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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.
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?
How can this be a sustainable business model?
No, i have no background whatsoever in economics and\or management.
But more importantly, how many cat videos is that per hour?
...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
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.
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. :)
Same thing that happened with hotmail. They switch to Windows servers, it crashes and burns horribly, so they switch back. There's no quality control, no development, it goes to hell, and everyone switches to the far superior service Google offers (since they decided to grow their own and not acquire youtube).
Then they switch everyone over to zune.com or something to try capitalizing on their name .. or perhaps trying to gain a name, it's hard to tell really .. complete with commercials about people deleting hundreds of hours of video in a single click in the middle of other unrelated activities, because you know that's the feature we've all really been missing.
Don't think of it as a flame---it's more like an argument that does 3d6 fire damage
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.
I've got an idea to fire back at them. Require all takedown notices to be reviewed by a human person before being submitted. Then in exchange, Google will promise to have a human review each takedown notice on THEIR end as well. If Google finds a violation - they take it down. If they don't find a violation - the people who sent the complaint are billed for Google's review time!!
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
peter303 doesn't explain well and is bad at arithmetic.
The original Star Trek writers' notes from the 60s have an equation to figure out the Warp Factor (the 5 in "plot a course to Earth, Warp 5"). Divide the speed of the ship by the speed of light and take the cube root. So Warp 1 is equivalent to the speed of light (the cube root of 1) and warp 10 would be 1000 times the speed of light. it's a pretty simple scale.
I think he is trying to say that if you took "hours per minute" as a speed(which makes no sense) it'd be warp factor 39. He starts off by saying that 100 hours/minute is "a 60,000 fold" factor. As near as I can tell from what he says he means 6,000 (change hours to minutes to get 6,000 minutes/minute). Then I think he is saying that to get a speed of 60,000 times the speed of light you'd need warp 39. This is correct enough, 39.15.
So if you wanted 6,000 times the speed of light that'd be warp 18.17.
none of this explains why he saw "hours/minute" and decided it was a speed to change into a warp factor...
These days, the slow news days are as abundant as cheap crap videos on youtube...
Tomorrow is another day...
this is all my bad, guys. I upload 100 hours of video about my cat every minute. Maru!
-Magumogu.
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.
Okay, I have a question. In all of internet history, has anyone ever clicked on an advertisement and actually purchased an item? Just wondering.
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