In 2005 or so some guy in a bar was moaning how stupid the idea of YouTube was. "Who the fark is going to watch cats falling off handrails all day?"

Can't help but wonder how his investments are doing these days.

ShawnDoc: As far as I know, YouTube is still a gigantic money pit at Google. They've yet to figure out how to make a profit with it.

Huh. I guess I confused "hordes of cash" with "popularity."

SOPA! PIPA! ACTA!

gilgigamesh: 13-yr old girls lip syncing to Katy Perry songs

Or as I like to call it, "porn".

I hate you because you beat me to that. Jerkface.

DanZero: SOPA! PIPA! ACTA!

Well, on the upside, SOPA would speed up the Internet.

Twice Banned: DanZero: SOPA! PIPA! ACTA!

Well, on the upside, SOPA would speed up the Internet.

Yes, no where to go and nothing to see, fast.

dickfreckle: ShawnDoc: As far as I know, YouTube is still a gigantic money pit at Google. They've yet to figure out how to make a profit with it.

Huh. I guess I confused "hordes of cash" with "popularity."

That's old media thinking that is. There are fewer than 20 people who make more than 100K on YouTube content.

ShawnDoc: As far as I know, YouTube is still a gigantic money pit at Google. They've yet to figure out how to make a profit with it.

You need to be able to down-vote videos until they disappear, or something. Really. It needs to be censored. There's just way too much stuff on there. How can their freaking servers stand it?

dickfreckle: In 2005 or so some guy in a bar was moaning how stupid the idea of YouTube was. "Who the fark is going to watch cats falling off handrails all day?"

Can't help but wonder how his investments are doing these days.

He has an exciting opportunity for you. Do you have time Thursday night for a presentation?

ShawnDoc: As far as I know, YouTube is still a gigantic money pit at Google. They've yet to figure out how to make a profit with it.

$1.7 Billion. I'm still mystified. The main problem with Google video at that point was that they made the default size way too big and the videos looked like crap. Would it really have been that hard to make the damn videos smaller and add an easy way to comment or whatever the hell else it was missing?

i can never get enough videos of young girls lip syncing, its awesome.

i wonder if they know i fap to it....

Talking about annoyng videos, now we have those attention whores, they do one channel for video responses, one for dancing, another for lyp-sincing, one to vlog and so on and on. I remember days where they did that live action opening for the simpsons, i cant believe people thought "i cant find the video, must upload this one myself" and then it was trending for days

But if someday youtube decide to clean up i suggest they start with anime music videos (specially the ones that used linkin park) and final fantasy 7 videos with the song from the end of the film

Bacontastesgood: ShawnDoc: As far as I know, YouTube is still a gigantic money pit at Google. They've yet to figure out how to make a profit with it.

$1.7 Billion. I'm still mystified. The main problem with Google video at that point was that they made the default size way too big and the videos looked like crap. Would it really have been that hard to make the damn videos smaller and add an easy way to comment or whatever the hell else it was missing?

FWIW, I liked Google Videos content and layout. It had it's issues, but I still used it as much as youtube.

Or, hell, maybe I'm just a google fanboy or something. I don't know.

The moderator is strapped to one of those chairs placed in front of one of those sets of hundreds and hundreds of TV screens and denied sleep.

Every minute, 60 hours of video is uploaded to Youtube, with 58 of those hours consisting of 13-yr old girls and grown men lip syncing to Katy Perry songs

My buddy singing "Firework".

some_beer_drinker: i can never get enough videos of young girls lip syncing, its awesome.

i wonder if they know i fap to it....

Oh, they know. It's why they do it. Or do you suppose they don't read the comments?

brigid_fitch: 60 hours of video every minute...In other words, you're uploading one hour of video to YouTube every second"

We really needed an explanation of how much 60 hours a minute is? Wow, that's as many as six tens. And that's terrible.

That's as many as 74, 9/11's.

Every time I see one of these articles about how much video is being uploaded to YouTube, I wonder how much per minute is being deleted from YouTube. Amount uploaded minus amount deleted would give a more accurate picture of how fast the site is growing.

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Is this the thread where we AW our channels.

Ready to be bored?
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I have to wonder how much of it is removed from public view eventually though. Which does raise an interesting quandry:

There are people out there with shelves filled to capacity with VHS tapes, now sure the majority of that is going to be things that we can buy on DVD (Quantum Leap, etc.) but some of it is going to be pilots or other things which were aired once, never released on a pre-recorded format and never broadcast again.

When that appears on YouTube it gets some views, not millions of them but some, then is often yanked via a DMCA request.

That's fine as it stands. I've no problems with content creators wanting to defend their rights.

But their are thousands of shows & movies that were popular in the 80's & 90's but not popular enough to push out continual DVD pressings of (B-Movies like Moontrap, Nightfliers, cartoons like Galaxy High, MASK, etc.) or hell just not popular at all but a few people maybe liked it. And half of this is just sat in some production companies vault somewhere yeah?

So why not dump it in an editing suite for a quick tart up, do the things the fans do and cut the intro to it's own video and dump it on YouTube where it can make the occasional drop of money from adverts versus it languishing in a vault somewhere making nothing?

Yep I'd sit through a 10s advert to watch some crap I thought was cool as a kid when I'm in the mood quite happily. It'd mean I didn't need so much physical storage at home to cater to my desire for a full VOD system. So... why don't they do this?