Number of removed YouTube videos by source of first detection 2024| Statista

During the fourth quarter of 2024, YouTube's automated flagging process caused approximately 9.12 million videos to be removed from the video-sharing platform. Automated flagging accounted for the bulk of content removal - user-generated flagging only caused 266 thousand videos to be removed for violating community guidelines during the same quarter.

Number of videos removed from YouTube worldwide from 1st quarter 2019 to 4th quarter 2024, by source of first detection

Characteristic	Automated flagging	Individual Trusted Flagger	User	NGO/ Organization	Government agency
Q4 2024	9,126,392	-	266,797	63,797	1
Q3 2024	8,830,498	-	225,347	60,336	1
Q2 2024	8,198,119	-	238,204	61,553	-
Q1 2024	7,996,564	-	238,058	60,676	6
Q4 2023	8,656,644	-	302,784	52,800	4
Q3 2023	7,752,654	-	322,513	40,481	11
Q2 2023	6,857,780	-	460,359	47,409	8
Q1 2023	6,082,092	-	362,748	43,049	7
Q4 2022	5,344,444	-	270,969	47,749	13
Q3 2022	5,296,959	-	255,291	-	8
Q2 2022	4,195,734	34,490	256,109	10,555	45
Q1 2022	3,544,195	42,022	292,715	3,712	31
Q4 2021	3,451,691	59,240	232,737	10,531	16

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