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My 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
by akamaka 17y ago
My 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.