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  "claim": "YouTube Shorts averaged over 70 billion daily views, and more than 3 million channels were in the YouTube Partner Program (2024)",
  "commonly_cited_as": "\"How many views do YouTube Shorts get per day?\"",
  "verdict": "outdated",
  "verdict_definition": "Source found and quoted correctly, but old enough that the market has changed.",
  "confidence": "high",
  "rating": {
    "value": 3,
    "best": 5,
    "worst": 1
  },
  "origin": {
    "publisher": "YouTube (CEO Neal Mohan)",
    "title": "Letter from the YouTube CEO: 4 Big bets for 2024",
    "year": "2024"
  },
  "quote": "Today more than 3 million channels are in the YouTube Partner Program (YPP) ... Shorts is averaging over 70 billion daily views",
  "method": "Company-reported figures.",
  "drift": [
    "Age: early-2024 figure; YouTube's press page now says Shorts averages over 200 billion daily views"
  ],
  "interest": "YouTube promotes its own platform.",
  "safe_rephrasing": "In early 2024 YouTube said Shorts averaged over 70 billion daily views; its current press page says over 200 billion, so use the newer figure with its date.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "YouTube Blog — Letter from the YouTube CEO: 4 Big bets for 2024",
      "url": "https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/2024-letter-from-neal/",
      "primary": true
    }
  ],
  "kind": "reference_fact",
  "as_of": "Early 2024 (CEO's 2024 letter)",
  "last_checked": "2026-10-16",
  "stale": false,
  "date_reviewed": "2026-10-16",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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