The hugely popular UK dance DJ and producer Fred again.. has a very, very long video up on his YouTube right now. That clip has the title "USB002 EVERY SHOW," and it runs for 108 hours, or about four and a half days. It's a live recording of every DJ set that Fred again.. played between Oct. 3, 2025, and Feb. 27 of this year. In that time, he played a ton of sets with other big names around the world. The Elijah-designed art for the video features the names of all the other acts on those bills.
In an Instagram post about the video, Fred again.. says that he "really just wanted to document the insane experience of getting to play b2b wit this amazing list of ppl." He also stops just shy of claiming a YouTube record: "Im told this is the longest video on YouTube ever?"
So he's not outright saying it's the longest YouTube video. He's just doing the "many people are saying..." thing. That's big talk, so our own Scott Lapatine had to investigate whether Fred really does have the longest YouTube video of all time. Before we get into that, though, here's Fred again..'s video. Enjoy it, and we'll pick this conversation back up again in four and a half days.
That was great! 108 hours well-spent! Oh, and here's Fred again..'s Instagram post about it:
Now, the investigation! First off: There's a 2020 video that's over eight days. It's just a countdown, though, not a creative enterprise like what Fred did. If you want to watch an eight-day timer, though, have fun:
According to the fine folks at Guinness, the longest YouTube livestream ever happened last year in the Dominican Republic, and it lasted for 38 days. But when livestreams get archived, YouTube usually only lets them go for 12 hours before cutting them off. Fred again.. wins again.
In 2020, Twenty One Pilots released what they called a "never ending" music video for their song "Level Of Concern." It livestreamed for 178 days, and Guinness certified it as the "longest music video." It's categorized separately from that Dominican Republic video because the band didn't actually livestream it. Instead, it was made up of real-time van-submitted visuals, beamed over from their website, with the song on a loop. That's a little closer to what Fred again.. did. (The video isn't up anymore.)
There are whispered legends about YouTube videos that display years-long lengths, but those are due to corrupted metadata causing the time display to default to largest integer. They don’t actually play that long (or at all). It’s a display glitch. They don't count.
But there is another contender. In 2011, a YouTuber named Jonathan Harchick uploaded a video called "The Longest Video On YouTube: 596.5 Hours" to his MoldytoasterMedia channel. It has its own IMDB page. The video was reportedly a slideshow of photos from Harchick's trip to Chile. Sometimes, he was seen taking a sip of water; it was associated with the “Jon Drinks Water” series, which sounds riveting. Sometimes, the video was just blank, or repeated. In that era, YouTube capped uploads by file size, not length, so users could exploit it to post really long lo-res videos.
In any case, that channel was deactivated, so "The Longest Video On YouTube: 596.5 Hours" is no longer on YouTube. You can find it on the Wayback Machine, but you probably can't get it to play. Technically, Jonathan Harchick probably beats Fred again.., even if his video isn't really online anymore. But Fred's video doesn't feature repeating content, so it does deserve some special recognition, which Stereogum World Records will give him if Guinness doesn't.
