rule, videos with a duration of no more than 3-5 minutes get the most views. Despite the fact that views on YouTube are counted after just a few seconds of playback, 3-minute clips achieve higher results in terms of video statistics
2. “Viral” component. Since YouTube algorithms can count views from one account several times, the authors of the videos try to add the so-called “click” to the video. “viral” feature. This feature can be either a separate scene or phrase, or the video itself
3. Competent promotion. Many bloggers mistakenly believe that high quality content andcompetent technical processing of the video can easily elevate the video to YouTube trends, but to get the greatest effect, you should definitely use relevant hashtags, distribute the video to the right audience and promote the video on third-party resources in every possible way.

Of course, a big role in the popularity of YouTube videos is played by the performers themselves, who were previously widely known to the public, but with the right approach, you can get a billion views without the outside help of TV and radio companies.

Interesting fact! In addition to counting the views of each individual video, many journalists and ordinary users pay attention to the general statistics of video clips of a particular artist.

According to this indicator, the leader for a long time has been Justin Bieber, whose list of works includes several viral clips that occupy leading positions in the general list of YouTube record holders.

It’s logical thatIt is quite difficult to gain a billion views on YouTube in a short time, but the currently leading (by number of views) video of Puerto Rican singer Luis Fonsi for the song “Despasito” managed to collect more than six billion views in just two years (the video was published in January 2017), while the previous leader PSY with the video “Gangnam Style” managed to gain only 3.3 billion views since 2012.

10 videos on Youtube with 1,000,000,000 views

Before considering the list of “YouTube record holders for views”, it is worth noting that some of the artists’ works presented may be swapped, since the difference between some clips is insignificant.

Let's start looking at the videos with the most views:

• 10. The tenth place in the list of the most popular publications on YouTube is occupied by the music video Taylor Swift for the song “Shake It Off”.At the moment, the work has collected about 2.75 billion views. Since this work was published quite a long time ago (in 2014), it can be noted that “Shake It Off” will soon fall out of the top ten most popular videos.


• 9. The ninth position is occupied by the no less popular singer Katy Perry with her work “Roar”. Now YouTube statistics indicate that the work of the American singer managed to collect 2.78 billion views. The video was published in 2013, so Taylor Swift’s work will soon surpass “Roar” in terms of the number of interested viewers.


• 8. American pop group Maroon 5's video for the song “Sugar” managed to collect more than 2.9 billion views, which allowed him to take eighth position in the ranking of the most viewed YouTube videos.


• 7. Video of American pop star Justin Bieber for the song “Sorry” for a long time was considered oneone of the most “viral” on YouTube, but has recently lost ground and occupies only 7th place in the top of the most popular videos. Not long ago, the number of “views” exceeded three billion, which in itself is a separate reason for the artist’s pride.


• 6. By and large, one of the most famous “viral” clips “Gangnam Style” , which for a long time remained the most viewed, now ranks only 6th place with 3.3 billion views. Thanks to the huge number of parodies and covers of this video, at one time the work of the South Korean artist PSY produced a real “revolution” of viral videos.


• 5. The top five most viewed works opens with Marco Ronson and Bruno Mars’ video for the song “Uptown Funk.” Despite the rather modest popularity of this duet in the Russian-language segment of the Internet, the work of these singers managed to collect about 3.5 billion views.


• 4. The only “non-musical” representative of this top is Russian animated series “Masha and the Bear” , namely the series “Masha + porridge”. Due to its enormous popularity among children, this cartoon series managed to collect about 3.53 billion views, making it one of the most viewed animated works on the entire Internet.


• 3. The top three most popular videos on YouTube are confidently duet of Charlie Puth and Wiz Khalifa with the video “See You Again” with 4 billion views. Due to the enormous popularity of the performers themselves, the “production” of the Fast and the Furious film series (the song is the main soundtrack of one of the parts of the franchise) and the “viral” component, the video managed to gain enormous popularity.


• 2. Second place in the list of “billion views on youtube” is taken by Ed Sheeran’s work on the song “Shape of You”. Now the video holds confidentlysecond position of the most popular musical works on YouTube with 4.14 billion views.


• 1. The rapid growth in popularity of music videos, the virality of the video, colorful footage of the work itself and the brightness of the image singer Luis Fonsi - all this allowed the “Despacito” video to collect more than six billion views in just two years.
  Such a rapid (and continuing to this day) rise allows the video to be considered the most popular on YouTube, and by a huge margin. The closest "rival" of "Despacito" - "Shape of You" managed to score 2 billion fewer views.

How much do they pay for a billion views on Youtube?

Since the main profit from YouTube videos comes from advertising placed in them, we note that most of the clips are published not for commercial purposes.

In general, the main task of a viral video is to increase the popularity of the artist himself, thereforethe question “how much do they pay for billion views on Youtube?” not entirely appropriate if we are considering video clips.

It’s another matter if the main goal of the video is to earn money. In this case, it all depends on the number of clicks on the advertising links indicated in the video.

Through simple calculations, you can understand that for billion views on youtube the owner of the channel (on which the video work is posted) can get about one hundred thousand dollars (at the rate of 100-150 dollars per one million views).

Depending on the place of residence of the author of the video, the profit from views will vary. For example, in the United States, the authors of million-dollar videos can be paid about $1,000, which, with the number of views of one billion, gives a huge profit - about a million US dollars.