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YouTube Claims 1.5 Billion Monthly Users (cnbc.com)

Posted by msmash on from the scale-and-speed dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Google's YouTube unit says it now reaches 1.5 billion viewers every month -- and its users watch more than an hour of mobile videos per day -- as it expands its video programming to sell more digital ads. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki also wrote that YouTube Red, the company's foray into original videos, has launched 37 series that have generated "nearly a quarter billion views." YouTube Red has 12 new projects in the works, she said.

65 comments

  1. AIDS Claims 1.5 Billion Yearly Lives by BeauHD+(4450103) · · Score: 0

    Why are we not writing stories about that atrocity?

    1. Re:AIDS Claims 1.5 Billion Yearly Lives by sycodon · · Score: 3, Funny

      1.5 billion?

      Are you sure?

      We'd all be gone in about 6 years.

      I realize there are many here who would view tat as a good thing, but yer math needs some help.

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    2. Re:AIDS Claims 1.5 Billion Yearly Lives by swillden · · Score: 1

      1.5 billion?

      Are you sure?

      We'd all be gone in about 6 years.

      I realize there are many here who would view tat as a good thing, but yer math needs some help.

      Heh. That's almost as good as the Virginia governor's repeated claim that the US loses 93 million lives per day to gun violence. If true, the US population would be wiped out in less than four days. (When called on it, it he clarified that he meant 93 per day, not 93 million per day. That figure is reasonably correct if you include suicides. It seems like more than a slip of the tongue, though, because he stated the 93 million figure twice, and enunciated it slowly and forcefully.)

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  2. "users" by OrangeTide · · Score: 1

    While there are only 9.2 million who use heroin worldwide.

    YouTube addiction is a few orders of magnitude more serious than we thought!

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    1. Re:"users" by sycodon · · Score: 1

      Maybe that's why YouTube is constantly blaming freeze frames and spinning videos on my local ISP.

      Oh, but wait. switching to PornHub, I get 720 and even HD playing flawlessly.

      Is it REALLY possible that YouTube is playing more videos that the Porn sites?

      No way!

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    2. Re:"users" by Rockoon · · Score: 1

      This. Frequently around prime time YouTube (GOOGLE) tells me how terrible my ISP is, meanwhile my ISP gives me full 50-mbit downloads of midget porn with power tools.

      The fact is that YouTube (GOOGLE) are fucking lying about the issue and have been from the beginning. The issue is that YouTube (GOOGLE) directs you to a specific CDN based entirely on the location of the name server you are using rather than your actual location. This means that even if your ISP has a nice YouTube (GOOGLE) CDN that can deliver terabits of YouTube video per second, it wont use it if your name server is one of the public ones located on another leg of the internet (such as GOOGLES public name servers.)

      Its been a douche bag move from the beginning. They were pretending that their lazy routing wasn't the fucking problem, and conveniently that was right when they were trying to strong-arm other ISP's isnt expanding their interlinks with Google and press of "Net Neutrality" was all the rage. Fucking scumbags.

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    3. Re:"users" by CaptainDork · · Score: 1

      Your credibility sucks.

      We have a long history whereby you mention shit like

      midget porn

      but you never share a link.

      You only think of yourself.

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    4. Re:"users" by KGIII · · Score: 1

      Over the winter, I was at YouTube when something strange happened. For about 10 minutes, every "recommended" video was Japanese porn - looked like from the 70s or 80s, complete with pixilation covering penetration. It went on for the ten minutes I played around. I went back a half hour later and the behavior had stopped. I never saw a single news article reporting on it.

      I'm not sure where I'm going with this, except I was really surprised that nobody published anything about it. It makes me wonder how secure they are and how accurate their things like stats are.

      Wait, I take that back - sort of... It appears someone else noticed on Nov. 30th, and posted to the Reddit site. So, I still wonder how much is legitimate traffic and how secure they really are.

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    5. Re:"users" by KGIII · · Score: 1

      The key search phrase you're looking for is "Bridget the Midget."

      You're welcome.

