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I remember reading that the YouTube bandwidth costs cited in this article were way out of wack and beard no semblance to reality. Has anyone seen any updates o
by dantheman 17y ago
I remember reading that the YouTube bandwidth costs cited in this article were way out of wack and beard no semblance to reality. Has anyone seen any updates on those figures? Are they, in fact, correct?
- akamaka 17y agoMy figures: 100.5 million unique viewers in Oct 2008. Average of 53.5 views per user that month. (source: http://www.businessinsider.com/2008/12/youtube-hits-100-million-viewers-hulu-surges http://www.businessinsider.com/2008/12/youtube-hits-100-mill...) Average video size, 10mb. 100.5m * 53.5 * 10 / 1024 = 52m GB served. At a generous price of 5 cents a gigabyte, that works out to about $2.5 million a month, or $31.5 million in 2008.
- jussij 17y agoIMHO Youtube is doing nothing more than buring money. Eventually the money will run out and the flame will die.
- jonknee 17y agoThat doesn't factor in peering, Google is in a ton of data centers and almost every major ISP peers with them (they'd be stupid not to with all the outgoing traffic going to them). Either way the Credit Suisse estimate was way off.