How many?!?!?!

Robbie Comeau

Robbie Comeau

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Videos are on youtube?

The number must be sickening.

Think about it, there's SO many artists and songs in this world, that if you type it in the search engine, it'll 95 % be there. Now that's JUST the music side. think about how much other stuff could be on there.

Where can you find the number of youtube videos?

Robbie
 
I'm not sure where you could find the total number of videos available - but as far as the videos that are actually watched...
11 Billion videos are viewed online in one month in the US alone - up 64% from last year.
I'm pretty sure the majority of those are on You Tube.

I'd have to find the source on that - I believe it was Comscore.
And that was from back in March, It's probably higher right now.

EDITED TO ADD:
It was Comscore.
Just found numbers for July - looks like roughly 5 billion videos watched on YouTube alone in that month:
http://ir.comscore.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=333578

That gives you a rough idea.

Though I'm pretty sure this is measuring video views...not videos viewed
(their language is a little unclear)
 
According to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube

Few statistics are publicly available regarding the number of videos on YouTube. However, in July 2006, the company revealed that more than 100 million videos were being watched every day, and 2.5 billion videos were watched in June 2006. 50,000 videos were being added per day in May 2006, and this increased to 65,000 by July. In January 2008 alone, nearly 79 million users had made over 3 billion video views.

In August 2006, The Wall Street Journal published an article revealing that YouTube was hosting about 6.1 million videos (requiring about 45 terabytes of storage space), and had about 500,000 user accounts. As of April 9, 2008, a YouTube search returns about 83.4 million videos and 3.75 million user channels. It is estimated that in 2007, YouTube consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000, and that over 13 hours of video are uploaded every minute. In March 2008, its bandwidth costs were estimated at approximately $1 million a day.
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Larry R said:
According to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube
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WoW!

I've always been curious about this. Thanks for the find Larry. So now this opens up a whole bunch of other questions. Do they actually make a profit? I guess that depends if they rack up $1 million plus in ad revenue a day.

And who in the hell is their Host company? That company must be rich. And is it at all possible for them to run out of space? Interesting questions I would love to know. Maybe I'll wikipedia it.
 
From that same web link, the next paragraph:

As of Q1 2008, YouTube was not profitable, with its revenues in 2007 being noted as "not material" by Google in a regulatory filing. Exact revenue or profit numbers are not published, but a June 2008 Forbes magazine article projected the 2008 revenue at $200 million, noting progress in ad sales. At that time, the price for an ad on the YouTube home page was $175,000 per day (plus a $50,000 commitment to buy Google/YouTube ads elsewhere), and a branded channel (distinguished by a customized background) cost advertisers $200,000.
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Multi-billionaire.

Interesting that when television was invented, they predicted the end of the business. They being the "film" industry. Gradually television became the mutli-billion dollar marketplace that is (was). I fully expect that millions of eyeballs on YouTube will eventually translate to gazillions of dollars. I'm actually a bit surprised by how long it's taking. I think mainstream industries are dragging their feet.
 
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