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    6. Re:"users" by lgw · · Score: 1

      Maybe that's why YouTube is constantly blaming freeze frames and spinning videos on my local ISP.

      Oh, but wait. switching to PornHub, I get 720 and even HD playing flawlessly.

      Is it REALLY possible that YouTube is playing more videos that the Porn sites?

      No way!

      YouTube's back end just sucks [insert PornHub joke here]. I get frozen videos from time to time, and even YT admits its not my ISP when I click on their little tool [insert PornHub joke here].

      Get your CDN act together Google.

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    7. Re: "users" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I wish. All that this indicates is that they are the preferred platform for shenanigans. If they only counted their actual, legitimate, *active* users, it would like be a third of that, if not less. Google can suck it. :/

    8. Re:"users" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "...with power tools"

    9. Re:"users" by KGIII · · Score: 1

      LOL They only quoted the midget part. I do sorta remember an image where she was taking on a bunch of construction workers. You may need specialty porn, if you want power tools and midgets. Hell, I'm not even going to Google that.

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    10. Re:"users" by slimjim8094 · · Score: 1

      The issue is that YouTube (GOOGLE) directs you to a specific CDN based entirely on the location of the name server you are using rather than your actual location. This means that even if your ISP has a nice YouTube (GOOGLE) CDN that can deliver terabits of YouTube video per second, it wont use it if your name server is one of the public ones located on another leg of the internet (such as GOOGLES public name servers.

      Not true. https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/faq#cdn. Most site's nameservers that serve geo-sensitive results (including Youtube's) respect the edns-client-subnet information that most public DNS resolvers send, including Google's Public DNS. That means that regardless of where the public nameserver is located, it'll fetch the appropriate results from the authority as if it was on your network.

      If other sites work at full speed, it's possible that your ISP's peering with Google is the bottleneck, not the last mile. It would be tricky to get much visibility into that though.

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  3. I will never join Youtube, and by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I will never join Youtube and presumably an evil Alphabet corp, and because of that, I will forever be denied access to 720p videos, which apparently give me a nagging popup screen, if I watch too many videos on youtube.

    1. Re:I will never join Youtube, and by OrangeTide · · Score: 2

      The numbers don't lie, you're very much in the minority. Do you ever ask yourself why that is?

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    2. Re:I will never join Youtube, and by Tough+Love · · Score: 1

      :Do you ever ask yourself why that is?

      Because Google is evil?

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    3. Re:I will never join Youtube, and by OrangeTide · · Score: 1

      Because Google is evil?

      And only a handful of people are smart enough to recognize this, and have take the time to enlighten the rest of us poor fools. Sure that is one possible explanation.

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    4. Re:I will never join Youtube, and by CaptainDork · · Score: 1

      Because OP is lying.

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    5. Re:I will never join Youtube, and by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      With a 160 IQ I am smarter than 99.99% of the population. That makes me a minority. Being a minority is not necessarily bad. Although it means you have to put up with everyone being dumber than you.

    6. Re:I will never join Youtube, and by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Either delete the cookie, or use an extension in Firefox that allows to "delete" elements as you go (Nuke Anything Enhanced "removes" elements on a web page)
      A third solution is to use a specialized youtube player like smtube (but that seems to rely on a third party server?)
      Fourth solution is to use the tor browser to play youtube (whatever you think of that.. there are also political videos.). You can even block youtube from the rest of your computer and still get it there.
      Fifth solution is to use youtube-dl. There's another software tool to use it wit tor but it doesn't work ("socket error"), I wonder if it's a case of "works on my machine".
      A sixth solution is... etc.

      Worst case, you will be tracked but don't have to "agree" to the EULA they try to inflict on you.

    7. Re: I will never join Youtube, and by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It doesn't show.

    8. Re:I will never join Youtube, and by lgw · · Score: 1

      C'mon, their motto is "Don't, be evil!". It's not like they're hiding it.

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    9. Re:I will never join Youtube, and by OrangeTide · · Score: 1

      They said it without a hint of irony.

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  4. Love youtube red. by BrookHarty · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Love youtube red for podcasts, it plays with the screen off. Google even throws in google music for free. There are free alternatives to give you screen off on youtube, but I really enjoy the product.

