YouTube in 🇧🇪 Belgium
Monthly active users & DSA compliance in Belgium
The current state of YouTube's platform transparency and accountability in relation to the EU's Digital Services Act. YouTube now has 11.9M users in Belgium per their filing.
YouTube in 🇧🇪 Belgium
Average monthly active recipients (EU) · latest DSA filing
The metric is each platform’s average monthly active recipients (AMAR) in the EU, averaged over six months — the figure the DSA obliges very large platforms to publish (Art. 24(2)). Google and YouTube instead report signed-in accounts (and signed-out sessions separately) and state these cannot be compared across providers.
Source: Google DSA Monthly Active Recipients report — average monthly active recipients (EU, signed-in accounts), 1 Jul–31 Dec 2025 · Refreshed ~6-monthly. Not directly comparable across periods — providers revise how they count these figures over time.
About these numbers · MAU figures are YouTube's average monthly active recipients in the EU (signed-in accounts) for 1 July–31 December 2025, from Google's DSA Monthly Active Recipients report. Google reports signed-in accounts and signed-out sessions separately and states these figures cannot serve as a basis for comparison to numbers provided by other providers.
European Union · Digital Services Act (DSA)
This data exists only because of the DSA
Every figure on this page comes from disclosures the EU forces very large platforms to publish. No other jurisdiction mandates them, which is why numbers like these simply don’t exist for the US or anywhere else.
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YouTube EU DSA Compliance Reports
| Report | Publish Date | Platform | Full Report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Services EU DSA Transparency Reports — H2 2025 | February 28, 2026 | Google & YouTube | Download |
| VLOSE/VLOP Transparency Report under the European Union Digital Services Act (EU DSA) – January–June 2025 | August 28, 2025 | Google & YouTube | Download |
| VLOSE/VLOP Transparency Report under the European Union Digital Services Act (EU DSA) | February 17, 2025 | Google & YouTube | Download |
| Information about Monthly Active Recipients under the Digital Services Act (EU) | February 17, 2025 | Google & YouTube | Download |
| YouTube Audit Report under the European Union Digital Services Act (EU DSA) | February 17, 2025 | Google & YouTube | Download |
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