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Youtube hit 4 billion views per day

47 points by Garbage 15y ago

vbtemp 15y ago
The thing I love about youtube is that there is never any problem loading the pre-video commercials for Cox internet or whatever. They always come through in HD and without any lag, ever. And then more often then not, I have to turn down the quality of the actual video because it can't stream at a high resolution. Suffice it to say, I don't really use youtube.
- Karunamon 15y ago
  For the love of crap, THIS. I'm glad I'm not the only one who's somewhat miffed that the advertisements are getting preferential treatment to the actual content (the reason people actually GO to youtube). If I wanted to watch advertisements at the expense of content, I'd subscribe to cable again.
  - jonknee 15y ago
    The preferential treatment is more likely that an advertisement used across many videos is much more likely to be cached at a location near you than a specific video. Still sucks, but it makes sense.
    - hrktb 15y ago
      An implementation where the ad is shown only after buffering a certain amount of contents would have been interesting. You'd wait longer before anything happens, there would be less ad impressions, every metrics I can imagine would be lower than the current behavior, but it sounds so much more sensible. I'd love a service doing that.
  - pbj 15y ago
    While annoying, you have to put things into perspective. You don't have to pay for youtube, and you can watch 30+ minute videos with usually only one or two 15 second ads. Compare that to TV where you're stuck with 5+ minutes of ads for the same 30 minute content. Alternatively, watch Vimeo or something instead, which (correct me if I'm wrong) doesn't show video ads and focuses on higher quality artistic content anyway.
colin-de-vries 15y ago
I dont understand why youtube has no Sopa/Pippa issues? I searched but didn't find a good answer. Could somebody expain that please?
- cryptoz 15y ago
  What do you mean? If SOPA or PIPA had passed, YouTube would certainly have issues. Did the article suggest otherwise to you? As it is, YouTube receives DMCA takedown requests probably every single second, and they comply with them. So they stay alive. It seems the situation was the same with Megaupload, except that they didn't exactly comply all the time.
  - colin-de-vries 15y ago
    I know about the DMCA takedown requests. But as I understand it YouTube has to do their own investigation with each upload. At the rate of 60 hours per minute. That seems a bit difficult if not impossible. In that respect YouTube should be taken offline like they did with mega upload and many other sites. So, why is YouTube not burned like many other websites. There are complete series seasons on YouTube. I guess i was just expecting more commotion around YouTube then there currently is. (For the record, I oppose to Sopa and Pipa)
    - jonknee 15y ago
      AFAIK YouTube can't self-censor and remain in the DMCA safe harbor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_Liability_Limitation_Act#Knowledge_of_Infringing_Material http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_L... This is why Justin.tv can go on when its top channels are obviously illegal. It has to receive notice as such instead of simply monitoring what's currently broadcast and killing things like football.
      - colin-de-vries 15y ago
        Thank you for the answers. The replies makes sense to me. I just read that if you upload a Michael Jackson song you can get 5 years in prison. That's one year longer then what the doctor who killed him got.
marknutter 15y ago
Does anyone know if YT is actually turning a profit for Google yet?
Zirro 15y ago
I would love if they provided some daily, or even live statistics. How much space and bandwidth are these videos consuming? Seeing this printed on a graph for the last 24 hours, month and year would be interesting too.
fpp 15y ago
4 Billion videos a day, I'm always astounded by such numbers - who is watching that many Videos? A bit of common sense: - World population: 7 Billion - Estimated total Internet users (including those that can't use videos due to bandwidth/volume limits): 2 Billion - estimated max. potential Internet users for YouTube: 1 Billion - estimated max. daily active users for YouTube: 500-800 Million so everybody on this planet that is continuously using the Internet has to watch at least 5-8 videos on YouTube everyday - 365 days a years. To me that looks like there is an army of bots out there creating loads of statistical noise & billions of page views. Guess we'll never know for sure as billions of dollars are made every year with online marketing and advertising that is closely linked to such statistics.

