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One Billion Hours of YouTube Are Watched Every Day (thenextweb.com)
YouTube announced in a blog post that people around the world are now watching a billion hours of YouTube videos every single day. According to YouTube, "If you were to sit and watch a billion hours of YouTube, it would take you over 100,000 years." Mashable reports: The milestone "represents the enjoyment of the fantastically diverse videos that creative people make every single day," Cristos Goodrow, VP of engineering at YouTube, wrote in a blog post Monday. "Around the world, people are spending a billion hours every day rewarding their curiosity, discovering great music, keeping up with the news, connecting with their favorite personalities, or catching up with the latest trend." The 1 billion figure is a 10-fold increase since 2012, YouTube said. The statistic is one that underscores YouTube's efforts to dominate the digital space. On YouTube -- which operates under the motto "Broadcast Yourself" -- users upload 400 hours of video each minute, or 65 years of video a day.
One Billion Hours of YouTube Are Watched Every Day. And some of them don't involve cats.
We keep asking ourselves what we're gonna do when robots take over our jobs. Watch Youtube, of course!
Perhaps state allocations should be made dependent on the watched hours per week or something.
one billion hours - smells like BS.
world population 6 billion - how many with poor internet access.
Yeah i have to wonder how much of that is auto play as well. I am guilty of that often, watch a video on chromecast then I've walked off and doing something else or fallen asleep and it just goes on auto playing random stuff for hours at a time. Im doing that right now, having watched some travel documentaries and i am now in the other room on the PC as it go on auto playing more related content.
These days ive been using youtube as my primary source of video "entertainment" primarily watching documentary and technical type stuff on there. Alot of that kind of content is pretty good, and the autoplay is pretty good as well. You can look up some topic on youtube and just get hours of related content once it goes autoplay.
Working in the cable industry i have comped cable service at home that i never watch any more these days everything is just garbage on there. Youtube has better quality content being produced by one man and small group content creators than the big mega media companies can do these days. About the only time i'll ever switch on my cable box is if there is something newsworthy Id like to watch live. I think the presidential election night was the last time i had my cable box turned on. whenever i am no longer working for the company the video service will be the 1st thing i drop once it isn't comped any longer.
I don't watch any TV broadcasts. I only watch content I've discovered or followed on Youtube. I doubt I'm the only one.
i ****ed up and sold my utube stock. time to get back in.
i care about my Internet access.
I am sure there a lot of people with poor internet access, personally I think my internet access sucks balls, but that's beside the point.
There are three kinds of falsehood: the first is a 'fib,' the second is a downright lie, and the third is statistics.
I'm on Youtube all day at work, but I don't watch anything, I just listen to the music.
What a waste of time
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
According to YouTube they have about 1 billion unique users a month. So if all were using YouTube every day, that would mean on average one hour of YouTube watching every single day. Still quite possible, but only if those users all visit YouTube every day, and it's an average, so many people watch much more than that. For me, few days pass without YouTube but normally not more than 5-10 minutes or so, mostly linked from my Facebook news feed, and sometimes tutorials and so. More than an hour in a day is rare.
However, according to this web site, some 30 million users use YouTube every day, and 6 billion hours a month. I don't know where they get their statistics, but the daily total is only 1/5 of the YouTube statistic given above. 30 million a day is indeed nearly 1 billion a month, so that's a sensible number, based on how you count "unique users", of course. Many of those will be repeat users. Anyway, at 30 million visitors a day, each visitor has to watch 33.3 hours of video a day. That's impossible - at least in my world, where a day contains just 24 hours. If that number is also off by a factor of 5, it'd be nearly 7 hours a day, on average. Even with a full zero missing for the daily visitors number, it'd be on average over 3 hours of video per user.
No matter how I try to look at this number, it just doesn't make sense.
In Trump's America, Youtube watches you!
If you were to sit and watch a billion hours of YouTube, it would take you over 100,000 years.
Eh, I bet I can do that in 60,000 years, tops.
Does this include those pesky video ads included on web-pages to slow them down? Or are they served from elsewhere (not embedded)?
I wonder how much of this is uploads of copyrighted RIAA music? It seems to be a 50-50 split to me of bootleg concert footage and illicit rips. Not that I care, but YouTube is one of the main platforms that millennials use to consume their content, including music, so it's interesting to see where this is going or if / when the RIAA will start screaming for everything to be taken down as they continue to become less relevant.
How many are watched all the way through? Or even more than 15s.
They get streamed. Embedded videos are counted, they are everwhere, and they auto play. The average user has no idea what is going on or how to stop it. This as disengenuous as a lot of advertising click-through data. Whatever, try again, Silicon Valley. Someday they will realize when it's too late that big data is actually a false friend and not to be relied on in it's gross misrepresentations of reality.
There are plenty of tv shows available on youtube between my wife and tv shows and my son with game reviews, walk throughs, and video playlists he pops on to listen to but not watch I would say my household is close 6 hours for two people.
They might as well buy Western Digital, Seagate and/or Toshiba at this point.
#DeleteFacebook
My favorite YouTube videos at the moment are the ones by machinists. I have no aptitude or experience in this area, but for some reason I find it relaxing to watch machinists work while describing what they're doing. I also have no plans to actually do any machinist stuff, but I find the videos absorbing. I also like to watch fishing videos even though I do not fish.
Here's one that's particularly meditative for me. It's well-known YouTube machinist "tubalcain" giving a tour of his tool box.
https://youtu.be/rvM_SRrvvHo
You are welcome on my lawn.
the biggest time waster since time began.
720p30 h264 video with reasonable audio ends up being roughly 1-1.5GiB/hour. We'll just say 1.5GiB since it's probably the case that it's skewed toward the upper end since I think people mostly want better quality video if it's available or the best quality that their connection will tolerate. I'm sure a lot of those hours are on lower resolutions and a lot are on higher resolutions.
At 1.5GiB an hour, we'd be looking at 1.5 billion GiB per day. Puts us roughly around 1.4EiB per day. I can only imagine what kind of infrastructure you'd need to make that work.
Don't sleep, the clowns will eat me.
I'm just downloading a local copy for my flight.
I can take a hint, time to get back to work.
I'm a good cook. I'm a fantastic eater. - Steven Brust
It's not true that "If you were to sit and watch a billion hours of YouTube, it would take you over 100,000 years." YouTube did not DeDup the videos; if the billion hours were all of one video, then it would only take an hour to watch those billion hours. A more interesting take would be how many different videos are watched (w and w/o porn). Sometimes
1) repetition would be interesting (most popular cat video, or porn), and
2) maybe some scientific or how-to videos are important even if they are only seen a few times, since they are like entries in a dictionary that are rarely looked at, but vital for completeness