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YouTube Stats Revealed, Total Viewing Time: 9,305 Years! | Bob Caswell

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Peter
2 years ago

Youtube will pre-pend ads to all the videos and make a fortune.

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fred
2 years ago

According to AT's head honcho, sites like youtube are getting a free ride so this claim about them paying millions of dollars each month for bandwidth is not valid.

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rick
2 years ago

Fred you are joking right?

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Craig
2 years ago

YouTube will sell soon enough, probably to Google, they like to own everything :)

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Bob Caswell
2 years ago

Pre-pending ads would make a fortune initially, but would it be sustainable? Would users put up with it or switch to alternatives like Google Video?

I agree that YouTube will probably sell, but buy-happy Google has Google Video. Yahoo anyone?

And YouTube free riding?! I hadn't heard that. Source?

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David
2 years ago

Wow, I actually thought it would be a lot more than that. I almost have 1 Terabyte at my home (not completely filled), but I thought the storage would be a lot more than that.

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24pfilms
2 years ago

The issue is not with the "The videos take up 45 terabytes of storage" but more the transfer of data around the globe in and out of the various isp's to get to the final destination, and not have the data recycled within the ISP?

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Bryce
2 years ago

"And YouTube free riding?! I hadn't heard that. Source?"

Don't you remember, the internet is a series of tubes, not a dump truck. YouTube is clogging all the tubes with videos of girls dancing to their favorite music, mostly love songs.

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Bob Caswell
2 years ago

Oh, how did I forget...

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Bob Caswell
2 years ago

But seriously, does anyone really know how bandwidth works? Every time I have the conversation with someone, it seems the assumptions are always different...

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Nick
2 years ago

I keep waiting for youtube to go down in a ball of flaming copyright infringement lawsuits.

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Son Nguyen
2 years ago

Yes, I'm seeing those lawsuits coming for them too, but they really ignited the video serving market.

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blargo
2 years ago

The will just put an ad at the end of every video, that way they still get the ads shown and that way users can decide whether they watch it or not. The idea is much like banner ads, the user can decide to ignore it or watch it. The main point in doing this will be to make the intro of the ad seamless, so that it catches the users interest and blends well with the video being shown (maybe a fade to black after every video, and a fade in to ad).

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web design uk
2 years ago

Wow I've always wondered about the more detailed YouTube stats ever since hearing that they hit 100 million video views per day!

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Erich
2 years ago

Yeah, I have a lil' over a terabyte in storage, as well. 45 terabytes isn't that much, anymore.

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hapbt
2 years ago

Youtube is awesome! Bets on how long before Yahoo or Google buys them out? Or will it be MS?

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Blah
2 years ago

I've heard that NBC owns part of Youtube, in which case, they probably won't be bought out, unless it's completely bought out by the network... Dunno how true that is though...

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Bob Caswell
2 years ago

Whoa, Blah, that would be pretty interesting (the whole NBC-owning-part-of-YouTube thing)... Did you hear that from a friend or could you give us an online source?

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