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Youtube is 20 years old! "How a computer that 'drunk dials
' videos is exposing YouTube's secrets"
By: Thetis099 Date: February 14, 2025, 8:31 am
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Okay, that bolded part freaks me out a bit! I wonder how this
compares to our collective television viewing time before the
internet?
"Google, which owns YouTube, is quiet about that and many other
details. In February, the company revealed that people who
access YouTube on their TVs collectively watch one billion hours
a day, but total numbers for the platform are an enigma.
Estimates say YouTube has around 2.5 billion monthly users –
almost one in three people on Earth – and the average mobile app
user watches something like 29 hours a month. With that, let's
try some back-of-the-napkin maths.
If we make a few assumptions, and say that monthly viewing
average for app users can be applied across all YouTube users on
both the website and television, we can multiply 2.5 billion by
29 hours. This would tell us that humanity consumes something
like 8.3 million years of videos on YouTube every month. Over 12
months, that adds up to almost 100 million years, hundreds of
times longer than the sum total of human history."
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Re: Youtube is 20 years old! "How a computer that 'drunk d
ials' videos is exposing YouTube's secrets"
By: northbayteky Date: February 14, 2025, 8:54 am
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Since we gave up cable TV for all streaming, it seems we mostly
watch YouTube videos. Mr has a paid subscription so there aren't
commercials.
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Re: Youtube is 20 years old! "How a computer that 'drunk d
ials' videos is exposing YouTube's secrets"
By: MidwestmikkiJ Date: February 14, 2025, 10:22 am
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Mr J has YouTube on our TVs. I'd say he watches maybe 2 hours a
day and not every day. I never watch it on my own on the TV. I
occasionally watch something on my laptop or I Pad but I bet not
even 2 or 3 hours a week.
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