What is the highest possible number of views YouTube can count on a single video? If you’re a relatively small channel, you’ll probably be happy to get a thousand, maybe even a couple of thousands of views on a video you post. More successful channels can hope for tens of thousands, possibly even hundreds of thousands of views for the right video in the right moment. YouTube giants like PewDiePie, Vsauce, Game Theorists and others are known for generating several millions of views with a single video. Only a handful of videos on this platform have managed to enter the famous one billion club, and as of now, that’s pretty much the roof when it comes to views on YouTube. But what we’re interested in is the number of views you would have to get on a single video, before the YouTube view counter would basically break! The highest number of views that YouTube can count on a single video is 9,223,372,036,854,775,808. As you may know, Gangnam Style, by the South Korean musician Psy, was the first YouTube video to ever reach one billion views, which happened on December 21st 2012. The success of the song had such a huge impact that YouTube representatives themselves made a Google Plus post in which they stated how the platforms own view counter had to be upgraded, just because of it! According to the same post, before Gangnam Style, YouTube counted views using a 32-bit integer, which guaranteed a maximum of 2,147,483,647 views. Because of the success the song had, they had to upgrade to a 64-bit integer that allows a number of views that takes effort to just say - 9,223,372,036,854,775,808. SOURCES: - Brain Statistics: YouTube Statistics http://www.statisticbrain.com/youtube-statistics/ - The Verge: "Gangnam Style Broke YouTube's View Counter" http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/3/7325819/gangnam-style-broke-youtube-view-counter - Cnet: 'Gangnam Style' busts YouTube's view counter? Not so fast http://www.cnet.com/news/gangnam-style-busts-youtubes-view-counter-not-so-fast/ - WSJ: ''Psy’s ‘Gangnam Style’ Is Most-Watched Video on YouTube'' http://www.wsj.com/articles/gangnam-re-styles-youtube-1417660563 - Wikipedia: List of Most Viewed YouTube Videos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_viewed_YouTube_videos - YouTube: Statistics null _____________________________________ ► SUBSCRIBE: null ► FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/Hotmonkey000 ► GOOGLE +: https://plus.google.com/+ChannelHotmonkey/posts ______________________________________ Music: ‘’Tobaggan’’, ''Heavy'' (YouTube Audio Library)