Youtube hit 4 billion views per day

http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/23/youtube-hit-4-billion-views-per-day-deals-with-60-hours-of-uplo/

by Garbage • 15 years ago

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vbtemp• 15 years ago

The thing I love about youtube is that there is never any problem loading the pre-video commercials for Cox internet or whatever. They always come through in HD and without any lag, ever. And then more often then not, I have to turn down the quality of the actual video because it can't stream at a high resolution. Suffice it to say, I don't really use youtube.

Karunamon• 15 years ago

For the love of crap, THIS. I'm glad I'm not the only one who's somewhat miffed that the advertisements are getting preferential treatment to the actual content (the reason people actually GO to youtube).

If I wanted to watch advertisements at the expense of content, I'd subscribe to cable again.

jonknee2• 15 years ago

The preferential treatment is more likely that an advertisement used across many videos is much more likely to be cached at a location near you than a specific video. Still sucks, but it makes sense.

pbj• 15 years ago

While annoying, you have to put things into perspective. You don't have to pay for youtube, and you can watch 30+ minute videos with usually only one or two 15 second ads. Compare that to TV where you're stuck with 5+ minutes of ads for the same 30 minute content. Alternatively, watch Vimeo or something instead, which (correct me if I'm wrong) doesn't show video ads and focuses on higher quality artistic content anyway.

colin-de-vries3• 15 years ago

I dont understand why youtube has no Sopa/Pippa issues? I searched but didn't find a good answer. Could somebody expain that please?

cryptoz• 15 years ago

What do you mean? If SOPA or PIPA had passed, YouTube would certainly have issues. Did the article suggest otherwise to you? As it is, YouTube receives DMCA takedown requests probably every single second, and they comply with them. So they stay alive. It seems the situation was the same with Megaupload, except that they didn't exactly comply all the time.

colin-de-vries3• 15 years ago

I know about the DMCA takedown requests. But as I understand it YouTube has to do their own investigation with each upload. At the rate of 60 hours per minute. That seems a bit difficult if not impossible. In that respect YouTube should be taken offline like they did with mega upload and many other sites. So, why is YouTube not burned like many other websites. There are complete series seasons on YouTube. I guess i was just expecting more commotion around YouTube then there currently is. (For the record, I oppose to Sopa and Pipa)

cristoperb2• 15 years ago

By my reading of SOPA (and I think PIPA is very similar), youtube could not be construed as a foreign site and therefore would not be (directly) affected by SOPA. Of course google, being a DNS service provider, a search engine, and an ad service, would definitely have been affected by SOPA.

onemoreact• 15 years ago

SOPA did not limit it's self to international websites. 1/2 the bill focused on foreign sites the other half applied to US sites.

marknutter• 15 years ago

Does anyone know if YT is actually turning a profit for Google yet?

Zirro• 15 years ago

I would love if they provided some daily, or even live statistics. How much space and bandwidth are these videos consuming? Seeing this printed on a graph for the last 24 hours, month and year would be interesting too.

fpp• 15 years ago

4 Billion videos a day, I'm always astounded by such numbers - who is watching that many Videos? A bit of common sense:

- World population: 7 Billion

- Estimated total Internet users (including those that can't use videos due to bandwidth/volume limits): 2 Billion

- estimated max. potential Internet users for YouTube: 1 Billion

- estimated max. daily active users for YouTube: 500-800 Million

so everybody on this planet that is continuously using the Internet has to watch at least 5-8 videos on YouTube everyday - 365 days a years. To me that looks like there is an army of bots out there creating loads of statistical noise & billions of page views.

Guess we'll never know for sure as billions of dollars are made every year with online marketing and advertising that is closely linked to such statistics.

Youtube hit 4 billion views per day

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