Yeah, that's a bit bizarre. YouTube is a great example of the long tail in action. Instead of considering YouTube a hit compared to the rest of the web, conside

Yeah, that's a bit bizarre. YouTube is a great example of the long tail in action. Instead of considering YouTube a hit compared to the rest of the web, consider its content. If I post a video of me and my friends goofing off at the beach, only a handful of people will watch it. But there are a ton of those "niche" videos available on YouTube. That's the long tail, and YouTube is successful precisely because it exploits the long tail of video.