More users are watching YouTube on TV than mobile

Post by uuddlrlrbaba » Tue, Feb 11, 2025, 5:05 PM UTC

diggan wrote: post #20

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I turn it on at night and listen to 8-10 hours of sleep sounds.

What are "sleep sounds"? Like sounds of others sleeping? Do you experience silence anything during the day or any other time? I couldn't imagine having sounds while trying to sleep, it's my quiet time when I can fully focus on what's inside my head, and outside sounds tend to be distracting. But still interesting how we all are very different, no right or wrong :)

Post by diggan » Tue, Feb 11, 2025, 5:11 PM UTC

uuddlrlrbaba wrote: post #72

diggan wrote: post #20

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What are "sleep sounds"? Like sounds of others sleeping? Do you experience silence anything during the day or any other time? I couldn't imagine having sounds while trying to sleep, it's my quiet time when I can fully focus on what's inside my head, and outside sounds tend to be distracting. But still interesting how we all are very different, no right or wrong :)

Yes, the sounds of intense sleep apnea. Typically recording 4 or 5 people snoring overlaid into a harmony of sleep sound

Post by dark-star » Tue, Feb 11, 2025, 5:29 PM UTC

diggan wrote: post #64

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yeah, don't know, it was just an example. People stream YouTube while doing other things (playing, working, coding) all the time. I didn't want to put too much focus on the "Let's Play" part, it was the first thing that came to my mind :) We have a handful of coders in our company and it's rare to enter their offices and not see something playing on the second screen.

> yeah, don't know, it was just an example. People stream YouTube while doing other things (playing, working, coding) all the time. I didn't want to put too much focus on the "Let's Play" part, it was the first thing that came to my mind :) That'd be very distracting to me, programming is (usually) a deep focus thing for me, having moving pictures right next to where I work would lead me to getting nothing done :P In…

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Feb 11, 2025, 5:38 PM UTC

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nonethewiser wrote: post #54

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Terrible headline - the article says nothing about users. It does not link to Youtubes finding that TV is overtaking mobile. That news is here, and it's by WATCH TIME, not user count as claimed. https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/our-big-bets-for-2025/ I think TV>Mobile for watch time is less surprising because of the nature of content you'd watch on the TV (longer form, background stuff). User count would be surpri…

Fair points. I'm still surprised at how strong television viewership remains, but my guess is that is poor priors on my part? Specifically to youtube, I am also a bit surprised at it being used heavily on televisions. It is not a pleasant experience there. I have a hard time on phone, but at least there the popup keyboard is a bit more usable. Granted, saying that, it occurs to me that i don't actually know the usage…

Post by techjamie » Tue, Feb 11, 2025, 6:21 PM UTC

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Not to mention people falling asleep means that all ads will play unskipped, regardless of length. That means they have data that non-zero amounts of people are watching the whole of the extremely long skippable ads that get placed (more than once I've seen 90+ minute ads appear).

Muted ads playing to the sleeping. Great business for youtube, not so great for the advertiser. (people who use youtube as a sleep aid - don't you get woken up by ads?)