47 points by Garbage 15y ago

The thing I love about youtube is that there is never any problem loading the pre-video commercials for Cox internet or whatever. They always come through in HD and without any lag, ever. And then more often then not, I have to turn down the quality of the actual video because it can't stream at a high resolution. Suffice it to say, I don't really use youtube.

Karunamon 15y ago
For the love of crap, THIS. I'm glad I'm not the only one who's somewhat miffed that the advertisements are getting preferential treatment to the actual content (the reason people actually GO to youtube). If I wanted to watch advertisements at the expense of content, I'd subscribe to cable again.
- jonknee 15y ago
  The preferential treatment is more likely that an advertisement used across many videos is much more likely to be cached at a location near you than a specific video. Still sucks, but it makes sense.
  - hrktb 15y ago
    An implementation where the ad is shown only after buffering a certain amount of contents would have been interesting. You'd wait longer before anything happens, there would be less ad impressions, every metrics I can imagine would be lower than the current behavior, but it sounds so much more sensible. I'd love a service doing that.
- pbj 15y ago
  While annoying, you have to put things into perspective. You don't have to pay for youtube, and you can watch 30+ minute videos with usually only one or two 15 second ads. Compare that to TV where you're stuck with 5+ minutes of ads for the same 30 minute content. Alternatively, watch Vimeo or something instead, which (correct me if I'm wrong) doesn't show video ads and focuses on higher quality artistic content anyway.

colin-de-vries 15y ago

I dont understand why youtube has no Sopa/Pippa issues? I searched but didn't find a good answer. Could somebody expain that please?

cryptoz 15y ago
What do you mean? If SOPA or PIPA had passed, YouTube would certainly have issues. Did the article suggest otherwise to you? As it is, YouTube receives DMCA takedown requests probably every single second, and they comply with them. So they stay alive. It seems the situation was the same with Megaupload, except that they didn't exactly comply all the time.
- colin-de-vries 15y ago
  I know about the DMCA takedown requests. But as I understand it YouTube has to do their own investigation with each upload. At the rate of 60 hours per minute. That seems a bit difficult if not impossible. In that respect YouTube should be taken offline like they did with mega upload and many other sites. So, why is YouTube not burned like many other websites. There are complete series seasons on YouTube. I guess i was just expecting more commotion around YouTube then there currently is. (For the record, I oppose to Sopa and Pipa)
  - jonknee 15y ago
    AFAIK YouTube can't self-censor and remain in the DMCA safe harbor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_Liability_Limitation_Act#Knowledge_of_Infringing_Material http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_L... This is why Justin.tv can go on when its top channels are obviously illegal. It has to receive notice as such instead of simply monitoring what's currently broadcast and killing things like football.
    - colin-de-vries 15y ago
      Thank you for the answers. The replies makes sense to me. I just read that if you upload a Michael Jackson song you can get 5 years in prison. That's one year longer then what the doctor who killed him got.

marknutter 15y ago

Does anyone know if YT is actually turning a profit for Google yet?

Zirro 15y ago

I would love if they provided some daily, or even live statistics. How much space and bandwidth are these videos consuming? Seeing this printed on a graph for the last 24 hours, month and year would be interesting too.

fpp 15y ago

4 Billion videos a day, I'm always astounded by such numbers - who is watching that many Videos? A bit of common sense: - World population: 7 Billion - Estimated total Internet users (including those that can't use videos due to bandwidth/volume limits): 2 Billion - estimated max. potential Internet users for YouTube: 1 Billion - estimated max. daily active users for YouTube: 500-800 Million so everybody on this planet that is continuously using the Internet has to watch at least 5-8 videos on YouTube everyday - 365 days a years. To me that looks like there is an army of bots out there creating loads of statistical noise & billions of page views. Guess we'll never know for sure as billions of dollars are made every year with online marketing and advertising that is closely linked to such statistics.