    Now if they would just stop censoring and demonizing the people I watch. LEAVE PEWDIEPIE ALONE! - lol, sorry couldn't resist :)

    1. Re:Love youtube red. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You know how else to play YouTube vids with the screen off? In a browser (if you can find a way for YT links to not automatically open the app if it's installed).

      Means you don't need to pay for YouTube Red so you can stick it to a company who removed an existing feature from their app just so they can reintroduce it when you pay them some money. Removing features for non-technical reasons just so they can charge you extra is not something we should fucking celebrate!!!

    2. Re:Love youtube red. by sootman · · Score: 2

      My kid watches tons of youtube (and I watch a fair amount) and I had been thinking about getting Red for a while so he won't see so many ads, and lucky me -- you get a free 3 months to start if you sign up now.

      Parents, if your kids are going to watch youtube all summer anyway, at least you can prevent them from seeing quite so many ads.

      Not a shill, just a happy customer. :-) youtube.com/red (See? A shill would have made that a clickable link. :D )

      Here's a thing about Red + Music: https://www.imore.com/google-p...

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  5. I didn't know by toonces33 · · Score: 2

    I didn't know that people liked cat videos that much.

    1. Re:I didn't know by OneoFamillion · · Score: 1

      C'mon, there's also videos of dudes getting kicked in the balls, and girls endlessly pondering what to wear.

  6. Make that 15,999,999,000 users by Tough+Love · · Score: 1

    Make that 15,999,999,999 users. Because I, for one, am swearing off Youtube forever, because of the intolerable level of advertising now inflicted on me. Not only is the advertising far too frequent, it is consistently irrelevant and tasteless. Also delivered at a volume level consistently higher than the average video. (I thought that was a trick used only by sleazebag crap radio operators.) There are several superior alternatives, including Vimeo, which more often than not has the video I am looking for these days, and without abusive/evil region restrictions.

    The "don't be evil" left the Google building long ago.

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    1. Re:Make that 15,999,999,000 users by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      a 6-digit UID who doesn't know about adblockers? Unpossible!

    2. Re:Make that 15,999,999,000 users by CaptainDork · · Score: 1

      Another superior alternative is a goddam ad blocker.

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    3. Re:Make that 15,999,999,000 users by theweatherelectric · · Score: 1

      because of the intolerable level of advertising now inflicted on me

      You don't have to tolerate it. Just use an ad blocker and that will solve a problem.

    4. Re:Make that 15,999,999,000 users by Tough+Love · · Score: 1

      Now that Google has used its monopoly power successfully to obtain dominance in the previously open browser market, guess what is going to happen to your clever ad blocker strategy.

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    5. Re:Make that 15,999,999,000 users by Tough+Love · · Score: 1

      You nick sums you up :)

      See if you can guess why Google targeted the browser market for hostile takeover.

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    6. Re:Make that 15,999,999,000 users by CaptainDork · · Score: 1

      See if you can refrain from deflecting and add value to the convo.

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    7. Re:Make that 15,999,999,000 users by theweatherelectric · · Score: 1

      guess what is going to happen to your clever ad blocker strategy

      Nothing will happen to it because I'll keep using Firefox. You should use Firefox too and that will help address the problem of Google's dominance of the browser market.

    8. Re:Make that 15,999,999,000 users by Tough+Love · · Score: 1

      See "dork" above.

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    9. Re:Make that 15,999,999,000 users by CaptainDork · · Score: 1

      You are dismissed.

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    10. Re:Make that 15,999,999,000 users by Tough+Love · · Score: 1

      You were never invited.

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    11. Re:Make that 15,999,999,000 users by CaptainDork · · Score: 1

      At least I brought the ice.

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    12. Re:Make that 15,999,999,000 users by Tough+Love · · Score: 1

      and I brought the ice pick

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    13. Re:Make that 15,999,999,000 users by CaptainDork · · Score: 1

      *prick

      FTFY

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    14. Re:Make that 15,999,999,000 users by Tough+Love · · Score: 1

      I do use Firefox. I feel that that Google intentionally (and arguably illegally) tries to undermine Firefox by various stratagems. For the most part, successfully.

