YouTube Claims 1.5 Billion Monthly Users (cnbc.com) 65
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.
Re:AIDS Claims 1.5 Billion Yearly Lives (Score:4, 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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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 [youtube.com] 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.)
"users" (Score:2)
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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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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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 deliv
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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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The key search phrase you're looking for is "Bridget the Midget."
You're welcome.
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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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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 [google.com]. 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
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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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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 secur
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The numbers don't lie, you're very much in the minority. Do you ever ask yourself why that is?
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:Do you ever ask yourself why that is?
Because Google is evil?
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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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C'mon, their motto is "Don't, be evil!". It's not like they're hiding it.
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They said it without a hint of irony.
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Because OP is lying.
Love youtube red. (Score:4, 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 :)
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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/googl [imore.com]
I didn't know (Score:3)
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Make that 15,999,999,000 users (Score:2)
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 t
Make that 14,999,999,000 users (Score:1)
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 t
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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.
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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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Another superior alternative is a goddam ad blocker.
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You nick sums you up :)
See if you can guess why Google targeted the browser market for hostile takeover.
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See if you can refrain from deflecting and add value to the convo.
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See "dork" above.
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You are dismissed.
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You were never invited.
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At least I brought the ice.
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and I brought the ice pick
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*prick
FTFY
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You brought that, and don't feel bad, size doesn't matter.
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With hands, it does.
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lolwut?
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
my kids account for about 100 people then (Score:2)
they are always watching the ads made up like videos for gaming and other stupid things
users? (Score:2)
Wow, only 250m views on YT Red? (Score:2)
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.
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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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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.
I would bet (Score:2)
the number is an understatement. Welcome to 1984 (30 years late).