What is the average size of Linus' videos?

[hak4fun]

 what is the average size of a Linustechtips video? Because I was thinking, why don't they post there videos on here instead? Try slowing pushing away from youtube so they have full control? Is each video too big so the hosting required to run it not worth it?

[hak4fun]

Size doesn't matter if a ton of bandwidth is required by lots of watchers

Well that was kind of part of my question. the bigger the video, the more bandwidth needed.

[STRMfrmXMN]

 what is the average size of a Linustechtips video? Because I was thinking, why don't they post there videos on here instead? Try slowing pushing away from youtube so they have full control? Is each video too big so the hosting required to run it not worth it?

It's not the size that matters it's how you use it.

[Guest]

11"

 

 

Wait, what?

[gozzygozborn]

1080p

[Prastupok]

 what is the average size of a Linustechtips video? Because I was thinking, why don't they post there videos on here instead? Try slowing pushing away from youtube so they have full control? Is each video too big so the hosting required to run it not worth it?

 

If I had to guess, it's probably several gigabytes per upload, but then youtube compressed it a lot.

 

Stop getting technical and answer my question.

Are they not hosting there videos themselves because of the cost of hosting, or for another reason?

 

Because the audience that would actually get it would be much smaller.

[hak4fun]

Not if streamed...

Stop getting technical and answer my question.

Are they not hosting there videos themselves because of the cost of hosting, or for another reason?

[Uwillparish]

Well, Linus is short, so wouldn't his videos be small too?

Isn't it @Slick? 

[Cactu]

It's not the size that matters it's how you use it.

Why..... You know what I mean

[GlassBomb]

Well that was kind of part of my question. the bigger the video, the more bandwidth needed.

 

They don't have that kind of bandwidth. Not even close. Try having 6 million people view your content in a month. Say that every user need 200 MB for each video watched. And that 250k people watched the video the first 36 hours (Looking at the XPS 13 recovery video). 200 x 250,000 = 50,000,000 MB. Or if you want, 50 TB worth of data, in just 36 hours. And to be fair, those are probably low numbers, and not even counting views to older videos. And when new videos are released.

[hak4fun]

If I had to guess, it's probably several gigabytes per upload, but then youtube compressed it a lot.

 

 

 

 

Because the audience that would actually get it would be much smaller.

Well they wouldn't just STOP posting to youtube. that would be a horrible idea. but slowing moving over to there own platform. And for example only posted twice a week on youtube they would have more control over there content, sponsors, they could actually fix things like viewers not seeing the new content.

[TheMidnightNarwhal]

6 INCHES

[Prastupok]

Well they wouldn't just STOP posting to youtube. that would be a horrible idea. but slowing moving over to there own platform. And for example only posted twice a week on youtube they would have more control over there content, sponsors, they could actually fix things like viewers not seeing the new content.

 

Then they have to have separate content, if some are using spots, the others aren't. Plus bandwidth.

[iPhoenix]

Bandwidth is the biggest concern.  Having that much storage and having ubiquitous worldwide access to that data is a problem.  As a point of reference, NCIX exports at 50Mbit/sec as per the YouTube guidelines for users with "corporate bandwidth".  This unlocks the best quality on the YouTube conversion process so that you see minimal artifacting and compression in the final result. 

 

NCIX videos regularly reached over 1 gigabyte and those are much shorter than Linus' content.  Not to mention the larger file size for 60fps content (like channelsuperfun)

[PhilBoisvert]

 what is the average size of a Linustechtips video? Because I was thinking, why don't they post there videos on here instead? Try slowing pushing away from youtube so they have full control? Is each video too big so the hosting required to run it not worth it?

Posting on here bring them absolutly no revenue. What YouTube is better at then anything else is bringing new viewer. They have big sponsor contract because of the number of view the generate on YT. They could absolutly not have those if the video was posted on a random forum (the masses that are on youtube don't know and probably don't care about this forum the one post wonders on the giveaway are there to prove it)

[Sauron]

let's say 1 gb each. The amount of storage space and server bandwidth they'd need to service the amount of traffic they get on youtube would be impossible without google's bank.

[KirbyTech]

**All numbers are not indicitive for Linustechtips and his other channels. They are only educated guesses. **

 

Each video is likely 3-4 gb. Now thing you have to render all videos in 360p 480p 720p 1080p 1440p 4k so double that storage, not place that in 3+ places around the world for better connection. Then there is bandwidth, which it not too expensive if you buy it through a A level ISP but you can't do that without your own datacenters so you need to buy data through them which is 10x more at least (for the cheaper one) Since you will be in someone else's datacenter you need rack space. You also need web servers and lots more. I thought about the idea when they were talking about moving to Vessel. I looked into it, and well it would have cost (using social blade view numbers and youtube stats on the average view duration for all videos from top 1000 channels, then guessing the mean resolution would be 720 at YT bitrate) over $5000 per month if you don't include hardware costs.**

[Shan-Dysigns]

6 INCHES

 

It's funnier when you have a long pause after saying "6 inches" and then add "from the ground".

[harrynowl]

LTT doesn't have the bandwidth of their own to provide that content to their many thousands of watchers. It'd be like using iPlayer.

[Zambonie]

 

What you see from the main page.

 

You dirty perverts

 

Other then that

The media is on youtube. if they where to move here, we would notice a significant amount of decrease in the amount of watchers gained per day/year etc, and just possibly overall watchers.

[Get I.T. Connected]

It's not the size that matters it's how you use it.

Had to know that this was coming

[GodSpoon]

6 INCHES

 

 

Its funny because I misread the title and was going to say something like that bahahaha

[Mikeyj426]

Between 8 and 15 mins but what matters is how much bandwith would be required to serve everyone trying to play the video.

[IMPERIUS]

7 inches

Get it?