YouTube took 92 million videos offline in 2015 for violation of guidelines

YouTube removed 92 million videos last year for failing to meet its policy guidelines. Some of the videos were automatically recognized as spam, and some users reported that the images violated the policy.

According to Google, only 1 percent of the videos removed involved terrorist content and hate speech. The company reports this in an update on how to report videos by users. Viewers may do so if they believe it is spam, fraud, sexually explicit content, violent or harmful images, or copyrighted material.

Users of the video platform are doing this more and more, according to Google: the number of reported videos per day has increased by a quarter compared to last year. In total, more than 90 million YouTube users from 196 countries have reported videos since 2006. A third of them did so more than once. Indonesia, Turkey, Germany and Ukraine are the countries where reported videos most often violated the policy.