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    15. Re:Make that 15,999,999,000 users by Tough+Love · · Score: 1

      You brought that, and don't feel bad, size doesn't matter.

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    16. Re:Make that 15,999,999,000 users by CaptainDork · · Score: 1

      With hands, it does.

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    17. Re:Make that 15,999,999,000 users by Tough+Love · · Score: 1

      lolwut?

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  7. Make that 14,999,999,000 users by Tough+Love · · Score: 0

    Make that 14,999,999,999 users. Because I, for one, am swearing off Youtube forever, because of the intolerable level of advertising now inflicted on me. Not only is the advertising far too frequent, it is consistently irrelevant and tasteless. Also delivered at a volume level consistently higher than the average video. (I thought that was a trick used only by sleazebag crap radio operators.) There are several superior alternatives, including Vimeo, which more often than not has the video I am looking for these days, and without abusive/evil region restrictions.

    The "don't be evil" left the Google building long ago.

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    1. Re:Make that 14,999,999,000 users by omnichad · · Score: 1

      Make that 15,999,999,999 users

      Make that 14,999,999,999 users.

      You wanna try that again? Hint, commas and periods don't show up if you're reading the headline via the URL.

    2. Re:Make that 14,999,999,000 users by Tough+Love · · Score: 1

      You wanna try that again? Hint, commas and periods don't show up if you're reading the headline via the URL.

      Dunno, were you able to figure out what I meant? Or?...

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  8. my kids account for about 100 people then by known_coward_69 · · Score: 1

    they are always watching the ads made up like videos for gaming and other stupid things

  9. Ads? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Ads on Youtube is a terrible idea. I hope that never happens.

  10. users? by turkeydance · · Score: 1

    victims.

  11. "watch" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Free music isn't "watched".

  12. Wow, only 250m views on YT Red? by NewtonsLaw · · Score: 1

    Gosh, 250m views for YouTube Read series... that's actually much less than I expected.

    Hell, there are plenty of individuals with channels that have way more than 250m views. Even the Gangnam vid has much more views than that.

    If I was YT, I'd be pretty disappointed with those figures.

    1. Re:Wow, only 250m views on YT Red? by Dunbal · · Score: 1

      Even the Gangnam vid has much more views than that.

      Hook up some magnets to a dead grammar nazi and wind some copper wire around his coffin and you have an incredible source of cheap electricity with that post.

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    2. Re:Wow, only 250m views on YT Red? by tepples · · Score: 2

      Gosh, 250m views for YouTube Read series... that's actually much less than I expected.

      YouTube Red is currently limited to the United States and four other countries.

    3. Re:Wow, only 250m views on YT Red? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      it's called ADBLOCK PLUS!

      it's free. use it in your browser today.

    4. Re:Wow, only 250m views on YT Red? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "YouTube Red is currently limited to the United States and four other countries."

      While AdBlockPlus probably works most anywhere in the world, for free.

  13. we can only hope by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Maybe he'll not just leave YouTube, but quit the Internet as well.

  14. I would bet by fred911 · · Score: 1

    the number is an understatement. Welcome to 1984 (30 years late).

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  15. Like Facebook by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Google includes a lot of things. I am sure they are including fake accounts, spam accounts, and bot accounts. Whatever. The 'big' in front of data bothers me, because it isn't. Twatever.

  16. Doubt the claim is true by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I doubt 1.5 billion USERS per month. That means 1.5B different people per month.

    Now, if they change the word USERS for "downloads" (or something similar), then I would believe the claim. Cause a single user can easily watch a dozen YouTube videos per day.

  17. Type of Users by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Yes, but how may of those users are cats?

  18. No ads on youtube for me, and it's free by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "Love youtube red"

    I don't know what universe you're in, but in my browser, YouTube Red is the adblockplus extension with a red icon.

    I don't pay anything for it and I don't see any advertisements.

    So, I miss the part where I should PAY for something which isn't a problem to begin with. I'd rather donate to ABP (and noscript).