dreamwest Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 I read here a while ago some ppl thought YouTube was getting unlimited storage and bandwidth for next to nothing. Article excerpt: In August 2006, The Wall Street Journal published an article revealing that YouTube was hosting about 6.1 million videos (requiring about 600 terabytes of storage space), and had about 500,000 user accounts.[5] As of April 9, 2008, a YouTube search returns about 83.4 million videos and 3.75 million user channels.[6][7] It is estimated that in 2007, YouTube consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000, and that around 13 hours of video are uploaded every minute.[8][9][10] In March 2008, its bandwidth costs were estimated at approximately $1 million a day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonLewis Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 HA! Wouldn't surprise me, the amount of people visiting that site and placing videos from YouTube on their own sites. It would be costing them a fortune. I wonder how much money they rake in... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ardyandkari Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 i think that this is funny: It is estimated that in 2007, YouTube consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000 the way that this reads, it seems as if youtube wasnt on the internet...it should be the rest of the internet...i dont know how they can estimate that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonLewis Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 Well it's from Wikipedia so it must be true. It's crazy... In January 2008 alone, nearly 79 million users had made over 3 billion video views. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 I read here a while ago some ppl thought YouTube was getting unlimited storage and bandwidth for next to nothing. I think you'll find those comments where sarcasm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ardyandkari Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 Well it's from Wikipedia so it must be true. oooooh.... you got me there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewooleymammoth Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 i find it hard to believe youtube pays a million a day, im sure they own there own servers and just have to constantly get more and more hard drives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 "However, delivering all those free video clips isn’t cheap. YouTube sends a staggering 1,000 gigabytes of data every second, or nearly 300 billion GBs each month. Several industry insiders estimate that YouTube spends roughly $1 million a day just to pay for the bandwidth to host the videos." http://techland.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/03/25/youtube-looks-for-the-money-clip/ No source given for either statement, and it's estimated. It could be less, could be more. Bandwidth isn't exactly cheap when it comes to 300B GB/month, so if that's true, I wouldn't be surprised if it's $1 mil/day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stooney Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 At that price couldn't they just buy out their ISP and not worry about paying themselves? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 Hrmmm good point.... For all we know, they are their own ISP, and those are still their operating costs ;p. Does Google function as their own ISP? Ya know, I guess technically everything goes uphill with that, so unless they're at the very top, wouldn't they be paying someone? No idea how higher up ISPs work. ISPs' ISPs lol. (Or atleast equal to the very top.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bastones Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 Not sure if Google are making as much revenue as they could or should be making for YouTube, therefore Google is added new video ads or something another to generate more revenue. I find it difficult to see how Google makes revenue out of YouTube really - maybe they need to start making subscription based services or something to bring in revenue they need. Google's shares are down recently too, so don't know what this means for Google. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 Incase you haven't noticed bastones, the entire stock market is down ;p. (Although Google started going down before the 'crash'.) I would imagine they make money simply off of ads. I guess ads on large sites like that pull in a ton of money. Don't know why else MySpace, Facebook and some other sites would've sold for hundreds of millions or billions of dollars. I don't see where the money is either lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkWater Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 Incase you haven't noticed bastones, the entire stock market is down ;p. (Although Google started going down before the 'crash'.) I would imagine they make money simply off of ads. I guess ads on large sites like that pull in a ton of money. Don't know why else MySpace, Facebook and some other sites would've sold for hundreds of millions or billions of dollars. I don't see where the money is either lol. Facebook has like, a Marketplace thing which could net them some profit, and of course, ads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waynewex Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 Incase you haven't noticed bastones, the entire stock market is down ;p. (Although Google started going down before the 'crash'.) Woop woop, not today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CroNiX Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 At that price couldn't they just buy out their ISP and not worry about paying themselves? They still have to purchase their bandwidth, just like ISPs, from somewhere. Unless they own their own pipes too... not likely... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dropfaith Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 google owns the internet. i mean really picture it in your head google closes all google services disapear whats the outlook for the internet? i mean yea the internet wont go away but i bet alot of users would.. Google has completly changed the internet as we know it without them who knows where we would go.. 1 Million a day isnt that insane of a total for them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CroNiX Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 Naw...google isn't the only search engine out there...if it disappeared people would just use msn, yahoo, askjeeves, or any of the other hundred search engines. The internet functioned just fine before google. Sure, people are just used to the name so thats what most use. It would be great for my business if google died as I would have to redo some clients work that relies on google APIs. Google is just the best at what they do...but I wouldn't say they own the net, no more than I would say Microsoft owns computers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 Read an article in the paper today that said Google pulls in $16.3 billion USD from ads. x.x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dropfaith Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 if i did my math right thats only 44,657,534 a day i think a million in bandwidth is well within reach Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewooleymammoth Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 At that price couldn't they just buy out their ISP and not worry about paying themselves? They still have to purchase their bandwidth, just like ISPs, from somewhere. Unless they own their own pipes too... not likely... the internet is a series of tubes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamez Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 I am allowed up to 5010gb in Bandwidth from my webhost. http://uploads.lamezz.com/w00t.bmp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dropfaith Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 what host? and at what cost? im currently not paying and my server allows anything i want to do (my Business partner co owns a server company) but you never know how long they will be able to support us using the service for free. plus it might come in handly for customers and such to get good hosting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamez Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 Servage for $6.45 a month. who is your host? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dropfaith Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 http://sdweb.net/ they dont really have a website for no reason at all too they are all more then qualified to build one.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 Lamez, I challenge you to use it all. Just write a script that will repeatedly download large files thus use both a lot of space and bandwidth. Damn overselling companies. Only reason why they can sell it is because they know that people don't use it. Like with airplanes, sometimes they expect that not everybody will show up so they oversell. When everybody then actually shows up they're screwed. It's when you actually need to use a lot of bandwidth like YouTube does that it gets really expensive. I mean it's pretty easy to sell you a bazillion-million-gillion gigabytes because I know you won't even use all that within the fair use/tos conditions. Check this out in your TOS for instance: Subscriber acknowledges that the nature of the service furnished and the initial rates and charges have been communicated to Subscriber. Subscriber is aware that the Company may prospectively change the specified rates and charges from time to time. The promotional offer is contingent upon Company achieving and maintaining its cost of service goals including but not limited to rates charged to company by its suppliers. If they suddenly cannot live up to what they've promised then they can just drop the rates on all accounts. There is nothing you can do about that because you agreed to the TOS when you signed up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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