Youtube bandwidth cost = $1,000,000 per day
 

Youtube used more bandwidth in 2008 than the entire internet did in 2000 . Holy crap

Would love to see what just one of their datacenters looks like.

Amazing... where u get the source from btw?

crazy shit .. . ..

i thought tudou.com has long ago overtaken youtube in terms of bandwith usage and costs....

that is crazy

wjw.........

thas a liddle bit of muney

That's crazy.

I heard they are selling PR links for 100k per week though. Should even out. :)

sweet zombie jesus

wow... insane...

their bw cost indicates nothing , you'll have to estimate the bandwidth usage by guessing how much they pay per bit .

that's a lie , here's their real one

http://cache.gizmodo.com/gadgets/images/ww2_radios.jpg

the people commenting on that article are some of the stupidest know it all idiots I have ever encountered on a tech site

and I quote Billy Madison

"Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul. "

Tube Power

impressive

do you have source/link for that?

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

I agree :)

That's probably about as accurate as we'll ever know and somewhat correct... BUT of course we might never know the real figures keeping in mind that the company wants to portray itself as profitable, even if it skews grey areas like this.

This is not calculating costs of managed hosting, infrastructure, equipment, PEOPLE, etc... need I go on...? Their expenses are phenomenal. YouTube is make very small profit compared to it's big revenue numbers. They have yet to figure out how to channel all that traffic into a higher revenue model.

Probably the biggest contributor to YouTube's struggles is that it's dominant age group demographics are ages from 17-20... not a very profitable group of people with a lot of time on their hands AND who eat bandwidth like it's free caviar.... sounds familiar? Like adult tubes perhaps... LOL.

SmokeyTheBear's info might be reflected on this not so old article back in Mar 08.
h t t p : / / techland.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/03/25/youtube-looks-for-the-money-clip/
(sorry for not making it linkable... I'm not a big poster)


Peace,
Ben

Fuck me!

damn that's crazy !!!

holy holy shit

wa wa wee wa

everyone already knew this anyway 2c

I wonder what the ROI is.

Bandwidth is not a fucking problem, Imagine only the google crawlers how much bandiwdth are eating, html pages + images. They are scraping everything nothing is left.

shiiiiit... wonder if that is true!

It's the new game, MASSIVE MASSIVE and more MASSIVE!

Surfers still like small sites that cater to their special interest though.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Didn't know google were into radio broadcasting. They really have their hands on everything. :Oh crap

With a company as big as you tube, you'd think they would know about HostGators cheap virtual dedicated solutions... Only like $20/mo ... those idiots

:-D

:rollseyes

Unlimited bandwidth baby!!!!!

i doubt those figures are correct

amazing...

Yeah...kinda convienant that it is exactly 1 million.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Damn, thats some freaky shit!!!

me too...
whew did you get that info?

i've seen it, they use the same as Mojo Host and when Brad took us on a tour we also saw the YouTube Servers. not all of them i guess, but it's been already impressive enough. :thumbsup

WOW holy shit...

Good God

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