# What people do with video, stickers and PDFs in Telegram: data from 23,474 tasks

By [HandyBots team](https://handybots.tools/en/about/)  · Updated: November 14, 2026

Over the period October 24, 2026 — November 14, 2026, the HandyBots bots completed 23,474 tasks for 11,132 new people (75% of them got a result). Most often people turn a short vertical video into a round video note; a video note is ready in about 2.7 s.

- **23,474**tasks done by the bots
- **11,132**new people tried them
- **75%**of them got a result
- **2.7 s**median time to a round video note

Period: October 24, 2026 — November 14, 2026

## In this report

- What people turn a video into
- What people send
- How long the videos are
- Vertical or horizontal
- Video stickers or static stickers
- How long the wait is
- How long the recordings for transcription are
- How we counted

## What people turn a video into

After sending a file to @MakeVideoNoteBot, people choose what to make: a round video note in 60% of cases, MP3 (extracting the sound) in 21%.

| What | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Round video note | 10,163 | 60%** |
| MP3 (sound only) | 3,608 | 21%** |
| Regular video (from a video note) | 917 | 5%** |
| Voice message | 1,643 | 10%** |
| GIF | 663 | 4%** |

[Open in Telegram: @MakeVideoNoteBot](https://t.me/MakeVideoNoteBot?start=s_web_en_data) @MakeVideoNoteBot

## What people send

74% of the files are ordinary videos; 7% are video notes people want to turn back into a regular video.

| What | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Video | 12,450 | 74%** |
| Video note (round) | 1,162 | 7%** |
| Audio file | 1,533 | 9%** |
| Voice message | 951 | 6%** |
| GIF | 324 | 2%** |
| Video as a file | 342 | 2%** |

## How long the videos are

Half of the videos are 15 seconds or shorter (median size 2.6 MB). Only 8% are longer than a minute — the limit of a video note.

| What | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Up to 15 s | 6,461 | 52%** |
| 16–30 s | 3,401 | 27%** |
| 31–60 s | 1,559 | 13%** |
| 1–3 min | 720 | 6%** |
| Over 3 min | 309 | 2%** |

## Vertical or horizontal

66% of the videos are vertical — filmed on a phone. A video note is round, so the bot crops the centre of the frame.

| What | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Vertical | 8,255 | 66%** |
| Square | 1,994 | 16%** |
| Horizontal | 2,201 | 18%** |

## Video stickers or static stickers

In @StickerMakerFromPhotoBot 46% of the stickers are video stickers and 54% are made from photos.

| What | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Video sticker (from a video or GIF) | 1,259 | 46%** |
| Sticker from a photo | 1,483 | 54%** |

[Open in Telegram: @StickerMakerFromPhotoBot](https://t.me/StickerMakerFromPhotoBot?start=s_web_en_data) @StickerMakerFromPhotoBot

## How long the wait is

From tapping the button to getting the result. Speech recognition depends on the length of the recording; a PDF — on the number of photos.

| Task | Results | Median | 9 in 10 done within |
|---|---|---|---|
| Video → video note, MP3, GIF | 16,354 | 2.7 s | 6.1 s |
| Remove background | 334 | 3.2 s | 5.2 s |
| Video sticker | 1,259 | 4.1 s | 6.7 s |
| Sticker from a photo | 1,483 | 4 s | 5.5 s |
| Photos → PDF | 1,147 | 3.6 s | 17.7 s |
| Voice → text | 1,812 | 7.6 s | 46.7 s |

## How long the recordings for transcription are

Audio files sent to @TranscribeVoiceBot are long — the median is 4 min 2 s; voice messages are short — 11 s.

| What | Count | Median |
|---|---|---|
| Audio file | 706 | 4 min 2 s |
| Voice message | 1,040 | 11 s |

[Open in Telegram: @TranscribeVoiceBot](https://t.me/TranscribeVoiceBot?start=s_web_en_data) @TranscribeVoiceBot

## How we counted

The numbers come from the bots' action log, which records the type, size, duration and outcome of each event — no file contents, texts or names. Only totals are published. The log starts on 24 October 2026; days are counted in UTC.

“New people” are those who opened at least one of the bots for the first time in the period; “got a result” — those who received at least one finished file. Shares are rounded to whole percent.

## How to cite

HandyBots, “What people do with video, stickers and PDFs in Telegram: data from 23,474 tasks”, https://handybots.tools/en/data/telegram-video-sticker-pdf-usage-statistics/, data for October 24, 2026 — November 14, 2026.

Download the data — free to reuse with a link to this page (CC BY 4.0): [CSV](https://handybots.tools/data/handybots-bot-usage.csv)  · [JSON](https://handybots.tools/data/handybots-bot-usage.json)

## Questions

**Is any personal data in these statistics?**

No. Only counts are published: how many videos, stickers or PDFs, their length and wait times. The log keeps no file contents or messages.

**How often is this report updated?**

Every day at 21:00 UTC. The tables cover the last 30 days, including the current day up to the update.

**Can I quote these numbers?**

Yes, with a link to this page as the source.

Source: https://handybots.tools/en/data/telegram-video-sticker-pdf-usage-statistics/