YouTube Gets 1.8 Billion Logged-in Viewers Monthly (engadget.com)

On stage today at Radio City Music Hall, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki made a surprising revelation: the service gets 1.8 billion logged-in viewers every month. And that doesn't include people who aren't logged in -- which means the actual number of people watching YouTube is definitely much higher. From a report: Last June, the service had 1.5 billion logged-in watchers. On TVs alone, people are now watching 150 million hours of YouTube every day. The latest figures are yet another sign that YouTube's reach is staggering, something that Wojcicki wanted to make crystal clear for the audience of advertisers and potential partners at its annual BrandCast event.

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And if it charged 1 cent per view

[Anonymous Coward]

It'd have zero viewers.

YouTube is a radicalization engine

[sinij]

I try to avoid Google tracking as much as possible, as such when using YouTube I can easily see what effects their algorithms have on recommended videos as it is stark contrast with defaults recommendations for when they know nothing about you.

Almost universally, they suggest extreme versions of content you just searched for. For example, searching anything related to climate gets you to doomsday, the end is next year videos. Searching anything related to religion lands you on most radical versions of that content. Searching anything political lands you into directly into conspiracy videos.