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Over 100 Hours of Video Uploaded To YouTube Every Minute
jones_supa writes "Google's YouTube is celebrating its 8-year birthday, and at the same time they reveal some interesting numbers. 'Today, more than 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. That's more than four days of video uploaded each minute! Every month, more than 1 billion people come to YouTube to access news, answer questions and have a little fun. That's almost one out of every two people on the Internet. Millions of partners are creating content for YouTube and more than 1,000 companies worldwide have mandated a one-hour mid-day break to watch nothing but funny YouTube videos. Well, we made that last stat up, but that would be cool (the other stats are true).'"
How many hours of video per minute are people watching?
I wonder how big, in terms of storage, is the server farm to maintain this monstrosity.
In a way Youtube beats time... but that gives an idea of the bandwidth available upstream (downstream being even more monstrous)
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
Stuff that matters.
As we used to say 13 years ago:
It must be a slow news day.
At the rate youtube is expanding the electrons in this universe may soon vanish. Could data become so dense that a black hole is formed?
Some large and influential copyright owners are unhappy with the OCILLA safe harbor as interpreted in Viacom v. YouTube and have pushed for requiring each uploaded video to be reviewed by a person before it goes live. How much would it cost to employ people to watch 100 hours of video every minute?
I've been doing my part by uploading inane videos of myself eating at my desk in silence.
And even scarier, how many hours of video on YouTube are WORTH watching?
myself eating at my desk in silence
In other words, like Magibon. Unfortunately, such videos might be the only videos allowed on YouTube if Big Copyright gets its way.
How can this be a sustainable business model?
No, i have no background whatsoever in economics and\or management.
It's safe to say that Google acted wisely when they bought YouTube, despite the fact that it was losing money (and continued to for a few years).
I wonder how things have turned out if MS bought YouTube instead?
The Internet King? I wonder if he could provide faster nudity.
But more importantly, how many cat videos is that per hour?
Now I'll never be able to keep up.
Theodore Sturgeon once snapped at critics of science fiction by saying "90 percent of anything is garbage." This "law" has since been ported to other fields.
But in the case of YouTube, Sturgeon's Law would need a few more (or a lot more) nines.
...until the total length of video on YouTube is greater than the age of the universe?
Even allowing for a "power law" access pattern for the videos (and perhaps, Google optimizing storage of frequently-accessed video in RAM or fast disks...), I do wonder how the hell you can access any video in their archive virtually instantly. Their data centres must be MASSIVE.
A LOT
yesterday my son was learning origami via youtube videos. way better than a $20 book like when i was a kid
Some folks have actual advertising deals where they get paid (less YOuTube commission) when you watch their video.
And then there's the little side videos of "you may be interested in this.".
And then there are the adverts placed in your search.
I have to exert some willpower now and again to not become annoyed at all of the garbage on YouTube (or the Internet for that matter).
The wisdom of George Carlin is immensely helpful in this regard: "Have you ever noticed that their stuff is **** and your **** is stuff?"
RIP, sir.
And I don't mean text search for keywords associated with the video. I mean if I upload a photo of my buddy Mike to Google Video search, return all the clips on Youtube that your facial recognition SW thinks include Mike.
I watch it A LOT.
Agreed. And if you take a look at the top subscribed channels, it's not all complete crap or copyrighted-by-someone-else material.
Of course, most of the stuff on that list is not something I'd like to watch, but take any list of commercial TV channels, and I'd feel the same way. :)
In original Star Trek the warp number seed was the cube of light velocity. 100 hours per minute is a 60,000-fold factor or 39-cubed. Even at that speed it would take a year and four months cross the Milky Way from one side to another.
100 hours a minute, and only .00001% worth watching.
Seems like any time someone has a popular video, another user rips it and uploads under their username it to steal hits. The copies and compilations make it really hard to find original content when you're doing searches.
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
How many of those uploads are reposts?
Many popular videos have numerous low quality reposts with appended logos, intros and captions so that individuals can glom onto the original popularity. It's so bad that it's often impossible to find the original video a year, sometimes months, after the original posting.
Makes me wonder how fast they are having to add storage. For that matter, what type of storage are they using to use for the constant read / writes. And that is just for YouTube - forget Gmail, Google Earth, Google Docs and Google. Man, I would love to see pictures of Google's DataCenter. Oh, wait, I can Google it:
http://images.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1536&bih=891&q=google+data+center&oq=google+data+&gs_l=img.3.0.0l9j0i10.648.2409.0.4177.12.11.0.0.0.0.297.1367.3j6j1.10.0...0.0...1ac.1.14.img.4Zg6ztnIvrI
this is all my bad, guys. I upload 100 hours of video about my cat every minute. Maru!
-Magumogu.
They already have millions of reviewers looking at the crap all the time. Just put a 'is it copied?' button next to the video, and after 100 clicks have somebody look at it.
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company -- Mark Twain
Every time I see anything pertaining to YouTube, I always have to fight through the useless crap that's been "thumbed-up" by idiots and or bots. This causes the dumb junk to be at the top of lists, plastered in homepages, etc.; this causes the useful stuff to always be overshadowed by the worthless stuff, which creates the reaction you just posted.
It's a shame, really. YouTube has so much potential for so many ways, and yet, it's just like everything else on the internet: used for the wrong reasons. Go ahead and say I'm overgeneralizing things, but to me and in my opinion, 80% of all YouTube videos are worthless crap about some twerp--who has no life--singing some bullshit song that will be forgotten about this time next year.
Well, the total in 2009 was 110,952 according to Yahoo Canada, fwtw. So 27,738 per year and 76 per day, assuming 4 years of non-stop uploading, slow at first of course but reaching high volumes soon enough. Meow, or should we say nyan? But 111k sounds wayyyyyyyyyy too low...
YouTube used to have "copyright infringement" as one option under the flag button until someone pointed out that it encourages users to commit disparagement of title against videos they dislike.
I bought some web hosting by responding to a spam email.
I come here for the love
How long to upload videos totally 60 million years? You'll need another 416 2/3 days to cover that. And then another 4 days to cover that. Rounding up: 60,000,421 days.
I come here for the love
None, because 35 hours are chicks showing their tits and making vapid "replies" to popular videos. Another 25 hours are chicks with 20 minute videos doing makeup tutorials, 20 hours are chicks coming home from shopping trips and showing what they bought (I'm serious, this is apparently a fucking "thing", now). The remaining 20 are idiots attempting to make viral videos, but possessing no talent. Or jackholes in their basement trying to be the "next big star" like the other 800 obnoxious teenagers with cult following that always makeup the "top 100 of youtube", but just make you think less of humanity as a whole to know people watch them.
Agreed. And if you take a look at the top subscribed channels, it's not all complete crap or copyrighted-by-someone-else material.
To me, working through that list would be a spectacularly bad way of finding videos that are worth watching.