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What uses more data, watching YouTube videos for an hour YouTube for 1 hour at 144p?
or TikTok videos for an hour? Can I watch my own YouTube video to get
4000 watch hours?
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Vishal Vishwakarma, Software Engineer at Nucleus Software How much data does a movie use on YouTube
for 1 hour and 20 minutes?
Answered November 28, 2019
Hi, How much data does a YouTube video
consume?
I think it depends on what is your internet along with at which Quality you are watching
video. How many hours of online streaming videos /
YouTube videos can I watch on a 24GB…
F you are watching at HD quality it will consumes approx 2 Gb-3Gb Data in 1 hour. Ask Question
Talking about Tik tok it uses small video content so at high quality also it consume less
data in 1 hour bacause you will also spend some time in slidding those video clips and
loading will also consume your time of your limit time of 1 hour.
These are some my assumptions. However if you really want to figure you should try it
yourself also.
I hope you get the point :)
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Yingzi Li, B Sc. Computer Science from University of Calgary

Answered May 20, 2020
What uses more data, watching YouTube videos for an hour or TikTok videos for an
hour?
How much data YouTube will use depends on the quality of the video playback. When
watching YouTube videos for one hour, you will use:

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When watching TikTok videos for an hour, you will use:

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2Stanislav Zayarsky, CEO at Trembit (2009-present)

Answered January 30, 2020
Youtube video 720p, video bitrate is 5Mbps, meaning 5Mbps/8 = 600 Kilobytes per
second. Multiply it by 60 seconds and then by 60 minutes = 2.1 GB (Gigabyte) per hour.
TikTok 15 seconds video contains from 2 to 6 MB of data, letʼs take an average of 4 MB.
So, we can watch 4 videos per minute and therefore 4x60 = 240 videos per hour. 240
videos x 4MB = 960 MB of data.
Youtube (2.1 GB) vs TikTok (0.96 GB). Youtube is a winner! :)
More information about TikTok infrastructure in my blog post: How much does it cost to
maintain TikTok servers?
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Answered August 8, 2020

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YouTube uses more data,
1 TikTok seemed to use only half as much data as Youtube did.
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So, in most cases with a video set to the normal quality or low quality, you should
able to watch TikTok for about 20 hours before going over 1 GB of data.
Normally, a 480p YouTube video can deliver a quality of 30 frames per second ( FPS).
Apparently, this takes up 264 MB of data every hour. Videos using low-quality settings
such as 720p (HD) are said to use about 870 MB in one hour, while 1080p (Full HD)
video playback requires about 1.65 GB.
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Amit
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Answered December 21, 2019
It depends on the quality of your videos ….
Tiktok have different types of quality videos
And… in YouTube it's like magic
You can change in quality of videos in many types like 140p , 240p, 360p, 480p, 720p
etc. So if you use YouTube you can watch video in 140p to save data …now answer of
the question is.
Tiktok it uses more data….
Now there is trick to save data on youtube is

Watch this and enjoy YouTube without worrying of data…

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Eddie Blevins
Answered November 3
Well it depends, are you also commenting on the videos, liking them? It would be my
guess that youtube would use more data, but you can go in your settings and see!
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Alexander Lehmann, Youtube user since 2006

Answered August 8, 2020
Youtube has videos up to 4k with most videos being 1080 FHD, TikTok has videos with
720p i think, so they use less data than Youtube
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