Today, YouTube’s scale is staggering. It has between 2.5 and 3 billion monthly active users worldwide. Every day, over 1 billion hours of video are consumed, and more than 20 million new videos are uploaded on average. Its influence is equally vast. It turned ordinary people into global superstars like PewDiePie and MrBeast, and it launched the careers of musicians like Justin Bieber. It gave the world cultural touchstones like the dance craze "Gangnam Style" and the endlessly charming "sneezing panda."

– Typing “ytboob” into Google or YouTube’s search bar will either:

| Feature | yt-dlp | youtube-dl | |---------|--------|-------------| | Active development | ✅ | ⚠️ (slow) | | SponsorBlock | ✅ | ❌ | | Faster fragment download | ✅ | ❌ | | Many new sites | ✅ | ❌ | | AV1/VP9 priority | ✅ | Partial | | HDR support | ✅ | ❌ |