With 200M daily users, Giphy will soon test sponsored GIFs

Re:With 200M daily users, Giphy will soon test sponsored GIFs by b212 on Monday July 31, 2017 @04:46PM (#14895747)

200M users, 20 MB per user daily (optimistically) gives 4 petabytes per day. I'd say the average user transfer might be way higher in reality so we're talking here dual digit petabytes on daily basis. How much will it cost you on Vultr, Digital Ocean or OVH? I'm asking out of curiosity because I'm not much into hosting, but I think it might be quite expensive after all? ;)

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Re:With 200M daily users, Giphy will soon test sponsored GIFs by api on Monday July 31, 2017 @04:51PM (#14895795)

You really think 200M people are transferring 20MB/day of gifs?

If your numbers really are accurate then it underscores the insanity of the valuation. If the costs are intrinsically high then you'd need a high value advertising niche to make this profitable.

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Re:With 200M daily users, Giphy will soon test sponsored GIFs by b212 on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @03:10AM (#14898476)

I think including bots (like Slack's /giphy) we're easily talking petabytes here.

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