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Youtube serves a billion views a day
YOUTUBE HAS ANNOUNCED that it is now serving one billion videos a day to clip-happy Internet users.
Chad Hurley, chief executive and co-founder of YouTube, said in a blog post entitled Y,000,000,000uTube that the milestone represented a great moment in the firm's short history.
"Three years ago today [YouTube co-founder] Steve [Chen] and I stood in front of our offices and jokingly crowned ourselves the 'burger kings' of media," read the post.
"We'd just made headlines by joining with Google in our shared goal of organising the world's information (in our case video) and making it easily and quickly accessible to anyone, anywhere.
"Today I'm proud to say that we have been serving well over a billion views a day on YouTube. This is great moment in our short history and we owe it all to you."
Hurley credits a number of factors to his firm's success, including a commitment to two basic principles that he said had become fundamental tenants in the world of online video. These are that videos should load and play quickly, and be hosted on an open platform.
"We wanted to create a place where anyone with a video camera, a computer and an internet connection can share their life, art and voice with the world, and in many cases they can make a living from doing so," he said.
"There are now more ways than ever to make and consume content, and more of you are looking to turn your hobby into a real business. We're working hard to keep up with the fast pace of technology to bring you everything you would expect from the world's largest video site." µ
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That's the big question, along with ... when will it break even.
It's three noughts short, that's the fake billion people have started using because a real billion is too high a number to reach. Still, I don't envy YouTube's bandwidth bill at the end of a month.
...all served up with a large helping of adverts.
Could this possibly be PR in the face of the whole Viacom debacle? I wonder.
The number one billion has two definitions, one being used here in the UK and one elsewhere.
One billion = 10^9, i.e. 1 followed by 9 zeros. As this is an English site, the definition is correct.
If this site was based elsewhere in the world where the Long Scale is used, then you'd be correct in saying that one billion = 10^12.
Have a read on Long and Short Scales
First, it's a billion views, not people, big difference there, and a billion is equal to 10^9 in English speaking countries as far as I know.
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So what? it's a place for lifeless retards with no life of their own or a boring life without any excitements... like no children or family and they probably visit the prostitute every now and again to let off some steam, as it were.
Youtube and facebook, these are places for retards to hang out. As for tweeter, well, like cam-moron said, it's for twits and twats.
These same people are probably unemployed and on benefits, the same people that waste their life watching other peoples lives on things like big brother and some other uninteresting, boring soaps, mostly unattractive mothers those that are a little on the chunky side.
I will never join the retards group, even if just to make a political point.
There are lots of sheeps out there and very few shepherds. Pity.
The society we live in is indeed ever-changing and as such I am very amused to find that some individuals here actually know their maths, congratulations.
I have visited the website mentioned here, and I believe it is a handful of filth to say the very least; mentally deficient undisciplined youths with mobile phones and much free time in their hands assaulting and causing malice, vice and sin upon innocent individuals, absolutely unacceptable!
They commit this while other youths watch in awe, and in good time, they will enact it themselves. Like the saying goes where the donkey goes, its arse always follows.
They post it on youtube where like-minded, uneducated, unruly, Cannabis smoking, drug-dealing, anti-social vandals retrieve some sort of sadistic pleasure from viewing it and because the traffic and amount of data uploaded is high it is very hard to police so even the paedophiles get a easy ride here, outrageous! Not to mention the more views it gets the more credit you earn encouraging more daring activities next time around.
I am rather the Old School type and would not follow on like a mindless zombie, places like twitter, youtube and facebook (and other social networking sites) are for losers who've no friends and/or girlfriend, they are probably very lonely and "Internet Tough Guy".
"YouTube" - you mean "IdiotTube"...