Some back of the envelope math suggests that a 30 minute video needs about 10 views a month to pay for its storage. So clearly there’s some amount of the popula

Some back of the envelope math suggests that a 30 minute video needs about 10 views a month to pay for its storage. So clearly there’s some amount of the popular stuff subsidizing the unpopular stuff but the break even point is much further down the long tail than people realize.