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News YouTube serves 100m a day

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  1. WilHarris

    WilHarris Just another nobody Moderator

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    WilHarris, 17 Jul 2006
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  2. chemo

    chemo True Jungle Brother

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    huge numbers there for youtube, no doubt google will be in hot competition now.
    i do love the odd session on youtube though
     
    chemo, 17 Jul 2006
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  3. Firehed

    Firehed Why not? I own a domain to match.

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    Well the quality does suck, but there's really no beating the covenience. I just used it for the first time, and it was very simple. No need to have a stupid standalone uploader like with Google Video. Admittedly, Google's video quality is somewhat higher, but it's still a royal pain (especially if you're not using Windows, since they tend to be a bit slower in dev for Macs and Linux, though I think the video uploader they have for everything at this point).

    Plus the whole free thing.
     
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  4. scq

    scq What's a Dremel?

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    I like the convenience and fast streaming of Flash video. Quality is definetly not on par with stuff like HD Quicktime, but nothing beats near-instant streaming.

    As for advertising, can Youtube even advertise? They have some text ads here and there, but never on video pages. Since their only excuse from avoiding lawsuits is that they're making no money from the copyrighted content, wouldn't advertising jeopardize their forte?
     
    scq, 18 Jul 2006
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  5. crazydeep74

    crazydeep74 What's a Dremel?

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    Wow, I wonder what they host on. They must pay some big money for there hosting bills.
     
    crazydeep74, 18 Jul 2006
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  6. Solidus

    Solidus Superhuman

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    Thats the question id like to know O_O
     
    Solidus, 18 Jul 2006
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  7. apoogod

    apoogod trix arent just for kids

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    Id like to know how they make any money
     
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  8. Atomic

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    YouTube's is on http://www.limelightnetworks.com/
     
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  9. Spaced_invader

    Spaced_invader What's a Dremel?

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    If only that argument would hold... Would that not mean that every peer to peer site and user could then use that excuse...

    and as to their hosting bills this must run into the hundreds of thousands with the amount of data they are shifting...
     
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  10. TGImages

    TGImages Grandpa

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    Heard a rumor a few days back that YouTube is burning a million a day in bandwidth costs.

    I guess it wouldn't be too hard to figure out... 100 million videos a day (evenly distributed viewing for ease of calculations) is bit over 4 million an hour which is about 70,000 videos a minute or about 1100 a second. What's an average video size? 1mb? 1/2 mb? 2 mb? Multiply that times 1100 and there is your rough bandwidth requirements.

    Now I have to agree with the other assessments. How are they going to continue to pay for this?
     
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  11. ch424

    ch424 Design Warrior

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    Yeah, $1m/day is what I heard too. I think Yahoo are funding it, along with Flickr and some other stuff.

    ch424
     
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  12. Atomic

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    http://www.forbes.com/home/intellig...27/video-youtube-myspace_cx_df_0428video.html


    I'd bet there is more than one source funding it.
     
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  13. DXR_13KE

    DXR_13KE BananaModder

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    "2.5 billion videos viewed from it in the month of May"
    thats a lot of pron. :naughty:
     
    DXR_13KE, 18 Jul 2006
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  14. apoogod

    apoogod trix arent just for kids

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    thats the thing, I thought youtube dont let porn on
     
    apoogod, 18 Jul 2006
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  15. Atomic

    Atomic Gerwaff

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    they dont, a small amount of nudity can be allowed if its to do with the video.
     
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