How Big Is YouTube?

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Title	How Big Is YouTube?
Author	Ethan
Original Link	https://ethanzuckerman.com/2023/12/22/how-big-is-youtube/#comments
Date Last Highlighted	2024-01-02
Date Published	2023-12-22
Type	articles
Source	reader

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guess at random URLs and see if there are videos there.

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We’re starting some experiments to understand how the videos YouTube recommends differ from the “average” YouTube video – YouTube likes recommending videos with at least ten thousand views, while the median YouTube video has 39 views.

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videos with 10,000 or more views are roughly 4% of our data set, though they represent the lion’s share of views of the YouTube platform.

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