What is the size of YouTube? How huge is YouTube?

Must be in TB .. :laugh: or may be more than that.. As they having many hd videos and surely it occupies lots of space.

Ah Anand, you are here too? ;) Nice to see you!
Well mate, what happens by saying only hundreds of videos? There are millions of them there. I had downloaded some 300-400 clippings sometime back. It is certainly humongous.

He he.. Yes abhi.. Nice to see you here too.

Well, Youtube is one of product from Google now. So we can expect anything big from them. ;)

Rightly said. Google rules the internet and whatever they do is larger than life size. I am sure, the same is the case about YouTube too.

Very strange question Abhijit, i think the server will have a huge memory space as used for Google. :)

I was watching the highlights of the yesterday's match between India and England on YouTube. I saw that there were different versions of highlights. Some were of 14 minutes, some were of 18 minutes while others were bigger still. I regularly visit YouTube to search and watch different videos. This is when a thought struck me. What is the size of YouTube? The way we measure our hard disks and know the size in MBs, GBs, etc, what about YouTube?

It reminds me of a question about which i read sometime ago, "How big is the internet."? The vastness and enormity can't be measured in the known units. Some one has to find a new unit. Till then let's be content with the answer , " Very Biiiiiiiiiiii........gggggg..............?". Ok ?

Very strange question Abhijit, i think the server will have a huge memory space as used for Google. :)

Oh, it's a strange question :woohoo: I didn't know it. Anyways, I was really curious about that 'memory space'. The way I am getting my hard disk full with each passing day, I wonder how the YouTube people manage it.

I was watching the highlights of the yesterday's match between India and England on YouTube. I saw that there were different versions of highlights. Some were of 14 minutes, some were of 18 minutes while others were bigger still. I regularly visit YouTube to search and watch different videos. This is when a thought struck me. What is the size of YouTube? The way we measure our hard disks and know the size in MBs, GBs, etc, what about YouTube?

It reminds me of a question about which i read sometime ago, "How big is the internet."? The vastness and enormity can't be measured in the known units. Some one has to find a new unit. Till then let's be content with the answer , " Very Biiiiiiiiiiii........gggggg..............?". Ok ?

This is an acceptable answer. We do not really know too much about it and we will certainly have to coin some new units specially for this purpose. Even I had heard the question you mentioned. Yes, right, it's way tooooooooooooo bigggggggggggggggggg :S :woohoo:

Must be in TB .. :laugh: or may be more than that.. As they having many hd videos and surely it occupies lots of space.

tuberculosis :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Now if I search you tube see new bollywood movies, I find old Hindi movies in the name of English Vinglish, Talaash and Burfi :angry: :laugh: :laugh:
surprisingly all those movies are 'Janwar' of 90's staring - Akshay Kumar Karishma.
similarly we get many versions of same video clippings and songs too.....
now it's the time of jukebox :silly: :silly:
a lot of fun with youtube :unsure:

I haven't observed as much as you have, but even if there are different versions of the same clippings, ultimately, it occupies some space or the other, isn't it? But I guess, let's enjoy and have fun there on YouTube, instead of going into all these technicalities. B)

I haven't observed as much as you have, but even if there are different versions of the same clippings, ultimately, it occupies some space or the other, isn't it? But I guess, let's enjoy and have fun there on YouTube, instead of going into all these technicalities. B)

of course, different space thus wasting google's memory and our time B) B)

I haven't observed as much as you have, but even if there are different versions of the same clippings, ultimately, it occupies some space or the other, isn't it? But I guess, let's enjoy and have fun there on YouTube, instead of going into all these technicalities. B)

Yes, that's it. If it gives you joy, enjoy.Why bother about size? let's leave it to You tube itself.

I haven't observed as much as you have, but even if there are different versions of the same clippings, ultimately, it occupies some space or the other, isn't it? But I guess, let's enjoy and have fun there on YouTube, instead of going into all these technicalities. B)

of course, different space thus wasting google's memory and our time B) B)

For us, that might be as a waste of Google's memory. But don't forget, they are earning huge through that and importantly, they know how to manage it. So, I guess, they are doing fine.

I haven't observed as much as you have, but even if there are different versions of the same clippings, ultimately, it occupies some space or the other, isn't it? But I guess, let's enjoy and have fun there on YouTube, instead of going into all these technicalities. B)

Yes, that's it. If it gives you joy, enjoy.Why bother about size? let's leave it to You tube itself.

I may be the last person to get bothered about the size. But I was and still am curious about the size. It's just the question of calming the curiosity. After all, it's the mother of knowledge.

Once I read somewhere that YT gets more than a billion page views a day. With that stats in comparison, they can earn 3.5 billion USD approx from YT alone. Ofcourse it's a wild guess, you need to consider the costs of maintaining, content author payments etc into consideration.

And size, there is no rough figure but you can see the stats here
http://www.youtube.com/t/press_statistics

they will tell you alone how many exabytes of storage passed between users and youtube servers.

Once I read somewhere that YT gets more than a billion page views a day. With that stats in comparison, they can earn 3.5 billion USD approx from YT alone. Ofcourse it's a wild guess, you need to consider the costs of maintaining, content author payments etc into consideration.

And size, there is no rough figure but you can see the stats here
http://www.youtube.com/t/press_statistics

they will tell you alone how many exabytes of storage passed between users and youtube servers.

Thanks for the link.. It contains some huge numbers.. :woohoo:

Once I read somewhere that YT gets more than a billion page views a day. With that stats in comparison, they can earn 3.5 billion USD approx from YT alone. Ofcourse it's a wild guess, you need to consider the costs of maintaining, content author payments etc into consideration.

And size, there is no rough figure but you can see the stats here
http://www.youtube.com/t/press_statistics

they will tell you alone how many exabytes of storage passed between users and youtube servers.

Billion page views a day :S That's quite a huge number. And yes, I contribute around 40-50 pages view of those 1 billion :P
Anyways, I haven't still viewed the stats ( the link's still opening). Even if that's a guess, it gives some idea for sure. Thanks for the link.

Once I read somewhere that YT gets more than a billion page views a day. With that stats in comparison, they can earn 3.5 billion USD approx from YT alone. Ofcourse it's a wild guess, you need to consider the costs of maintaining, content author payments etc into consideration.

And size, there is no rough figure but you can see the stats here
http://www.youtube.com/t/press_statistics

they will tell you alone how many exabytes of storage passed between users and youtube servers.

Thanks for the link.. It contains some huge numbers.. :woohoo:

Yes, Anand, I just now saw the details and there was one word everywhere - million/millions, million/millions, what a program! :ohmy:

Youtube is big enough to get it stored in your hard disk. Youtube has many videos starting from fashion beauty tips to politics and sports. All kinds of tutorial videos and entertainment stuffs can be seen. It has many things.

Youtube is big enough to get it stored in your hard disk. Youtube has many videos starting from fashion beauty tips to politics and sports. All kinds of tutorial videos and entertainment stuffs can be seen. It has many things.

Really, is YouTube so small that it can be stored on my hard disk? I think, you meant to say that it isn't that big. I am sure you meant it that way. I am talking about the entire YouTube when I asked its size.I read that about 72 hours of videos are uploaded every minute, if I am not wrong. I will have to buy thousands of laptops and computers and it still won't suffice to store YouTube :woohoo: