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YouTube's ghost town of billions of unwatched, ignored videos
- snypher 2y agoEstimated 15 billion YouTube videos and only 4% have 0 views. I guess the average video having less than 50 views could also count as 'unwatched'? 4% is less than I would have guessed.
- maeil 2y agoFrom the graph, ~34% is under 17 views.
- dredmorbius 2y agoPower law / Zipf function relations: "Power Law in Popular Media" <https://michaeltauberg.medium.com/power-law-in-popular-media-7d7efef3fb7c https://michaeltauberg.medium.com/power-law-in-popular-media...> Via: <https://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2019/11/14/power-law-in-popular-media/ https://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2019/11/14/power-law-in-p...>
- MarkusWandel 2y agoProbably just quickie uploads to show something to friends, directly from the device on which they were recorded, with only a handful of views from their Whatsapp (or whatever) contacts. I have quite a few of these. Unlisted, in my case, but probably most people don't bother with that, and anyway the random algorithm would find them regardless whether they're listed. I'm actually glad the mega-profit advertising machine that is Youtube still allows this kind of thing. Videos for a small audience that will likely never make them any money.
- zeristor 2y agoThe original article this refers to is here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20250213-youtube-at-20-a-computer-that-drunk-dials-online-videos-reveals-statistics-that-google-doesnt-want-you-to-know https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20250213-youtube-at-20-...
- zeristor 2y agoSo what are the constraints on the YouTube 11 digit code generation? I guess if I had a few thousand YouTube URLs I could analyse them. I’m guessing it’s 11 digits from a limited character set