Alphabet does not report YouTube Shorts as its own line in the accounts. What it does publish comes through its quarterly earnings calls and YouTube’s own blog: milestones for daily views and users, and a running comparison of how Shorts earn against in-stream video. This page gathers each of those figures with the date it was said and who said it.
How many views do YouTube Shorts get?
Shorts average over 200 billion views a day. Neal Mohan, YouTube’s CEO, first gave that level on 18 Jun 2025, and Alphabet repeated it on its earnings call of 4 Feb 2026. In April 2022 the figure was 30 billion.
Source: Alphabet earnings calls and the YouTube Official Blog, 26 Apr 2022 to 4 Feb 2026.
The Keyword, “YouTube Shorts daily views, as stated by Alphabet and YouTube”, updated 25 Sep 2026. https://www.thekeyword.co/stats/youtube-shorts#shorts-views
The jump to 200 billion is not like for like. From 31 Mar 2025, YouTube counts a Shorts view each time a Short starts to play or replays, with no minimum watch time, so the 70 billion and 200 billion levels were measured differently. Shorts could also run to three minutes from 15 Oct 2024.
How many people watch YouTube Shorts?
Over 2 billion logged-in users watch Shorts every month. Alphabet gave that figure on 30 Jan 2024 and has not updated it since; in July 2022 it was 1.5 billion.
On the supply side, over 10 million channels publish Shorts every day (29 Apr 2026), and 70% of channels that upload to YouTube in a month upload Shorts (29 Oct 2024). Viewing is moving to the living room: connected TV accounts for 15% of Shorts viewing in the US (4 Feb 2025).
Do Shorts earn as much as in-stream video?
In the US, they now earn more. On 29 Oct 2025, Alphabet said Shorts earn more revenue per watch hour than traditional in-stream video, three and a half years after calling Shorts a “slight headwind to revenue growth”.
| Date | What Alphabet said about Shorts |
|---|---|
| A “slight headwind to revenue growth”. | |
| US monetization rate relative to in-stream “more than doubled in the past 12 months”. | |
| Level with in-stream on revenue per watch hour in the US. | |
| Ahead of in-stream on revenue per watch hour in the US. |
Does Alphabet report YouTube Shorts ad revenue?
No. Alphabet reports one YouTube advertising line, “YouTube ads”, covering Shorts, in-stream and every other format: $11,055M in Q2 2026. None of the quarterly releases from Q1 2022 to Q2 2026 breaks out a Shorts revenue figure, and Alphabet has never given Shorts’ share of YouTube watch time.
All 24 figures, with dates and sourcesShow
| Date | Daily views | What was said | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 billion+ | First stated: “averaging over 30 billion daily views” | Alphabet Q1 2022 earnings call | |
| 50 billion+ | First stated: “averaging over 50 billion daily views” | Alphabet Q4 2022 earnings call | |
| 70 billion+ | First stated: “over 70 billion daily views” | Alphabet Q3 2023 earnings call | |
| 70 billion+ | Restated: “we're averaging 70 billion in daily views” | Alphabet Q4 2023 earnings call | |
| 70 billion+ | Restated: “averaging 70 billion daily views” | Alphabet Q1 2024 earnings call | |
| 70 billion+ | Restated: “over 70 billion YouTube Shorts are watched every day” | Alphabet Q3 2024 earnings call | |
| 200 billion+ | First stated: “averaging over 200 billion daily views” | YouTube Official Blog (Cannes Lions 2025) | |
| 200 billion+ | Restated: “over 200 billion daily views” | Alphabet Q2 2025 earnings call | |
| 200 billion+ | Restated: “over 200 billion daily views” | Alphabet Q4 2025 earnings call |
| Date | Figure | What it measures | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.5 billion | Shorts signed-in users every month | Alphabet Q2 2022 earnings call | |
| 2 billion | Shorts logged-in users every month | Alphabet Q2 2023 earnings call | |
| 2 billion | Shorts signed-in users every month (restated) | Alphabet Q3 2023 earnings call | |
| 2 billion | Shorts logged-in users every month (restated, the latest user figure) | Alphabet Q4 2023 earnings call | |
| 70% | Share of channels uploading to YouTube each month that upload Shorts | Alphabet Q3 2024 earnings call | |
| 15% | Connected TV's share of Shorts viewing in the US | Alphabet Q4 2024 earnings call | |
| 10 million | Channels publishing Shorts each day | Alphabet Q1 2026 earnings call |
| Date | What Alphabet said | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Called Shorts a “slight headwind to revenue growth” as Shorts took a larger share of YouTube viewing. | Alphabet Q1 2022 earnings call | ||
| The US monetization rate of Shorts relative to in-stream viewing had “more than doubled in the past 12 months”. | Alphabet Q1 2024 earnings call | ||
| The US Shorts monetization rate relative to in-stream rose by more than 30 percentage points during 2024. | Alphabet Q4 2024 earnings call | ||
| In the US, Shorts now earn as much revenue per watch hour as traditional in-stream video. | Alphabet Q2 2025 earnings call | ||
| In the US, Shorts now earn more revenue per watch hour than traditional in-stream video. | Alphabet Q3 2025 earnings call | ||
| Date | Change | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shorts uploads extended to 3 minutes, from 15 October 2024. | YouTube Official Blog | ||
| YouTube announced that from 31 March 2025 a Shorts view counts each time a Short starts to play or replays, with no minimum watch time. | YouTube Help Community | ||
| Published | Revenue | What it covers | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| $11,055M | YouTube ads revenue, Q2 2026. One line for every YouTube ad format; no Shorts figure is broken out. | Alphabet Q2 2026 earnings release (SEC 8-K, Exhibit 99.1) |
The original transcript, post or filing behind every row is linked on the sources page.
Recap
Over 200 billion a day, the level YouTube and Alphabet have given since June 2025. It is counted under a looser view definition that YouTube adopted in March 2025.
In the US, more. Alphabet said in October 2025 that Shorts earn more revenue per watch hour than traditional in-stream video.
No. Its one YouTube advertising figure covers every format, and no release since 2022 separates out Shorts.