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Google claims YouTube is 10x as popular as Netflix or Facebook video, and approaching TV 2017-02-28 12:56:40 Post No. 116024
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Google claims YouTube is 10x as popular as Netflix or Facebook video, and approaching TV
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2017-02-28 12:56:40
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http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/27/youtube-viewers-reportedly-watch-1-billion-hours-of-videos-a-day--us-tv-viewers-watch-125-billion-and-dropping.html
>The amount of video that YouTube users around the world watch each day is now almost as much as all U.S. TV watching combined, the company said on Monday.
>The Wall Street Journal first reported the news.
>The amount of video footage viewed on YouTube is growing and passed 1 billion hours a day, YouTube said in a blog post. Nielsen data shows the 1.25 billion hours of TV watched and recorded in America each day is shrinking, the Journal reported.
>The viewership numbers on YouTube mark a 10-fold increase since 2012, the company told the Journal, and compare to 116 million hours streamed on Netflix and 100 million hours streamed on Facebook.
>YouTube's viewership is a key metric for analysts that cover Alphabet's stock, as it is one of the few big streams of money that is not disclosed in Google's earnings. The Journal reports that it generated $4 billion in revenue and broke even in 2014, citing anonymous sources familiar with the division's finances.
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Google strokes it's dick while not mentioning that random videos and channels aren't the same as cable television or a website with movies/television shows.
Way to go Google!
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>1 billion hours a day
90% of which is complete garbage
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>>116025
10 hour epic sax guy streaming to my phone has the exact same value as watching house of cards! Numbers are numbers!
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>>116024
a fair bit of the pirated shit posted up on viooz and the like is actually hosted by google and presumably somewhere up on youtube anyway
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>>116122
Its not about measurement, hence the dick stroking comment >>116025
Its about different demographics and services. Youtube isnt competing directly with TV, the services are wildly different, and the fact is people dont go to youtube to watch movies and shows. They go there to stream music videos and epic rap battles.
Are they similar entertainment services? Yes. But the products they offer are different and that matters. As TV shrinks (and it should good riddance) remember that viewers
A) have probably already been using TV and youtube meaning the death of TV may not even increase youtube viewership
B) Are more likely to just move to paid streaming services that offer similar content
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Justin Bieber's Baby is not the same as Friends on Netflix.
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