Malcolm Gladwell: Is free the future?

Re:Malcolm Gladwell: Is free the future? by dantheman on Monday June 29, 2009 @06:04AM (#678734)

I remember reading that the YouTube bandwidth costs cited in this article were way out of wack and beard no semblance to reality. Has anyone seen any updates on those figures? Are they, in fact, correct?

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Re:Malcolm Gladwell: Is free the future? by akamaka on Monday June 29, 2009 @08:00AM (#678819)

My figures:

100.5 million unique viewers in Oct 2008. Average of 53.5 views per user that month. (source: http://www.businessinsider.com/2008/12/youtube-hits-100-mill...) Average video size, 10mb.

100.5m * 53.5 * 10 / 1024 = 52m GB served.

At a generous price of 5 cents a gigabyte, that works out to about $2.5 million a month, or $31.5 million in 2008.

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Re:Malcolm Gladwell: Is free the future? by jonknee on Monday June 29, 2009 @06:42PM (#679836)

That doesn't factor in peering, Google is in a ton of data centers and almost every major ISP peers with them (they'd be stupid not to with all the outgoing traffic going to them).

Either way the Credit Suisse estimate was way off.

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Re:Malcolm Gladwell: Is free the future? by jussij on Monday June 29, 2009 @08:36AM (#678845)

IMHO Youtube is doing nothing more than buring money.

Eventually the money will run out and the flame will die.

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