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Re: YouTube Down

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Post by augusto-moura »

mr_toad wrote: post #32
augusto-moura wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe for other types of service yes, I find difficult to plug a alternative to YouTube, other type of streaming services maybe? Netlfix etc

Vimeo is my first stop when I can’t get it on YouTube.

The problem is that most of my subscribed channels are not in Vimeo, so I lose a lot of meaningful content

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Post by soheil »

jtchang wrote: post #23

Was wondering so looked up how much YouTube lost per second. > YouTube ads generated $15.15 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2019. So plugged into wolfram alpha: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/ ? i=15.15+billion+dollars+per+number+of+seconds+in+a+year They lose about $480 per second or $1.7MM per hour. Yikes.

Also plus the cost of losing users due to long term adverse effects of this incident.

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Post by jacobwilliamroy »

drilldrive wrote: post #35
jtchang wrote: post #23

Was wondering so looked up how much YouTube lost per second. > YouTube ads generated $15.15 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2019. So plugged into wolfram alpha: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/ ? i=15.15+billion+dollars+per+number+of+seconds+in+a+year They lose about $480 per second or $1.7MM per hour. Yikes.

Why MM, is it the standard for million akin to "k" is for thousand?

MM looks like "million million" to me, which is the old standard for billion but nowadays a billion is just a thousand million and a million million is a trillion and I am constantly feeling frustrated about how wasteful we are with words for big numbers.

But I think in this context MM is a million.

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Post by augusto-moura »

Forge36 wrote: post #26
augusto-moura wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe for other types of service yes, I find difficult to plug a alternative to YouTube, other type of streaming services maybe? Netlfix etc

Vudu, Spotify, Pandora. I think there's a wide enough overlap that plenty of people could say "give us a try" when YouTube goes down.

Yeah... But you still don't get the content from the youtube creators that you follow, usually I go for youtube just to see a few selected channels

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Post by AnimalMuppet »

drilldrive wrote: post #35
jtchang wrote: post #23

Was wondering so looked up how much YouTube lost per second. > YouTube ads generated $15.15 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2019. So plugged into wolfram alpha: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/ ? i=15.15+billion+dollars+per+number+of+seconds+in+a+year They lose about $480 per second or $1.7MM per hour. Yikes.

Why MM, is it the standard for million akin to "k" is for thousand?

"M" is the roman numeral for thousand. It is therefore ambiguous. Especially when dealing with money, you really don't want a million to be confused with a thousand.
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