What they said only holds true because the growth continues so that the old volume of videos doesn't matter as much since there's so many more new ones each year compared to the previous year. So the question is more about whether or not it will hold true in the long term, not today
replyThe framing here is really weird. The volume of videos increasing isn't 'growth.' Videos are inventory for Youtube. They're only good when people (without adblocks!) actually watch them.
replyGrowth in this context is that there are a larger volume of videos each year. So each year a single video is exponentially a smaller and smaller percentage of the total.
replyYeah and the math doesn't check out.
replyFor example, if in year N youtube has f(N) new video. Let assume f(N) = cN^2. It's a crazy rate of growth. It's far better than the real world Youtube, which grew rather linearly.
But the rate of "videos that are older than 5 years" is still faster than that, because it would be cubic instead of quadratic. Unless the it's really exponential (it isn't), "videos that are older than 5 years" will always surpass "new videos this year" eventually.
> Unless the it's really exponential (it isn't), "videos that are older than 5 years" will always surpass "new videos this year" eventually.
replySuch a weird strawman argument that you are making up. You've over thought this so much that you are missing the forest from the trees
Yes. a video no one watches is a waste of storage.
reply^ This.
replyI assume it's an economics issue. As long as they continue making money off the uploads to a higher extent than it costs for storage, it works out for them.
replyDo they make a profit nowadays
replyLikely yes, with a margin of perhaps 38%
replyI wonder if anyone has ever compiled a list of channels with abnormally large numbers of videos? For example this guy has over 14,000:
replyThere is a channel with 2 million videos:
https://www.youtube.com/@RoelVandePaar/videos
One with 4 million videos:
https://www.youtube.com/@NameLook
replyNameLook puts a whole new meaning to "low effort videos"
replyFirst one has transcribed stack overflow to YT by the look of it
replyI guess I should have mentioned I wasn't looking for automated/AI-generated videos.
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